Ellie Brown MFA

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Ellie Brown is a native of Boston, MA where she attended Massachusetts College of Art. She received her B.F.A. in photography in 1997 and her M.F.A. in Photography from San Jose State University in 2002. Currently she is a full-time lecturer in photography and 2D foundations at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.   

Ellie has received numerous awards including: a Leeway Foundation grant, first prize from the Fraser Gallery's International photo competition in Bethesda, MD, a featured artist from Women in Photography International, an artist in residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, FL with acclaimed photographer Graciela Iturbide and a full fellowship residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in 2006.

Both her bookwork and photographs are exhibited extensively nationally including two recent solo exhibitions in 2005 at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA and the Southern Light Gallery in Amarillo, TX. She is in a book exhibition at the Philadelphia Free Public Library entitled Bound/ Unbound through the summer 2006.  Ellie has been photographing girls’ issues since 1996 and making altered bookwork since 2002. 

She has taught photography at San Jose State University, National Hispanic University, Ithaca College, Kutztown University and the College of New Jersey. In addition to college teaching, Ellie has been teaching children art since 2000 at a number of schools, museums and art centers. 

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