Curriculum Vitae
Ellen Rogers

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Solo Art Exhibitions

2019      Who To Tell?  Sexual Assault Awareness Project  Women’s Center, Bryant University, Smithfield, RI

2017, 8   Remembering Our Fallen: Memorial Day Installation  Messner Field, Amesbury, MA

2014      Requiem #1: Elephant Colgate University President’s House  Hamilton, NY

2013      Herd on the Plains  Allan Brooks Nature Centre, Vernon, BC, Canada

2011      Darwin Called It Evolution   The Buffalo Zoo, Buffalo, NY

             Center For The Arts Storefront  University at Buffalo Gallery,  Buffalo, NY

2010      Remembering Our Fallen  Memorial Day public art performance. Buffalo, NY

2009      Fallen:  Public Art Performance  Adirondack Center for the Arts, Blue Lakes, NY

2008      Let Us Not Forget  Joan Weill Adirondack Library, Paul Smiths, NY

             Fallen: Public Art Performance  Monument Square, Portland, ME

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024       Thread Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA

2024       Outdoor Sculpture Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA

2020      Ring Of Fire The Steel Yard @ The Wurks Gallery, Providence, RI   (CANCELLED due to COVID-19)

              The Crow Show The Studio Door, San Diego, CA

              Women Speak Out Chicago Urban Art Retreat Center, Chicago, IL

2018      Urban Wildlife Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2015      Living Fibromyalgia Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

2013      Disclosure Edgewood College, Madison, WI

2012      ArtPrize DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI

            Tactile Optics: Seeing Through Feeling Project 308, North Tonawanda, NY

            Occupy Lunch Genders Across Borders Symposium, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

            Central Academy of Fine Arts, Today Gallery, Beijing, China

2011      One Our Visual Studies Gallery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

             Bizarre Animals 2 Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, MA

2010      Artprize Frederick Meijer Sculpture Garden, Grand Rapids, MI

            Seneca Falls Dialogue Conference Art performance, Seneca Falls, NY

            Process Impact Murray State University, Murray, KY

2009      Joan Weill Adirondack Library Paul Smiths, NY

2008      Index Show   Institute of Contemporary Art.  Portland, ME

Selected Artist Residencies

2024      Vermont Studio Center 1 month, Johnson, VT

2021      The Steel Yard  12 months, Providence, RI  (9/2020 – 8/2021)

2019      Vermont Studio Center 1 month, Johnson, VT

              The Steel Yard  12 months, Providence, RI  (9/2019 – 8/2020)

2016      The Steel Yard  3 months, Providence, RI

2013      Fresh! AiR  1 month, Caetani Cultural Centre and Allan Brooks Nature Centre. Vernon, BC, Canada

2008-9   Paul Smith’s College Library  8 months, Paul Smiths, NY

Selected Art Awards

2019       Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant  Vermont Studio Center,  Johnson, VT

2018       Certificate of Appreciation Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2016 for Remembering Our Fallen, Amesbury, MA

2012      New York Foundation for the Arts MARK Bootcamp Syracuse, NY

2011      Morrison Memorial Scholarship Visual Studies Dept, University at Buffalo, Buffalo,NY

2010      ArtPrize Honorarium Frederick Meijers Gardens and Sculpture Park. Grand Rapids, MI

2009-11  Graduate Assistantship  University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY

Publications as Author

2010       “Migraine 4” Cover art and essay. Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2010, Vol. 24, No. 3:197

2009      Scientific Illustrations Taubes, Gary. Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It.  New York: Knopf, 2010.  Print. Pages 91, 117.

“Migraine 3” Cover art and essay. Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2009, Vol. 23, No. 1:1

Teaching

2016      Instructor “Human Biology: Science, Society, and Art” (Spring, two sections), Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

2015      Instructor “Introduction to Visual Art”  State University of  New York at Morrisville, Morrisville, NY

2014      Instructor “Human Biology: Science, Society, and Art” (Fall / Spring), Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

2011      Instructor “The Constructed Body” Dept. of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2010      Instructor “Public Space” Dept. of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2008      Guest speaker  1st year Seminar  Paul Smith’s College. Paul Smiths, NY

Selected Bibliography

2018       “Remembering Our Fallen”  Our Town.  Amesbury, MA     https://youtu.be/ShKEkJSvkvQ  (21:16 – 30:36)

2017       “Local Artist Remembers Memorial Day”   Newburyport Daily News.  Amesbury, MA

               “Memorial Day Tribute to Fallen”  WBZ TV News, Boston, MA

               http://boston.cbslocal.com/video/3674685-amesbury-yard-transformed-into-memorial-day-tribute-to-fallen-of-21st-century/

2013       “Sunsets on Show at Allan Brooks”   Vernon Morning Star.  Vernon, BC, Canada

               “Temporal:  A New Pop Up Gallery in Ithaca” The Ithaca Times. Ithaca, NY

2012       “More ArtPrize Artists Come From All Over to Grace DeVos Place” DeVos Place Blog. Grand Rapids, MI

2011      “There are chimeras – no more either/or. The work of Ellen Rogers” The Third Ray.

2010      “Art Project at UB Remembers Soldiers Killed in Iraq, Afghanistan” Buffalo News Live. Buffalo,NY

2009      “The Human Cost” Hamilton County Express. Speculator, NY

2008      “Artist Remembers Fallen Soldiers on Veterans Day” Tri-Lakes Free Trader Today. Clinton, NY

Collections

               Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Syracuse, NY

               Alan Brooks Nature Centre, Vernon, BC, Canada

               Joan Weil Adirondack Library, Paul Smith’s College, Paul Smiths, NY

Lectures and Artist Talks

2019      “Africa, The Great Influencer” Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2018      “Art, Africa, and Animals” Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts University, N. Grafton, MA

               “Remembering Our Fallen” Amesbury Lion’s Club, Amesbury, MA

2015      “Africa to Art” Artist Series Blue Wave Gallery, Amesbury, MA

2013      “Art, Africa, and Animals” Sunset Speaker Series Allan Brooks Nature Centre BC, Canada

2012      “Art and Africa” Ignite International Sculpture Center Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL

               “Behind the Scenes: Production of Art and Nature” Visiting Artist, Edgewood College, Madison, WI

               “Nature and Other Myths” Science, Literature, and Arts Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI

2011      “Myth Making: Commodification of Nature Through African Wildlife Imagery” Wild Things: ‘Nature’ and the Social Imagination, European Association for Environmental History. Oxford University, England

               “Animalizing Art” Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2010       “The Giraffe and the Wheel” ArtPrize Petchakutcha (Frederick Meijer Sculpture Park) Grand Rapids, MI

Curatorial Projects

2009 -10 Gallery Director, Visual Studies Gallery.  University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

2009      Artist-In-Residence Curator Paul Smith’s College.  Paul Smiths, NY

Education

2012      MFA  Fine Arts University at Buffalo,  Buffalo, NY

2009      BFA  Sculpture Maine College of Art,  Portland, ME

1996      DVM  Doctor of Veterinary Medicine  Tufts University Veterinary School,  Grafton, MA

1987      BA  Mechanical Engineering Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Former Career

1993 – 2003   Wildlife Veterinarian focused on Wildlife Conservation in Africa