Venus Cult.ure

connecting ancient art to future sacred sites

Elizabeth J. Sciore-Jones MFA, is an intermedia artist originating in Ithaca, NY, whose practice, Venus Cult.ure, bridges the Paleolithic and future sacred sites through immersive installation, sculpture, sound, and experimental film. She explores feminist histories, ritual aesthetics, recycling and folkloric traditions, grounding her work in the enduring presence of the primal goddess archetype.

Working with natural and second-hand materials, Elizabeth constructs maximalist altarscapes—immersive sanctuaries where projected light, sound, and assemblage create sensory architectures of myth and memory. In parallel, her ceramic practice produces voluptuous earthenware goddesses, beastly hybrids, and folkloric figures that reference ancient ritual traditions and the Paleolithic venus lineage. These works blur the boundaries between artifact and altar, relic and proposal, worship and world-building.

She has presented her work in solo exhibitions including Illume-Shrine (Winter Light Festival, Ithaca, NY), Cave of Light (Healer Art Space, Indianapolis, IN), and Bamboo Chime Temple (National Bamboo Conference, Orlando, FL). She has participated in international group exhibitions and large-scale collaborative environments at venues such as Burning Man (NV), Love Burn (Miami, FL), Cosmic Womb ( Chapel of Scared Mirrors, NY) and WaveFarm events (NY).

Dedicated to pedagogy and community practice, she has lectured at and Herron School of Art, and led studios at Omega Institute (NY) and restorations at  the Isian Society for Integrated Studies (CA). Elizabeth is regularly interviewed in college lectures, and participates in collective art projects. She holds an MFA in Intermedia from Herron School of Art and a BFA in Photography and Printmaking from the School of Visual Arts, NYC.

“The primordial deity for our Paleolithic and Neolithic ancestors was female, reflecting the sovereignty of motherhood..Paleolithic and Neolithic symbols and images cluster around a self-generating Goddess and her basic functions as Giver-of-Life, Wielder-of-Death, and as Regeneratrix.”

Marija Gimbutas, The Language of the Goddess