Beverly Penn’s cast bronze botanical sculpture confronts the underpinnings of climate injustice by creating enduring memorials of the ephemeral plant world.

Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Racine Art Museum; El Paso Museum of Art; Moody Foundation; ConocoPhillips Corporation; Rosewood Corporation; Cassilhaus; Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; and the Monarch Contemporary Art Center and Sculpture Park. She is recognized as the State of Texas 3D Artist for 2017 by the Texas Commission on the Arts.  Penn is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center; Lux Art Institute, now Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Connemara Conservancy; Smitten Forum; and Texas Commission on the Arts.  She has received a Fulbright Fellowship in Barcelona, Spain, the Texas State University Presidential Seminar Research Award.

Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, William Campbell Contemporary Art in Fort Worth, and Flatbed Press in Austin represent her work.  Penn is a Texas Master Naturalist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas State University.

Learn more about Beverly’s creative process.