Angela Ellsworth

Angela Ellsworth
Nationality American
Education
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Angela Ellsworth is an American artist. She has worked as a painter, a performance artist and as a maker of art objects. She is a descendant of Lorenzo Snow and was raised as a Mormon; some of her work relates to that upbringing.[1][2] She is openly lesbian.[3]

Ellsworth studied at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she received a bachelor's degree in fine art, and graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with a Master of Fine Arts degree in performance and painting.[3]

Ellsworth has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, and at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona.[3] She is one of the founders of the Museum of Walking, which occupies a small room at the Arizona State University Tempe campus. [4] Four of Ellsworth's works are in the UMFA's permanent collection.

References

  1. ↑ "Intriguing Art with Social Commentary at Art Miami". Artsy Editorial. Artsy. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  2. ↑ Sativa Peterson. "Hero Worship (2010) Angela Ellsworth". Phoenix New Times. Phoenix New Times. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Kathleen Vanesian. "Angela Ellsworth on Being Gay, the Mormon Church, and Her Increasing Artistic Success". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sarah Ventre. "Museum of Walking Wishes You Would Take a Hike". KJZZ. Rio Salado College and Maricopa Community Colleges. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
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