Artist, Lisa Ward Landsman, was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1970. She is a fifth generation Tampanian. Her family owned one of the original cigar factories in Ybor City, Arango y Arango.
Lisa showed an interest in the visual arts at a very young age, and her parents encouraged this by enrolling her in various coursework in art technique and design. An equally important love in Lisa’s young life was zoology. She would sit for hours observing insects. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biology in 1996 from Florida Atlantic University. She worked as a wildlife biologist with the SPCA Wildlife Care Center, recorded chimpanzee behavior as part of a project set up by The Jane Goodall Institute, and worked with sawgrass on an Everglades restoration project. During the same time period, she painted masterpiece reproductions, by artists such as Miro, Picasso and Matisse, for an art reproduction company called World Masterpieces.
Lisa’s current work is inspired by her love of zoology and entomology, conservation, Pop Art, mid-century modern design, bold color and her desire to create appreciation for the most unloved of earth’s beneficial creatures. Her work can be found in collections all over the U.S. She was recently published in Coastal Living magazine and chosen to create the artwork for their 2004 Idea House. She is a core member of the artist collective, Gala Corina, and a member of BRAVA, a group of women artists. She continues to indulge her dual career choice by working part time in the Department of Biological Operations at The Florida Aquarium. She recently attended a workshop in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as a subject matter expert helping to build a global database that promotes sharing of standardized and scientifically collected animal data.
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