My work explores the intelligence of materials—ceramics, textiles, and paper—blurring the line between craft and contemporary art through illusion, transformation, and repurposing. Rooted in a Craftcore ethos and shaped by my background in cultural strategy, I approach making as a sustainable, resourceful form of communication that is both playful and serious.
Elizabeth Burke-Dain (b.1961, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an Oak Park-based artist and communications professional. She has enlivened the brands of some
of Chicago’s most storied cultural institutions with innovative marketing,
creative direction, and on-mission messaging. In the early 90s, she co-founded
the Around the Coyote arts festival, a city-wide art event that helped transform
the Wicker Park/Bucktown neighborhood into a national model for the
creative economy.
