Elizabeth Albert

Professor

Elizabeth Albert is a visual artist, writer, and curator based in Brooklyn, and an associate professor at St. John’s University in Queens, where she teaches in the Department of Core Studies and the Department of Art and Design. 

  

Professor Albert’s core specialty is the intersection of art, architecture, cities, coastlines, and environmental justice. First Year Seminar courses Art & Architecture in New York City, Art & Environment: Coastal New York, and Global Passport: Rome are built upon high impact investigative practices that draw connections between physical structures and locations, the context within which they were created, and their relevance to present concerns. Each course theme explores topics that form connections with a variety of disciplines.  

  

As a professor of studio art courses, Albert integrates the technical knowledge and discipline learned from her classical training with a love of art from all cultures, both historical and contemporary. She embraces traditional methodology, critical thinking, and creative development as essential components for forming a strong technical foundation, perceptual sophistication, and mental flexibility.  

  

She has received grants and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Furthermore Grants in Publishing, the MacDowell Colony, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., and the NEA/ Mid-Atlantic Arts Council. Her paintings and works on paper have been exhibited nationally and is in museum collections, including the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio the Naples Museum in Florida and the Boca Raton Museum in Florida. She is the author/editor of the critically acclaimed multi-disciplinary book, Silent Beaches, Untold Stories: New York City’s Forgotten Waterfront (Damiani).  

  

Professor Albert is actively engaged with environmental service as evidenced by volunteering with students doing environmental remediation with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy and NYC H2O. She has also served as co-chair of the Antiracist Action Committee (ARC) which has received an ACEI fellowship for research in inclusive teaching.  

  

Link to website including CV: https://elizabetalbert.wixsite.com/studio