For the last seven years of her life, Liza Behrendt (1965–2018) was a devoted high school teacher in Edmonds, Washing­ton, inspiring students to care for the environment and the com­munity. In 2006, she launched an all–volunteer nonprofit organization, Beauty of Water, which generated collaborative art experiences in communities around the world focused on an appreciation for water. Behrendt received the Arts and Healing Network award in 2009 for this work, through which she sought to “stimulate positive shifts in the human relationship with water.” She was a member of the Ecoart Network from 2014 until her death in 2018.

See her work in Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities.