Elizabeth Schweizer

Artist and Educator currently working in Richmond, VA

New York, New York, United States

About

Fine artist, fabricator, and textile designer with experience fabricating and designing woven, knit, and sewn constructions. Interested and experienced in working with a variety of experimental materials and techniques. Contact for commissions and freelance inquiries. elizabethschweizer.com

Experience

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Fabricator at Misha Kahn
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Production Assistant + Soft Goods at Efdot Studio
    Sep 2020 - Oct 2020 · 2 mos

  • Summer Wheat Studio (5 mos)
    • Studio Technician
      Jul 2020 - Sep 2020 · 3 mos

    • Freelance Fabricator
      May 2020 - Sep 2020 · 5 mos

  • Windgate Fellow at Center for Craft
    May 2019 - May 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Recipient of a 15,000 grant for emerging artist with a a practice centered around craft. Through this grant I was able to continue my work developing and running art programming in an indigenous community in South Dakota as well as participate in several textile-specific artist residencies.