 Elizabeth Axtman is a recipient of the Skowhegan Endowment for Scholarship Foundation for her 2006 residency there, a Franklin Furnace Fund grant, and was an artist-in-residence with Harvestworks in NYC 2012.Axtman also produces paintings, drawings and mixed media works.She has cited Otabenga Jones, Kehinde Wiley, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Adrian Piper as artistic inspirations.