Lin Chen received her BFA from the University of Arkansas Fayetteville in 2004. Since then she has continued to work from her home studio, and to exhibit solo or with fellow artists. She is also a teaching artist for the Arts in Education Program through the Arkansas Arts Council, providing integrated art curriculum to schools in the River Valley and Northwest Arkansas regions. The research program proposes to examine and improve the impact that art has on inter-disciplinary learning. Lin and her husband Kenneth Murray, live on a small family farm in Charleston, Arkansas.