Charla Elizabeth

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Charla Freeman Elizabeth earned an A.B. in Art from Brown University and an M.Sc. in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. She is a two-time Pollock Krasner award recipient for her nature-referenced sculpture and recently had an artwork selected for inclusion in the permanent collection at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

Charla is an adjunct professor at USC in Los Angeles, CA, where she teaches Intermediate Drawing, Foundation Design, and Creating and Understanding Visuals. At UCLA, she lectures as part of the Visual and Performing Arts Education program, teaching aspiring arts educators to be culturally responsive and healing-centered in their work with diverse populations of students. She is also a Visual Arts Teacher/Mentor for Theatre of Hearts Youth First,  providing visual arts education for predominantly Black and Latinx students, including at-risk and incarcerated youth.

Charla's sculptures find their roots in organic forms and are created using natural materials (steel, aluminum, glass, wool, wood, and cotton). Finding value in nature and its feminine essence, she honors both in her artwork. At its essence, her work is about equity and balance.