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Betye Saar is an assemblage artist living and working in Los Angeles, California.  She is known for her multimedia collages, box assemblages, altars and installations consisting of found objects and other materials.  She is a graduate of UCLA and continued graduate studies at California State University at Long Beach, the University of Southern California and California State University at Northridge. Among the numerous honors she has received are National Endowment for the Arts awards in both 1974 and 1984.  She has received honorary degrees from California College of the Arts & Crafts, Otis/Parson, Los Angeles, California, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, and Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts. In 1994, Saar, along with Los Angeles-based artist John Otterbridge, represented the United States at the 22nd Biennial of Sao Paulo in Brazil.