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Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker originally from Charlottesville, VA and based in the American South. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. Her work has screened and been exhibited in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, Japan, Ecuador, Singapore, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain, Austria and Germany. Her film Proximity Study (Sight Lines) won the jury award for Best Experimental Film at New Orleans Film Festival in 2022. Elizabeth holds a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photography/Media from CalArts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She was Fall 2019 Visiting Faculty in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2015 she has been the Creative Producer for Arts in a Changing America and in 2020 worked on the launch of the Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice. She is currently co-editing an anthology with Roberta Uno and Daniela Alvarez entitled FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America (Duke University Press, 2024).