Elizabeth Driscoll Smith

Elizabeth Driscoll Smith is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art & Architecture Department at the University of California Santa Barbara, specializing in American art, craft, and material culture of the twentieth century. Her dissertation, “Build/Live/Work: Artist-Built Environments and the Expanded Vernacular in the Twentieth Century,” examines the ways artist-environment builders responded to new forms of mobility and movement in the postwar era. Elizabeth is a 2022-2023 Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.