Elizabeth Nelson Adams
| Elizabeth Nelson Adams | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1941 (age 75–76) Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina |
| Spouse(s) | Weston Adams |
| Relations | Patrick Henry Nelson II (great grandfather) |
| Alma mater | University of South Carolina |
| Profession | Artist, writer, arts commissioner, teacher |
| Committees | South Carolina Arts Commission Board of Directors of The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities |
Elizabeth Nelson Adams (born 1941) is an artist, poet, writer, Arts Commissioner, and film casting director, born in Columbia, South Carolina.
A recipient of a scholarship from The National Merit Scholarship Program, Adams went to The University of South Carolina where she earned her AB degree in 1961. She later earned her Masters in English (1987) and her PhD in creative writing (1989) from The University of South Carolina. She is married to Ambassador Weston Adams (diplomat), and they have four children.
From 1995 to 2000, Adams served on the South Carolina Arts Commission. She served on the Board of Directors of The South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities.
A prolific poet and writer, Adams is the author of Gathering the Rain (1990), and of Five Malawian Writers: An Essay in Personal Exploration (1987). A successful painter, Adams has had shows throughout South Carolina, in Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Nantucket, and Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa. In 2007 and 2009, she had art shows in Los Angeles to raise money for Tippi Hedren’s Shambala Preserve. Shambala is a nonprofit organization founded by Hedren in 1983, which cares for endangered exotic big cats such as African lions, Siberian tigers and Bengal tigers, leopards and other big cats.
Between 1984 and 1986, Adams spent her time painting and writing in Malawi, Africa. Her paintings captured the landscape and the people of the former British colony. During that period she wrote Five Malawian Writers: An Essay in Personal Exploration (1987). She studied the culture of Malawi, from Lilongwe, to the northern Nyika Plateau, to Lake Malawi, and to the southern Zomba Plateau. Her extensive travels through Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and other African countries, are reflected in her body of work.
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