Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Driscoll Smith has been awarded a 2023 Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art as an Ellen Holtzman Fellow. This year-length fellowship supports dissertation research, writing, and dissertation-related travel for her dissertation, “Build/Live/Work: Artist-Built Environments and the Expanded Vernacular in the Twentieth Century,” which examines four self-taught artists who built combination home and studio sites at the nexus of shifting regional constructs and major socio-political changes. This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of The Henry Luce Foundation.

Her award and dissertation were also highlighted in Debra Herrick's article, "Rethinking the Term ‘Self-Taught’ ," Tne Current, UC Santa Barbara, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 08:30 AM.