Professionally, Liz Chalfin is visual artist and art educator. She is founder and director and resident artist of Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, Massachusetts. Zea Mays Printmaking is a studio/workshop dedicated to research, education and collaborations in safer and non-toxic printmaking. Liz teaches workshops at Zea Mays and on the road at colleges and art centers regionally. She is also adjunct faculty in Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning graduate program. Liz exhibits her prints, drawings and artist’s books nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smith College Museum of Art, and Mortimer Rare Book Room as well as the Portland Museum of Art, the De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Boston Public Library. Liz works in etching, monotype, photopolymer, collograph and mixed media printmaking. She creates prints and artist’s books. Her imagery explores social, spiritual and psychological issues through the use of symbolism, figuration and abstraction. Liz is a member of the Boston Printmakers, the Monotype Guild of New England, Los Angeles Printmaking Society and the Southern Graphics Council. She is represented by Zea Mays Printmaking.