Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Ellen Forney

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2016
More: www.ellenforney.com
Marbles link
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Cartoonist Ellen Forney is the author of the bestselling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (2012) and its companion book, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life (2018). Her other books include I Love Led Zeppelin, Lust, and Monkey Food: The Complete “I Was Seven In ‘75” Collection. She collaborated on the National Book Award-winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, and has been awarded residencies from Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Hedgebrook.

Ellen curated “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn," a traveling exhibition about comics and health for the National Library of Medicine, and as a visual artist she was selected to create two permanent large-scale murals for Seattle’s Capitol Hill light rail station. She teaches comics at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

Portrait by Jacob Peter Fennell

Studios

Schelling

Ellen Forney worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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