Liz King is a mixed media artist and art educator who splits her time between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. She is currently at a stage of renewal in her life. Her current work reflects on her past decade and her experiences and struggles with health, age, and the grief from the loss of her spouse, mother, and sister. Re-evaluating the heavy encumbrance of the past decade, she transforms her experiences and emerges on a new path in her life.

Liz King was born in Dallas, TX, and raised by a family of educators and artists. She began cultivating her formal art skills in primary school in Fort Worth, Texas. She continued to East Texas State University in Commerce, Texas, in the 70s and then The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 80s. Her work is grounded in sculpture using clay and shifted to 2D mixed media exploration. At East Texas State University, she created clay sculptures influenced by the “ Funk” Movement and West Coast Ceramic Movement of the 70s and obtained her BFA (1975).

After graduating, she returned to her hometown, Fort Worth. She worked with Catholic Charities to help refugees from Cambodia, Afghanistan, and Ethiopia acclimate and thrive in the U.S. She met her future husband, who organized a local co-op and lifelong friends during her time with Catholic Charities. Through the lifelong connections she made at Catholic Charities, she and her husband gained the opportunity to travel the globe and experience the cultures of Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, and Cambodia. Her experience with different cultures was embedded into her being and nurtured her exploration of form, colors, and ideas.

With renewed vigor toward her artistic expression, she cultivated different skills and styles at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she completed an MFA (1987). In Chicago's diverse city neighborhoods and under the Chicago Imagist's tutelage, she further explored the expression of her ideas through slip casting, hand building, and mixed media. She cultivated expression of forms in sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media from Chicago during a two-year residency at the Banff School of Art and Design. She returned to Chicago as a regional portfolio consultant for SAIC. She traveled nationwide and was exposed to various fine art programs, new mediums, and styles. She eventually returned to Texas, where she taught foundational art classes at The University of Texas at Arlington, Weatherford College, and various community colleges. She transitioned to teaching advanced placement middle school and high school art in Fort Worth until her retirement in 2021. Retirement allowed Liz to renew her focus on her studio art. Since retirement, she assists Dallas artist Joey Brock in his studio and forges a new journey in studio art.