Lisa Renz Lisa Renz was born in Dallas, Texas in 1981. She attended the University of Dallas and graduated in 2004, receiving her B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in printmaking. She graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with her M.F.A. in the spring of 2007. After a brief stint in Little Rock, she took a position working for an artist in New York City as an assistant. She has now returned home to Texas and will continue to create drawings, prints, and paintings, maybe teach art, and perhaps learn beekeeping skills.