Elizabeth Mahler Licence

Elizabeth Mahler Licence is a professional artist and educator whose practice focuses on photography and mixed media. The artist’s abstract photography work encaptures the simple and sometimes overlooked beauty of natural and artificial environments. Her mixed media work focuses on social and political issues. The artist grew up in Wisconsin before moving West, graduating from the Brooks Institute of Photography with a BA in Advertising/Illustration Photography. She is completing her BFA in Art Education from the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Licence was Co-Owner of Kanon Collective, a cooperative gallery in the Art District on Santa Fe in Denver, from 2012 to 2019. She has served on the Representative and Executive Council for the National and Colorado Art Education Association (NAEA/CAEA). She is a member of SPE (Society of Photographic Educators). She has been a juror and curator for numerous art competitions and exhibitions, including Scholastics Art Colorado, Youth Art Month, and the Denver Performing Arts Center. For the last five years, the artist has worked for Denver Public Schools in Special Education, working with students and their families that struggle with disabilities. Elizabeth Mahler Licence has exhibited her work in galleries, educational institutions, and other creative spaces in the United States for the last 25 years.