Ellen Winkler is a print maker, painter and graphic designer who lives in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. She studied art during her undergraduate years at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. That educational experience afforded her the opportunity to live and work in New York City as a participant in the Great Lakes Colleges Association "Semester in New York”. She worked as an apprentice to the artist, Willard Midgette.
She came to the Washington area in 1977 to pursue a graduate degree at George Washington University, where she focused on Graphic Design. She was Art Director of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Opinion and Arts weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review and is retired. She is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
Though she has been deeply influenced by the artist Jack Boul, and has spent much time exploring monotypes as a means of responding to the landscape, she has recently been exploring, drypoint, copper engraving and etching. Her etchings particularly reflect recent drawings which are explorations of seen and unseen places.
Her work is held in the collections of The Library of Congress, Corbin and Pamela Gwaltney and Harold and Martha Quayle.
She came to the Washington area in 1977 to pursue a graduate degree at George Washington University, where she focused on Graphic Design. She was Art Director of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Opinion and Arts weekly magazine, The Chronicle Review and is retired. She is a member of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
Though she has been deeply influenced by the artist Jack Boul, and has spent much time exploring monotypes as a means of responding to the landscape, she has recently been exploring, drypoint, copper engraving and etching. Her etchings particularly reflect recent drawings which are explorations of seen and unseen places.
Her work is held in the collections of The Library of Congress, Corbin and Pamela Gwaltney and Harold and Martha Quayle.
Shows and Exhibitions
2022
Honorable Mention
Acrylic International Juried Exhibition
Kenosha Public Museum, Juror, John Jude Palencar,
2020 -
Finding Warfield
Solo exhibition at the Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick MD
2019 -
Juror's Choice Award
American Landscapes, 2019
Maryland Federation of Art, Juror, Jack Rasmussen
Recipient, Purchase grant from the DC Council for the Arts and Humanities, Art Bank Collection
Another View Paintings, prints and drawings, The Arts Club of Washington
Making Our Mark: Seven Artists present prints, drawings, paintings, assemblage and sculptureGroup Exhibition presented by The Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College, Annapolis
2018 -
Making Our Mark: Seven Artists present prints, drawings, paintings, assemblage and sculpture
Group Exhibition presented by BlackRock Center for the Arts
2017 -
National Small Works 2017
Group show at the Washington Print Foundation
Print Houston 2017: Making our Mark.
Group Juried Exhibition
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston Texas, June 10-24
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices Juried Regional Printmaking Exhibition featuring works by 53 artists
BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland
2016 -
Drawing Never Dies
Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado
2015 -
24th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition
2014-15
Artist-In-Residence, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
2012 -
PrintHouston NEXT
Solo Show, A Thing or Two - Washington Printmakers Gallery
American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking
Collection of Washington Printmakers Gallery
Lujiazui. Pudong, Shanghai
2011 -
Drawn to Washington, 2011, Sponsored by The Washinton Print Club and juried by Christine Neptune, Gallery owner.
11th Annual American Landscapes
Maryland Federation of Art
Juror: Jack Rasmussen, Director & Curator of the American
University Museum Katzen Art Center
Real People, 2011, juried by Dan Addington, of Dan Addington Gallery of Chicago and sponsored bythe Northwest Area Arts Council
Art at the X, National Juried Exhibition at Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio. Juror is Deborah Emont Scott, Director and CEO of the Taft Museum.
