Elin Menzies is a multi-disciplinary artist who studied painting at Bennington College, the University of Hawaii, the Art Students League and sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art. Her awards include the SaveArtSpace Animal Instinct Award, the Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award, The Jacobs/Towbin Artist of the year Award and Social Commentary Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum and an Artists of the Northeast Award from the Silvermine Arts Center. She was also a finalist for a Gottlieb award. Menzies has participated in solo, invitational and juried exhibits at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, the Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Emerge Gallery, Jane Street Art Center, Woodstock Framing Gallery, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Arts Society of Kingston, Greene County Council of the Arts, the Woodstock Artists Association, The Athens Cultural Center, and other galleries and venues regionally and nationally. A main focus of her work is on interspecies connections.