Beth Block is a multi-media artist working in film, video, photography, digital media, and installation. She majored first in painting and then film, and received her BFA from Kent State University and her MFA from CalArts. Her 16mm experimental and documentary films have been screened internationally and are included in the collections of the Library of Congress and the Canadian Film board, and they have won awards at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and tour, Sinking Creek, Black Maria, and Philadelphia Film Festivals. Her documentary, The Art of Survival was screened nationally on PBS. Beth has worked professionally in the film industry for twenty years, first as an optical supervisor on films including Altered States and Wolfen, and more recently as a digital compositing artist creating visual effects for motion pictures including Astronaut Farmer, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and James and the Giant Peach. She is currently working in digital photography and image manipulation, as well as art and video installation, incorporating text with image while exploring the unjust limitations nature has inflicted upon all of us. She was recently invited to contribute a piece to a permanent video installation in Pasadena, CA as part of the One Percent for Arts program and has finished a book incorporating fictional text with digitally manipulated photographs. Beth is also an active arts advocate, first serving on the Board of Film Forum including two years as its president, then as a founding member of the board of New Town Pasadena Foundation where she has remained active for the last ten years and is that board’s current president.