Beverly Naidus's art life has straddled the socially engaged margins of the art world, artful activism collaborations, and community-based art projects. Much of her work deals with ecological and social issues that have adversely affected her and those around her. Her primary forms are audience-participatory installations, photo/text projects, and artist’s books. She has shared her work in city streets, alternative spaces, university galleries and major museums. Her work has been written about in many books and journals and has developed an international audience.

Naidus was a tenured professor at UW Tacoma where she shaped an innovative, interdisciplinary studio arts curriculum in art for social change and healing. She is now the co-director of SEEDS, Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School, where she is co-facilitating workshops on art for social change with a focus on racial and climate justice. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame and many essays on socially engaged art pedagogy, as well as pieces of speculative fiction.