Lisa Etre grew up on US Virgin Island of St Croix. After high school Lisa entered American University in Washington DC and graduated in 1975 with a BA in Art. She took a year to travel Mexico and South America before refocusing her attention on her art by registering at the Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende Mexico to study painting and printmaking.

In '79 Lisa returned to St Croix and held her first professional exhibition. She then sailed north to the smaller US Virgin Island of St John where she stayed and worked for several years, leaving to pursue her master's degree at the University of New Mexico. In 1984 Lisa Etre returned again to the islands and started teaching art at the Ivanna Eudora Kean High School on St Thomas where now, 25 years later, as head of the department she continues to teach.

Side by side with her teaching career, Lisa has never stopped developing her artistic expressions. Her colorful graphic prints and giftware items are known throughout the Caribbean. She has been published in Islands Magazine, illustrated for Simon & Schuster's "On white Sail" and was a featured artist on the set of the Bill Cosby Show. Five years ago Lisa returned to landscape painting on canvas in a looser more painterly style. She still designs for various local and national companies. She is a founding member of the Artists Association of St John inc.

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