Liberty Pierson is a visual artist, educator, and designer. She has been a professional working artist and graphic designer for over 15 years. Past collaborators include Strong for All Economy, Coit Tower, Lookout! Records, Vallejo Food and Art Walk, and El Comalito Collective. Pierson received an A.S. Graphic Design and studied Illustration and Art Education at Pratt Institute.

Since 2014 she has been volunteering and working within the Vallejo Arts community. In 2019 Liberty Pierson joined the Vallejo Teaching Artists. During the 2020 pandemic, she also produced a series of educational videos for the VTA and YouTube. Her works have been displayed and sold through multiple galleries in the Bay Area.

In her home studio she is expanding her pyrography portrait series. Her body of work focuses on themes of ethnic diversity, representation, and empowerment. Liberty Pierson’s medium of choice is purposefully intended to be an intricate and tedious method. Contrasting against the inspiring and whimsical imagery that she creates on the wood.

Honey was acquired in 2022 by the Art on Campus Task Force as part of an ongoing effort to grow the LPC art collection, with a focus on local Bay area artists and LPC student artists.

Credit: Nike Foundation Site Funds, CLPCCD’s Board of Trustees, Art on Campus Task Force