Ferrell Beck is the pen name occasionally used by artist, writer, and educator Becky Hendrick. A painter for more than 40 years, with works in many private and museum collections, Hendrick currently teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Texas at El Paso. With her husband, sculptor Willie Ray Parish, she hosts the Border Art Residency on the couple's property in La Union, New Mexico. She divides her time between the borderland of Texas/New Mexico and Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, Mexico.