Elizabeth Cencini | #20 | Painter

Elizabeth Cencini is a native Houstonian and student at the University of Houston. She is seeking a degree in BA-Painting. She has studied art in various locations in Florence, Italy. While a student at Accademia del Giglio and Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, she learned techniques such as Italian fresco, Roman Byzantine mosaics, figure drawing and the master techniques in oil painting. She has also studied with internationally known Master Artist Franco Rossi of Arezzo, Italy.

 She is one of the most active community artists in Houston and her efforts have established a new home for her artwork in her local town of Houston, Texas at Winter Street Studios.

She has brought these groups the attention of the media and helped place them in the eye of the public. Publications such as Arts Houston Magazine, 002 Houston Magazine, Houston Press, Paper City Magazine, Houston Envy Magazine and online sites such as greenrightnow.com, artshounds.com, and spacetaker.org, have written articles and added her press releases to their calendars. Thanks to her efforts many have had personal acknowledgement and much success in their own careers.

In her artistic career, she is most notably known for her Vespa-scooter art collection that was on view in April 2008 at the Italian Cultural Center and later featured in 002 Houston magazine for September and again in December. She is also a long time community activist, from artist educator in the outreach programs for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to helping out with charities and fundraising from Via Colori in support of the Center for Hearing and Speech, to Art for Aids, and Cancer Fighters of America.