Janis Crystal Lipzin is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Sonoma County, California. Her studio practice spans film, photography, video, artist books and works on paper. She taught at the San Francisco Art Institute and Antioch College for more than 35 years. Her work has been exhibited globally at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern and Pompidou Center. She is currently working on a Guggenheim Fellowship project delving into her family's escape from Ukraine a century ago intertwining history and identity in a time-based form.