Elizabeth Albor, Inner Chi Artist

Storytelling has impacted Elizabeth throughout her life, and she hopes to do the same through her art via multiple forms like photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, writing, and digital/video art.

Her most recent relief print titled Farmworkers Feed The World (attach link to art piece/pictures) highlights the hardworking individuals who clean and harvest the onion fields in the southwestern part of Idaho. That area is one the largest regions of the agricultural industry for the state and employs over 14,000 agricultural workers a year according to the Idaho Department of Labor. Agriculture accounts for 17.2% of the state’s total economic output ($44.5 billion in annual sales), according to a recent University of Idaho report based on 2024 data. Albor believes farmworkers deserve recognition for the efforts in keeping the state, nation, and world fed. Farmworkers are excluded from overtime pay and collective bargaining rights so even if an individual works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week—a 70-hour weekly shift, they get paid the same wage. This extra time to work to meet the needs of the industry, take time away from their families, meal prepping, laundry or other needs a human being has in this day and age.

In 2021, Albor began exploring her Mexican and indigenous heritage which is apparent in her work like Danza de Los Viejitos (attach link to artwork page/pictures) and Elote y Maiz: La Sagrada Abundancia de Mexico which references the ways the Purepecha (a tribe native to the state of Michoacán, Mexico), Aztecs and other mesoamerican indigenous communities in Mexico used corn and maize to make dishes still consumed today. Eli is currently researching plant medicine and other holistic practices. A new series of work is underway and they will reflect her acquired knowledge and interpretations of the matter.