Ellyn Weiss

Ellyn Weiss is a visual artist in two and three dimensions and an independent curator. She has had over 25 solo or featured shows and has participated in numerous juried and curated exhibitions. Ellyn works with a wide variety of materials; the materials used in recent shows include wax, oil bar, dry pigment, wire, plastic dip and tar.

Weiss’s work has for many years been inspired by the imagery of biological and natural structures. Much of her recent work deals with the effects of global climate change. With various collaborators, she has created installations dealing with the effects of the melting of the polar ice cap, the destruction of coral reefs worldwide and the migration of infectious diseases. She is currently working on a project focusing on the climate change-caused migration of people.

Ellyn is the co-founder of ArtWatch, a group of DC-area artists committed to using their visual communication skills to assert the best values of democracy: inclusion, openness and tolerance. She led a collaboration of 300 artists on the One House Project, an installation celebrating the unique strength that diversity brings to America. It was exhibited at the Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC, in 2017 and at the Black Rock Gallery in Germantown, MD, in 2018.

Ellyn serves on the Board of Directors of the Union of Concerned Scientists, is Co-Chair of the Board of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and was a founding member of the Board of the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.