Elizabeth Sher started I.V. Studios, her film production company, in 1979. Her first film was a satire on the behavior modification method of toilet training. The script was based on a book on the subject which someone had sent her, thinking it might help with the training of her children. Instead, the book inspired her to make a film, The Training. When it screened at a local art exhibit, everyone laughed and she was hooked on filmmaking.

Since then she has produced over three dozen films and videos, from 4 minutes long to feature length. Forms include children´s stories, interviews, performances, TV documentaries, magazine shows, music videos, experimental works and dramas. Subject matter has clustered in 3 categories: art, women, and health. The topics keep pace with her own life cycle as a woman, artist and mother. Her films have earned grants, won national festival awards, and aired on PBS and cable networks from San Francisco to New York to Australia, Portugal and Israel.

Sher is a Professor of Art at California College of the Arts (formerly California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland and San Francisco where she teaches classes in computer graphics, drawing, and time based art. Her fine art prints and paintings are included in the public collections of museums and universities and in private collections across the country.

Utilizing video stills from her archive as source material, Sher creates mixed media installations and artworks on canvas, paper and lightboxes with audio combining computer images with paint, collage and story vignettes adapted from her films. She also makes artist books. See Artist's Statement