Jesika (Sanders) Ellis received a BA in art, with a concentration in photography, from the University of Evansville in 1996, and
completed work toward an MFA in Visual Studies at the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design in 1999. She received an MPSA degree from UE in 2008.
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her artwork, Ellis concentrates on interpretive, frequently abstracted landscapes and still lifes, reflecting a very personal pantheistic ideology. Trees, leaves, stones, and birds are enduring
iconic elements in her work. She works in many mediums, including pastels, oil, photography, graphite, and collage.
Ellis has had professional experience as a custom darkroom printer; a commercial printer; as well as associate art director, graphic
designer, and photographer for Tucker Publishing Group, publishers of Evansville Living magazine.
Now a freelance fine artist and graphic designer, Ellis accepts commission pieces and projects through a shared working studio, Studio 113, in the Old Courthouse in Evansville.
Ellis works with the Tri-State Art Guild, has been a frequent member and volunteer with
the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana and active
in the Evansville Fine Arts Camera Club. Ellis created and hosts, with her husband Toby, the original Evansville YART event. Her work
has been shown in numerous competitive and invitational exhibits since the early
1990s and is included in private and corporate collections, regionally and internationally.
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