Description: elizabeth mather --- weaver, geographer, photographer, fiber artist, fiber arts
Welcome to my website. Here you will find information about three of my main passions; weaving, geography and photography. Occasionally, I post information about my other interests. Please, look around and feel free to contact me or leave comments through my contact page.
I received my BFA in Visual Arts with a major concentration in photography and a minor concentration in cyber arts from the University of Toledo in 1998. My adviser and mentor while at UT was Deborah Orloff, MFA . An exploration of my relationship with my Roman Catholic religion formed the basis of my work's content during my undergraduate studies. After completing my degree at UT, I spent a year studying and teaching photography at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana before deciding to pursue othe
My fascination with space and my desire to work in an environmentally beneficial capacity led me into graduate studies in geography and planning at the University of Toledo beginning in the fall of 2000. The research area I was most interested in was the Oak Openings Region of NW Ohio & SE Michigan and how conservation and restoration planning could benefit from the utilization of GIS and remote sensing technologies. During my studies, much of my class research, as well as my thesis, centered on this topic.