A native of Berkeley, California, Elsbeth studied at the Staatliche Kunstschule in Bremen and at the University of California at Berkeley.
She has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York as well as in Paris, France.
Pictures of her work have been published in: "Handmade Toys and Games", Jean Ray Laury and Ruth Law, Doubleday, 1975; "Hardcore Crafts", edited by Nancy Bruning Levine, Bellantine Books, 1976; and "The Creative woman's Getting-it-all-together Handbook", by Jean Ray Laury, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1978.
