Elin Menzies is a painter and cut-out 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 Animal Instinct Award from SaveArtSpace, the Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award, Jacobs/Towbin Artist of the Year Award, Social Commentary Award and Mary Wilson Landscape Award from the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum and an Artists of the Northeast Award from the Silvermine Arts Center. She has participated in solo, invitational and juried exhibits at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, the  Kleinert James Center for the Arts, Woodstock Framing Gallery, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery, Arts Society of Kingston, Emerge Gallery, Jane Street Gallery, Greene County Council of the Arts, the Woodstock Artists Association, The Athens Cultural Center, and other galleries and venues regionally and nationally.