Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in Media Arts in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University in 2002.  Ellie has received numerous awards including: 2010 Urbana Arts Grant, Envision 365 Art Award, a 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo competition, a featured artist from women in photography international, the Calumet Award from the Print Center’s 2006 and 2008 International Photography Competition. In addition, Ellie has attended artist in residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2006, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL with acclaimed photographer Graciela Iturbide in 2002 and a 2007 residency in Costa Rica at the David and Julia White Artist Colony. Both her bookwork and photographs are exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including Mexico, Romania, Greece, with a solo exhibition at the Galeria Nacional in Costa Rica. The Center for the Book Arts in NYC will be exhibiting a solo show entitled A Chronicle of Lovers in 2009. From 2000- to the present, Ellie has taught in NJ, NY, CA, PA and as a part-time and full-time lecturer in photography, digital media and 2D at many Colleges and Universities. Ellie served as a Visiting Professor position of Digital Information at the University of Ulsan, South Korea in 2008. Ellie has been photographing girls’ issues since 1996 and making altered bookwork since 2002. In 2008 she published the photographs of her sisters called Two Girls: My Sisters 1996-2006 and in 2009 she published the work Ten Days in the CAPSULE. Ellie's current project, BAG, has been published on LULU.com and is being exhibited all across the country and Iceland from 2010-2012.  http://www.elliebrown.com

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