I’m Liz Kovarsky (she/her), a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and social worker based in Brunswick, Maine—and the founder of Electric Cottage Collective.

My path has been non-linear. I moved often growing up, always adapting to new towns and schools. Art became my anchor—I'd spend hours painting, even covering my bedroom walls despite my parents’ protests. 

At MassArt, I found fellow weirdos who believed, like I did, that art could challenge the status quo and be transformative. That belief carried me through years in San Francisco as an art teacher, printmaker, dance and yoga teacher.

Eventually, I moved to Maine and became a social worker, seeking to understand the systems I’d long resisted. I studied trauma, body-based healing, substance use, and systemic oppression. But after a while, my body began to show signs of burnout—or more truthfully, moral injury. I felt a deep yearning to return to creativity, community, and embodiment.

To reorient to the question, “Am I moving towards death or am I moving towards life?”​​

Through my journey, I’ve realized: I don’t want to fight against and work within systems that drain our life force. I want to build a new model that renders the old systems obsolete. I want to move towards life.

Electric Cottage Collective is my response. It’s a space where people get lost in an art project, exhale in a yoga class, share ideas, and reconnect with what truly matters. We resist grind culture and create the conditions for curiosity, play, and collective care—because these are not luxuries, but necessities for the world we’re building.