Lisa Brooks was an art teacher in southern VT for 28 years. She has a BA in Art and Education from University of Montana, and a MAT: Masters in Teaching with Internet Technologies, from Marlboro College Graduate Center, in southern VT. She designed and produced two online art education inservice graduate courses for Davis Art Publishing as her capstone project for her MAT degree and is the designer and webmistress of many other sites (see web design links). Lisa teaches classes for her peers: Tech 4 Teachers.

Lisa has taught drawing, painting, polymer clay, silversmithing, computer graphics and Web design classes for many years to adults, as well as young people. Through grants and university travel programs Lisa has traveled world-wide studying the arts of the cultures of China, Mexico, Italy, and Japan. All these experiences have provided inspiration for her art work.

Lisa illustrated Joe Eck's book, Elements of Garden Design, Henry Holt, 1996, with 32 pen and ink drawings of North Hill (Eck and partner Wayne Winterrowd's well known southern Vermont garden). Her work has been shown at Art on the Mountain, the Brattleboro Library, Young and Constantine Gallery, and Kaos Gallery, in Wilmington, VT as well asl the Artists Workshop in New Smyrna Beach, FL. She has won numerous awards for her teaching and art.

Lisa lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL with her husband, Tim Dalton, a carpenter. She has two grown children.

“I trust the wisdom that my heroine is within. In ancient myths the goddess is the archetype of safety and support, holding in her arms the woes of worldly life. I see the feminine all around me and try to depict that in my art”.

click on the subjects below to see Lisa's art work.