An offer of a gallery exhibition in 1993 led to Beckie’s first non-wearable art masks. Years of working with actors inspired her to explore the mask’s inner surface: the point of transformation between actor and character. Early pieces using painting and text on the inside of the face evolved into sculptures containing three-dimensional interior tableaus. In 1998, the Los Angeles Opera hosted the premiere exhibition of Kravetz’s Sculpted Arias series. Select pieces have subsequently been shown at opera houses, museums and galleries nationwide. In addition to her operatic works and theatrical and art masks, Beckie creates contemporary figurative sculpture in ceramic and bronze.

Beckie was a Fulbright Fellow in Spain, and has received grants from the California Arts Council, the Arizona Arts Commission, and private foundations. Currently represented by Shidoni Gallery in Santa Fe, and Mountain Shadow Gallery in Tucson, her sculptures have also been exhibited at Lincoln Center Library, the Jewish Community Museum (San Francisco), the Tucson Museum of Art (Arizona), the Downey Gallery (Santa Fe), and Minds Eye Gallery (Scottsdale). Her masks have been seen in productions at the Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York ’s Classic Stage Company, and Pan Asian Repertory Theater, LA’s Ziggurat Theater, Gran Teatro Falla (Cádiz, Spain), Yale University, and Bryn Mawr College. She also created masks for Madonna’s Max Factor Gold international campaign, and Nike and Pepsi commercials featuring Charles Barkley and Michael Jackson. Beckie lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, Alan Weisman.

Beckie's complete portfolio can be seen on her website.

Alan Weisman is a nationally acclaimed journalist, nonfiction writer, and radio producer. Born and raised in Minneapolis, he has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Columbia and a John Farrar Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is the author of the books The World Without Us, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, La Frontera: The United States Border with Mexico, and the extraordinary memoir An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past. His reports from around the world have been published in the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Mother Jones, Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, and on National Public Radio and Public Radio International. Alan was a writer and associate producer of the hard–hitting NPR documentary series Vanishing Homelands, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Citation. He teaches international journalism each spring at the University of Arizona , but makes his home with his wife, Beckie Kravetz, in western Massachusetts.

For more information on Alan's work, check the Homelands Productions list of selected works at homelands.org.