April 11, 2025
This interview with Beth Edwards was recorded at the Memphis Listening Lab on April 27, 2022.
Beth Edwards was born in Alabama and lives and works in Memphis. She received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and an MFA from Indiana University. Edwards has had an active 33-year career painting, exhibiting and teaching. She taught painting at the University of Memphis for 21 years and the University of Dayton for 12 years. Recent awards and honors include the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship; Distinguished Research Award from The University of Memphis; Arts Accelerator Grant, ArtsMemphis; Alumni Association Distinguished Achievement in the Creative Arts Award, University of Memphis; and the Emmett O’Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration from ArtsMemphis. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, institutions and organizations across the United States, including the Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; the Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago; Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; and the San Francisco International Fine Arts Exposition. She has had artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. She is represented by the David Lusk Gallery in Memphis and the Heidell Brooks Gallery in Charlotte.
