Betsy Miller Anderson

I worked with Betsy on the Califas projects including books, poster and the museum website and as a result grew to love her determination and kindness. When I was not well she brought me homemade meals, I remember her often and miss her warmth and enthusiasm

Betsy was my classmate at UC Santa Cruz drawing and painting classes in 1975 - 1977. I sent her an email recently and it bounced. I did a Google search to get her new email address and found an obituary instead. I am shocked and saddened to read that she passed away! Before the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown, she invited me to visit her art studio and told me that I could pick out some of her art to have for free, but I never got around to doing that. I am wondering what happened to her art. I...

I knew Betsy for many decades but not well until she curated Kay Metz´s work before and after Kay died. She was always cheerful, full of interesting and serious talk, and helpful in many ways. I had no idea she died and am very sad, sending condolences to her family.

Remembering my dear friend from high school-Rexford. We were very close, even in college years. Visiting her in Santa Cruz. We connected again in 2019, with so much more to talk and share. 2020 came with all the lock downs. I lost her phone #. And have wanted to find her again. We were into Art, museums, foreign films, and good foods, strong friendship. I am so sorry she passed in 2023. I found her obituary in my search. She lived an amazing and wonderful life. Heart felt condolences to her...

Betsy gifted me a book of Carillo's art. This was at our first introduction. She visited my open studios and purchased a painting. I remember her as very friendly and committed to promoting art in everyday life.

Betsy had a can-do attitude, a ready smile, a raucous laugh, and the longest legs I've ever seen! She will be missed by all.

I worked with Betsy on the State of the Arts radio show at KUSP more than 30 years ago. Betsy got me my start in public radio, which turned into a profession for the next ten years. We also painted together and she taught me a lot about color and technique, teaching me to be bolder and opening a door in my imagination that has stayed open in my life since then. Betsy also opened my mind about using color in gardens - and now I work on landscape design and garden support. So she touched me and...

Betsy was a spark of life and energy and creativity wherever she went. I have known her through many guises over the past years, as the curator of a retrospective for a late artist friend Don Martin, as a professor of drawing at UCSC, as a short-lived employer at Museo, where I helped out a couple of times, and as a collaborator, friend, and all around wonderful human being. In the last month before her passing, she was still doing her thing, assisting me and Rachel McKay with ideas and...

Betsy was a highly valued colleague in the Artist-Endowed Foundation Community, providing a valuable perspective via Museo Eduardo Carrillo to the AEF community's art stewardship and cultural philanthropy work. We will miss her steadfast generosity, enthusiasm, and goodwill. Condolences to her family and friends. - Christine J. Vincent, Project Director, Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative | AEFI.