Benita Brewer is an Assistant Professor teaching visual design and multimedia at Indiana-University Purdue-University Fort Wayne (IPFW). She received a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) from Indiana University (Fort Wayne campus) and a MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Electronic Art from the University of Cincinnati.

Benita began her graphic design career in southern Ohio with the company Electronic Vision, developing instructional video-disks for the nursing and medical profession. She is best known for her role as ‘nursing student #2’ in Mosby’s Critical Thinking in Nursing Management Series. Benita then moved to Indianapolis and worked for Agri Business Group, designing educational CD-Roms and websites for the agriculture market. There she spent her days drawing and animating the growth cycles of corn, soybeans and cotton plants. Benita was also employed as the design director for CMG Worldwide and a consultant for Ambassador Solutions during her twelve years in Indianapolis. During that time, she produced advertisements and websites for the estates of Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Malcolm X, Vince Lombardi, Buddy Holly, and Jack Kerouac. Indianapolis clients included Lilly & Company, Clarion Health, and Pearson Publishing.

Benita’s artwork is often serial, exploring an idea through multiple images. The imagery is created digitally with original photographs and scanning pieces from nature or drawings made with traditional tools. In 2006, Benita received an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artists' Grant and a Purdue University Faculty Research grant. Her work has been exhibited nationally and was recently published in Dimensions of Disclosure: Portraits of the Self by New Art Review.