The artist and fashion designer Beth Williams Garrett was the 2012 Artist-in-Residence at Materials for the Arts. For more than 30 years, Garrett has shown her artwork in museums and galleries up and down the East Coast. Her most recent work, exhibited at Gotham Center in May 2012 for the LIC Arts Open, transforms recyclables and plastic bags into sculptures inspired by Buddhist temples and ancient ruins. Garrett studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design.
