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| Lizzie Oglesby graduated in 2003 from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. At Hollins, she obtained a B.A. in film & photography and a minor in creative writing. During college, Oglesby interned in the photographs department at both the Museum of Modern Art and Sotheby's, in New York. A Richmond, Virginia native, she interned at Style Weekly magazine, where she photographed everything from new restaurants to punk rock kids who feed the homeless. In 2004, Oglesby moved to Savannah, Georgia to pursue a degree in photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She taught digital imaging for the web as a teaching assistant with Steve Aishman, and intro to black and white craft with Zig Jackson. She graduated in 2006 with a M.F.A. in photography. |
| Oglesby taught photography at St. Catherine's School and at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts before moving to Oxford, Mississippi in 2007. In Oxford, she was a freelance photographer and volunteer for the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council. She and 5 artists in Oxford ran the Oxford Maker's Market every 1st and 3rd Saturday. She created "Pick It Up, Oxford! Oxford's Guide to Greener Living" and "LOSTAIRE - Lizzie Oglesby: Shuffled Thoughts on Art and Other Impermanent Records of Existence." Both blogs comment on various aspects of the state of Mississippi and beyond. She was featured in the Arts & Entertainment section of The Oxford Enterprise, Volume 1, Number 4 on October 25, 2009. Click here to download the pdf of the article. |
| Oglesby returned to Richmond in 2010 and is a Retail Sales Associate for the Virginia Historical Society. She volunteers for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, is a member of the VMFA's Friends of Art Advisory Council, and the Network of Enterprising Women. |
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