Portland Chamber Orchestra features Liz Gill Neilson in The Creatures of Prometheus

Liz Gill Neilson is a painter, printmaker, and designer. In her recent work in painting and multimedia collaboration with musicians and storytellers, she strives to create a mythology of form that reveals the web of connection between humans and the natural world. Liz received her B.A. in visual arts from Columbia University and shows her work in New York, Virginia, Portland, OR, and the Boston area. She and her husband, composer Duncan Neilson, are currently visiting artists at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Liz has recently created multimedia projects for the Portland Chamber Orchestra, the Walla Walla Symphony, and the Middle Eastern Music Ensemble of the College of William and Mary, in collaboration with Duncan, storyteller David Robinson, and other artists and performers. In addition to her four current collaborative multimedia pieces, she is working on her own graphic novel, entitled No-Tail. Liz also works as a freelance designer, designing books and other print material for artists and organizations such as painter LeRoy Neiman, the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, KY, singer-songwriter Noe Venable, Columbia University, and Dark Horse Books.

In 2006, with Duncan and pianist Deborah Bradley-Kramer, Liz founded the White Buffalo Music and Art Salon series in New York City, a concert series dedicated to exploring the links between music, art and ecology; a gathering of artists, performers, speakers and listeners in an atmosphere of philosophical and artistic enquiry and community.