California College of Arts and Crafts, BFA.  1995.

Libbie Masterson earned a BFA from the California College of Arts.  Masterson has worked in a variety of media, including printmaking, painting, stone carving, glass, and photography.  Landscapes have been a prevalent theme throughout her work, taking her extensively through Norway, Iceland, Alaska, and Antarctica.  As a result of these travels, Masterson began a series of installations of photographs illuminated with light panels scaling up to 75 feet in length.  These installations have taken place at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2006), the Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston (2007), and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, in 2008.   In 2008 she also created her first stage design, based on her travels to Antarctica.  Commissioned by the Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, “Amadeus” was performed in Houston, Sarasota Florida, New York and is now a full-length ballet performed with the Sarasota Ballet Company.   In 2009, Masterson was awarded an Individual Artists Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance for the creation of a photographic installation, on exhibition in the Space 125 Gallery December 2009- February 2010. This installation is part of a series of black and white imagery shot in the evenings.  She continued to develop this series, focusing on the landscapes of Provence, serving a residency at the Dora Maar House, in the South of France, with a Fellowship awarded through the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Brown Foundation.  Masterson co-created a commission for an 18’ tall Chapel window for the Amazing Place Senior Citizen Center, in Houston.  The commission is with family business Masterson Design, and was installed April of 2010.   Masterson traveled this Spring with the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater for the production of Amadeus in the new Winspear Opera House in Dallas, as well as the National Theater in Tokyo.   April of 2010 Masterson also hung a new exhibition of photography, coinciding with Fotofest 2010, themed Contemporary American Photography.  Masterson’s show, titled SKY, explored imagery of American skies in both the day time and evening.