During her forty-plus year "art life," Becky Hendrick has worked in many media and genres including painting, multi-media constructions, participatory installations, and performance art. She received her BFA in painting from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1969 and the MFA from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1978. She has taught studio and lecture classes in five college art programs, and is currently on the faculty at University of Texas at El Paso where she teaches Whole Arts, a course integrating visual art, dance, music, and theater. Her work is in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections, including the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso Holocaust Museum, New Mexico State University, Meridian Museum of Art, and the Mississippi museum of Art. Hendrick is the author of Getting It: A Guide to Understanding and Appreciating Art (Houghton Mifflin Company), About and Through the Arts: Lessons and Activities for Creating Teaching and Learning (Kendall Hunt Publishers), and ____ 's Book of Beliefs, available online from iUniverse.com. For over twenty years she has been a frequent contributor of arts criticism to regional and national arts periodicals, most recently Artlies, published in Houston. She received an award for arts criticism from the Kansas City Arts Alliance in 1986. In addition to her art, teaching, and writing, Becky Hendrick serves as host of the Border Art Residency, founded by her husband, sculptor Willie Ray Parish, on their property in rural La Union, New Mexico. She and Parish divide their time between El Paso/La Union and Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico.
