RESUME

Ellen Schillace
612-834-1500
www.ellenschillace.org
ellenschillace427@gmail.com

Born:
Washington, D.C.

Education
2011 Expressive Arts Leadership Graduate Certificate, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
2001-2002 Graduate Course work, Art Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Principles of Color, Printmaking, Painting, Processing Art in Museums, Writing
1986 Split Rock Artist Program, University of Minnesota, Duluth Minnesota
1971 BA in English and Psychology, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
Gallerics / Juried / Invitational
(includes a combined list of solo, two or three person shows and group exhibitions)
2019 “19th Amendment at 100: Women’s Voices Then and Now” Juried Show, Women’s Caucus for Art, Detroit, Michigan
2016 “The Women and Money Project”, Curator, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Minnesota
2016 “Stepping back looking forward; Honoring Feminist Vision, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2015 “Beyond Boundaries’“, TEDA Contemporary Art Museum, Invitational, Tianjin, China,
2014 “Portals and Passages“’, Warm Juried Show, Phipps Center for Art, Hudson, Wisconsin
2014 “Equilibrium: Art for a Changing World”, Juried Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2014 “Women and Water Rights” Mills District Gallery, Minneapolis
2010 “Paper vs Paint” Three-person exhibition, Deblois Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
2010 “Paper Politics, Juried Show, Williamsburg, Pennsylvania
2008 “L’Arte en Anarche, Juried Show, Montreal Canada
2007 “A Retrospective” Horst Galleries, SOLO Exhibition, Minneapolis
2006 Group Exhibiton, The Gallery at Peck, Providence, Rhode Island
2006 “Paper Politics”, 5+5 Gallery, Juried Show, Brooklyn, New York
2005 “Transformation”, SOLO Exhibition, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, Abbot Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis
2005 “Frinj of the Frinj”, Juried show’, MIRA Gallery, Minneapolis
2005 “Paper Politics”, Juried Show, Seattle, Washington April 2005
2004 “Spring Show”, Frankstone Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2004 “Spirit of the Beloved Community”, Visiting Artist/SOLO Exhibition, Multicultural Center, Johnson and Wales University, Providence Rhode Island
2003 “2nd Annual Juried Show”, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka
2003 “WARM Member Show”, MIRA Gallery, Minneapolis
2001 “9/11 RESPONSE”, Graduate Art Department Exhibition in response to 9/11, Boulder. Museum of Contemporary Art. Boulder, Colorado 2001
2001 Art Resources Gallery at Jackson, Saint Paul, Minnesota
1998 Art Resources Gallery International Design Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998 JRS Fine Arts, Providence, Rhode Island
1994 “Non-Color Painting”, Unity Unitarian, SOLO Exhibition, Saint Paul
1993 “Moments of Truth”, House of Hope Presbyterian Church Summit Avenue, SOLO Exhibition
1991 “Celebration of Diversity”, Curator, organizer, Northern Warehouse Artist Cooperative, Blair Arcade, Saint Paul
1983 “FOUNDING MEMBERS”, WAVE Gallery, Lowertown, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Curatorial Projects
2016 The Women and Money Project, co-curated with Lyndell King, Director Weisman Art Museum, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Visiting Artist / Artist Talk / Panels
2006 “Warm History and Legacy”, Artist Panel moderated by Macalester Art Professor Joanna Inglot, Frederick Weisman Art Museum
2004 “Authentic Journeys”, Artist Talk, Johnson and Wales University Multicultural Center, Providence, Rhode Island
2004 Visiting Artist, Multicultural Center, Johnson and Wales University, Providence, Rhode Island
2004 Artist Talk, “Transformation”, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
2002 Artist in Residence, Chautauqua Park, Boulder, Colorado
Publications / Catalogs / Selected Bibliography
2016 The Women and Money Project, Katherine E. Nash Gallery
2016 “Women, art, and worth”, Women’s Press, Fall Issue
2015 Beyond Boundaries, TEDA Museum of Contemporary Art Tianjin, China
2014 Equilibrium: Art for a Changing World, Chicago, Illinois
2012 Bound, Woman’s Caucus for Art, New York City
2009 Paper Politics: Socially engaged Printmaking Today by Josh MacPhee, Brooklyn
2007 “The Artist Way”, Report from Newport, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
1994 “True to Form” by Andy Driscoll, Grand Arts, Saint Paul, MN
Art Affiliations / Commitments
2019-present Vice President of International Association of Female Artists
2011-2017 President, Minnesota Women’s Caucus for Art, President
2002-2006 WARM Board Member
1981-1983 WAVE Gallery co-founding member (Warm Associates Collective)