Elizabeth Bache has been shooting photographs and doing creative handiwork for nearly twenty years. The photography started with live bands in Minnesota's vibrant underground music scene. The handiwork started with sewing, quilting, cooking, and gardening—skills that most people around her wrote off as old-fashioned women's work.

She more or less bought their story until she met a woman who had followed the very same path but had read the signs along the way and spoken their meaning out loud. This woman was an artist. Elizabeth's birth mother. She was no longer living, but the path she traced was still there.

As Elizabeth came to know Mary through documents and photographs, through drawings and paintings and journals in Mary's own hand, through the stories of Mary's friends and admirers from Provincetown on the Atlantic to Pine Ridge Reservation near the Badlands of South Dakota, she began to read the signs in her own life. She began to speak out loud.

Elizabeth's main works today are in photography, painting, handcrafted jewelry, sewing, cooking, and landscape design. She is a member of the Northeast Minneapolis Artists Association and is completing a Masters degree in horticulture at the University of Minnesota. Her art has sold at Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Corazon in Minneapolis, and Art-a-Whirl open studios in Minneapolis. She is teaching her children to speak in their own voices.