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Born in Los Angeles, California, Photographic Artist & Printmaker, Lis J. Schwitters began her interest in photography in 1976 and continued as a Staff Photographer for her high school, college, and local community newspapers having published over 2000 photographs. In 1985, she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photocomunications from California State University at Fullerton where she studied under Professors of Photography Emeritus, Darryl Curran and John Szarkowski.
While enjoying both photographing (the capture of an image), and printing (the creation of an image), she directed her career towards laboratory work. Schwitters has worked as a Photographic Lab Technician (Printmaker) for such notable institutions as California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/JPL) in Pasadena, Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, and Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, California.
Influenced by Photographic Modernism (1920’s — 1930’s) and Russian Constructivism, Schwitters uses traditional and digital photographic methods in creating her prints.
Schwitters has won numerous awards including an Artist Fellowship supported by the Community Services Department, Cultural Affairs Division of the City of San Buenaventura. Her photographic prints have been exhibited in; the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Museum of Ventura County (formerly the Ventura County Museum of History and Art), the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, and at other notable museums and galleries across the Country.
