An Interview with Betty Edwards

Abstract

Betty Edwards is Professor Emeritus in Art, California State University, Long Beach. She has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Intuition Magazine and has been a guest speaker at art school, universities, and major corporations, including IBM, General Electric, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Disney Corporation, UCLA Graduate Dental School, Steelcase, and McKinsey and Company. She currently lives in La Jolla, a coastal town just north of San Diego, California. She holds a doctorate in Art from California State University in Long Beach from UCLA and has been Director for Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research at California State University in Long Beach, and has been Associate Professor in Art at Los Angeles Community College, and has also been a designer, a painter, a medical illustrator. Her books include: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Drawing on the Artist within, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook, Color: Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors and her major books have been translated into 18 foreign languages. In this interview she responds to the most salient questions about her life and her work. She can be reached at 858‐454‐5411 or Email: [email protected]