Elizabeth Asche Douglas
Material plays an important role in sculpture. Do you have a favorite?
Anything I can manipulate
Your inspiration, where exactly is that coming from?
A multitude of experiences and attitudes
Are you influenced by conversations, politics, stories, etc.?
All of these and more
Music plays a big role in some people’s lives, is it part of your art making?
I am a multi-media, multi- disciplinary artist
Anything I can manipulate
Your inspiration, where exactly is that coming from?
A multitude of experiences and attitudes
Are you influenced by conversations, politics, stories, etc.?
All of these and more
Music plays a big role in some people’s lives, is it part of your art making?
I am a multi-media, multi- disciplinary artist
Biography
Elizabeth "Betty"Asche Douglas, visual artist, musician and educator, earned a BFA degree in painting & design from Carnegie Mellon and an MA degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed additional graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught in high school and college, retiring as Professor and Head of Humanities & Fine Arts from Geneva College in 1996. She is artist/owner of Douglas Art Gallery, Rochester, PA. Her professional exhibiting record covers nearly six decades, beginning with an award in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 42nd Annual at the Carnegie Museum. She has won numerous awards, including Jurors’ Awards in the 64th Youngstown, OH, Area Artists Annual and the 2005 Appalachian Corridors Exhibition in Charleston, WV. In 2008 she was among 250 artists selected for an exhibition and catalog published to honor Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary. She was also one of 24 artists chosen statewide for the 2008-2010 traveling exhibition “Celebrating Visual Traditions, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In 2011 she was included in exhibitions at the American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh and the African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA. In 2012 she showed at the August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, The Southern Alleghenies Museum, Ligonier, PA and the African American Museum, Dallas, TX. From November 2013 through January 2014, her work was included in The New Collective at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. She was the featured artist in the 2014 Midland (PA) Arts Council’s Summer Gallery. In 2015, her work was included in the Society of Sculptors 80th Anniversary show at Seton Hill U. Since 2016, she has had works chosen for the National Arts & Heritage Exhibition at the Westmoreland County Museum, winning an award 2017. In 2016 she the only Beaver County artist with work selected for the annual Art of the State exhibition in the State Museum, Harrisburg. She won awards in Latrobe Art Center’s Mr. Rogers Regional Exhibition in 2017 and in the Merrick Masters at New Brighton’s historic Merrick Art Gallery in 2018. Her works are in public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad. She has served as curator or juror for many art shows. She received the 2006 Service to the Arts Award from the Guild Council of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. She has other civic and community awards to her credit as well, most recently the Rochester Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Community Service Award for 2016. In 2015, the Young Lawyers Division of the Beaver County Bar Association presented her with its community Service Award on Law Day. She has also received awards from the Beaver Valley Service Club, the African American History Organization and similar groups.