Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Amy Ellingson

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Santa Fe, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Amy Ellingson’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and in Tokyo, Japan. She is the recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship and the Artadia Grant to Individual Artists and has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Her work is held in various public collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. Ellingson received a B.A. in studio art from Scripps College and an M.F.A. from CalArts. Her public commission, Untitled (Large Variation), is an 1100-square-foot ceramic mosaic mural. It is a permanent installation on view in Terminal 3 at the San Francisco International Airport. Amy Ellingson lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Studios

Cheney

Amy Ellingson worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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