Olena A. Ellis
EDUCATION
2025-2026 Cohorts.Art year-long Mentorship working with Isabella Fazzo, Florence, Italy
La Meridiana Int’l School of Ceramics, Low Temp Techniques Workshop with Isabella Fazzo
2024-2025 Clay Continuum through Cohorts.Art, year-long program working with with Kyungmin Park
2024 Finding Your Voice Mentorship with Naomi Clement
2022-2023 Cohorts.Art year-long program working with Lisa Orr, Massachusetts, USA
2014-2018 University of Alaska Fairbanks (Professor James Brashear) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna cum Laude
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025 Adjunct Professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks
2016 Instructor, Visual Arts Academy, Ceramics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2016 Instructor, Summer Sessions Kids Camp, Ceramics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2015 Instructor, Summer Sessions Kids Camp, Ceramics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
RESIDENCY
2017 Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts, Ojai, CA working with Kevin Wallace, Richard Flores and Maryann Michalski Cord
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Solo Show: Finding The River, Fairbanks Arts Association, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Cohorts: Onward 5 at Good Earth Pottery, Bellingham, WA
2025 Behold the Cup Fairbanks Potters Guild Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK
2024 37th Annual 64th Parallel Exhibition, Juror Liz Maugans, Ohio
2023 Clay Cohorts at Good Earth Pottery, Bellingham, WA
2022 36th Annual 64th Parallel Exhibition, Juror Allison Baker
2021 Solo Show: OMGoddess! Fairbanks Arts Association, Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
F.A.M. Invitational at Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Gallery Artist of the Month, Fairbanks Arts Association
2019 Invitational BFA Alumni Exhibition at UAF Fine Art Gallery
2018 Solo Show: Do You Count? University Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
November Artist of the Month, Fairbanks Arts Association
64th Parallel, Fairbanks Arts, Juror Elizabeth Emery (2nd Place-Sideways Glance)
Limited Edition Show, Fairbanks Arts Association
Witching Hour, Invitational Frozen Lens Photography Show (Ceramics)
Whimsy, Fairbanks Arts Association Spring Juried (Rachelle Dowdy) Exhibition
2017 The Journey is the Destination, Keller Architecture & Allied Arts
Legacy & Continuum Gallery Show, Beato Gallery, Ojai, CA
Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts Online Ceramic Exhibition
UAF Spring Juried Art Exhibition “Aqua Forest” (Honorable Mention)
Circumpolar - Alaska State Juried Show by Jeff Schultz at Ursa Major
SCAG Ceramic Art Show at UAF Fine Art Gallery
Exposed: A Group Exhibition at UAF Fine Art Gallery
2016 Juried UAF Student Art Show - “Vio-lace” (Best of Ceramics)
First Friday Show at Sipping Streams, Fairbanks, AK
2015 First Friday Show at Keller Architecture & Allied Arts
Thawed Out Juried Art Show, Fairbanks, AK
First Friday Show of Photography at Arctic Java, UAF, Fairbanks, AK
Sustainability Art Show (Sea Turtle - Honorable Mention)
2014 Student Art Show – “Blue Ted” (Honorable Mention)
BFA Art Show at UAF
First Friday Show at Keller Architecture & Allied Arts
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Fairbanks Mayor’s Office, Fairbanks, AK, Coral Borealis
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Your One Wild and Precious Clay Life, Studio Potter
2026 Ceramics Monthly, Exposure for Aurora Vase for Cohorts: Onward 5 show at Good Earth Pottery
2025 Shaping Hope: Empty Bowls 2025 by University of Alaska Fairbanks, CLA
2021 Finding the feminine mystique in the works of Olena Ellis, by David James
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Creating Alaska, February 2021,
2018 Ceramics Monthly, Full page representation of residency work completed at Beatrice Wood Center
2017 ASF Photography Contest for holiday cards, Iditarod Dog Team
2016 ASF Photography Contest for holiday cards, Reindeer
2012 Mosaic Art Today, Schiffer Publishing LTD, 2012, pages 96 -101