Liza Sylvestre is the co-founder of Creating Language Through Arts, an educational arts residency that focuses on using art as a means of communication when there are language barriers present due to hearing loss. She has been awarded both an Artists Initiative and Arts Learning grant from the MSAB, a VSA Jerome Emerging Artists Grant, a fellowship through Art(ists) on the Verge and an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Most recently, Sylvestre has served as the artist in residence at the Center for Applied Translational Sensory Science and the Weisman Art Museum.
