Is your name Arlo, and did you drink eleven piña coladas on a first date, brag for two hours about once winning a prestigious spelunking award as a student, then try to grope your date? Is your name Jethro, and did you cheat on your serious girlfriend while presenting yourself…

Drawing Toward Recovery After Being Hit By A Car On Wednesday, April 20, 2022, I took a short break from working from home to walk to pick up my cat’s prescription. It was an errand that should have taken 20 minutes at most. I remember telling my cat on the way out the door, “I’ll be right back, sweetie.” …

PRINTS, POSTERS, FABRIC DESIGN, AND CLOCKS AT SWEET LORRAINE GALLERY IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — Here’s a ten minute video visit to Elizabeth Meggs’ recent solo art and design exhibit “FOUND & LOST” at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn, New York this summer: This video is by the up-and-coming filmmaker Shamell Mason. “FOUND & LOST” was a solo exhibition of work by Elizabeth Meggs…

WELCOME! Here’s a six minute video visit to my art studio in Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York. In the video, I talk about some recent oil paintings that are part of an ongoing series that I am completing: This video is by the up-and-coming amazing filmmaker Shamell Mason. I’ll…

Intervals of Infinity Via Form and Color In late 2021, I found myself with an impulse to try my hand at designing some clocks. After more than a decade of experience as a non-objective geometric and color-centric painter, who often pondered time as one facet of painting, I wanted to…

TREE-PLANTING AND BROOKLYN UTOPIAS: ALONG THE CANAL The visions of more than 200 artists of what a utopian Brooklyn was, is, or could be sprung to life just as spring itself emerged in New York City this year. Arts Gowanus, the Old Stone House, and Washington Park organized an expansive…

16 books from the library of the pioneering graphic design historian (Author’s note: The following article was originally published on the Designers & Books website five years ago, on May 30, 2017, on the occasion of my father Philip B. Meggs’ 75th birthday. I am sharing it now here on May 30, 2022, on what would have been his 80th birthday…

ARTIST ELIZABETH MEGGS’ FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT OF HER EXPERIENCE AS A PARTICPATING ARTIST THE EMAIL “UH OH,” I said out loud and froze, when I read the incoming email that said, “On behalf of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Trust for Governors Island, I am delighted to announce that your submission for the 2022 Governors Island Winter Ice Sculpture has been selected. Congratulations! …

Speed Reading “BOOKMOBILE: On the Road”, Elizabeth Meggs, mixed media gravity racer: Official Pinewood Derby™ Car Kit from Boy Scouts of America®, book, superglue, polyvinyl acetate glue, 2014 (Maybe it isn’t the most aerodynamic car design . . . But it still can race, and at least it’s literary! 📕🚘😁) You can read about the Gravity Racer event here: https://hyperallergic.com/149542/gallery-hosts-miniature-gravity-car-race-featuring-100s-of-artist-designed-chariots/