Bebe Beard earned her BFA in 1976, her MFA from Mass College of Art's Studio for Interrelated Media in 1996. In recent years she has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, St Botolph's Club Art Foundation and the Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance; held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell Colony and the Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY. She has exhibited in a wide variety of venues - alternative spaces, galleries, and theaters throughout New England, the Southwest and in Chicago and New York. Her single channel work made in collaboration with Lou Cohen has been screened locally and world-wide in cities such as Auckland, Seoul, Barcelona, Cologne, Puebla, Mexico and Tuscon, Arizona.