Group Show - Zigzag Gallery “Earth: the Artist’s Response Collaboration / Intervention / Transformation
2011 National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson University
Maryland Federation of Art, 34th Annual Art on Paper
2010 -
Art at the X, Xavier University
2008
Solo Show, Coming to the Edge - Washington Printmakers
Gallery
Maryland Federation of Art, Small Wonders Exhibition
Maryland Federation of Art, 8th annual American Landscapes
2007 -
60 Square Inches Purdue University
Drawn to Washington, Regional juried exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and The Washington Print Club
2005 -
IX Annual Georgetown International Fine arts Juried
Competition
Juried by Jack Rasmussen
Honorable Mention
People, Places and Things solo exhibition of prints, paintings
and drawings at The Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
58th Annual Color Print Show
2004 -
Dumbarton Concert Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings and prints
at Dumbarton United Methodist Church
in conjunction with The Dumbarton Concert Series
Maryland Federation of Art, Small Works, 2004
Capital Arts Network, Bethesda Maryland
Second Place
Maryland Federation of Art, Go Figure, National Figure Show
Maryland Federation of Art American Landscape, 2004
Touchstone Gallery Washington, DC, Original Prints
2003 -
Covington and Burling, Washington, DC “Washington Printmakers Gallery Group Show”
Bath County Art Show, Warm Springs, Virginia
Honorable Mention
2002 -
Seeing People, Being Seen, solo show, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
1997 -
Progressions: Recent Work Solo show, Washington Printmakers Gallery
1994
Exhibited in two-woman show, Gaithersburg Arts Council
Savage Mill Art Show, Savage Mill, MD
Parkside Ninth Annual Small Print Exhibition
1993
Audubon Artists Exhibit, New York, NY
Ocean City Annual, Ocean City, NJ
1985
AddArts Show, Washington, DC
1981
Graduate Thesis Show, George Washington University
Juried Exhibit, Arlington Arts Center
1980
Annual Student Show, George Washington University.
Awarded Morris M. Aein Memorial Prize in Drawing
Education -
B.A - 1973, Kalamazoo College. With honors in art
M.F.A. - 1981, George Washington University
Honorable Mention
Acrylic International Juried Exhibition
Kenosha Public Museum, Juror, John Jude Palencar,
2020 -
Finding Warfield
Solo exhibition at the Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick MD
2019 -
Juror's Choice Award
American Landscapes, 2019
Maryland Federation of Art, Juror, Jack Rasmussen
Recipient, Purchase grant from the DC Council for the Arts and Humanities, Art Bank Collection
Another View Paintings, prints and drawings, The Arts Club of Washington
Making Our Mark: Seven Artists present prints, drawings, paintings, assemblage and sculptureGroup Exhibition presented by The Mitchell Gallery at St. John's College, Annapolis
2018 -
Making Our Mark: Seven Artists present prints, drawings, paintings, assemblage and sculpture
Group Exhibition presented by BlackRock Center for the Arts
2017 -
National Small Works 2017
Group show at the Washington Print Foundation
Print Houston 2017: Making our Mark.
Group Juried Exhibition
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston Texas, June 10-24
Ink It: Contemporary Print Practices Juried Regional Printmaking Exhibition featuring works by 53 artists
BlackRock Center for the Arts, Germantown, Maryland
2016 -
Drawing Never Dies
Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, Colorado
2015 -
24th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition
2014-15
Artist-In-Residence, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
2012 -
PrintHouston NEXT
Solo Show, A Thing or Two - Washington Printmakers Gallery
American Impressions: Contemporary Printmaking
Collection of Washington Printmakers Gallery
Lujiazui. Pudong, Shanghai
2011 -
Drawn to Washington, 2011, Sponsored by The Washinton Print Club and juried by Christine Neptune, Gallery owner.
11th Annual American Landscapes
Maryland Federation of Art
Juror: Jack Rasmussen, Director & Curator of the American
University Museum Katzen Art Center
Real People, 2011, juried by Dan Addington, of Dan Addington Gallery of Chicago and sponsored bythe Northwest Area Arts Council
Art at the X, National Juried Exhibition at Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio. Juror is Deborah Emont Scott, Director and CEO of the Taft Museum.
Group Show - Zigzag Gallery “Earth: the Artist’s Response Collaboration / Intervention / Transformation
2011 National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson University
Maryland Federation of Art, 34th Annual Art on Paper
2010 -
Art at the X, Xavier University
2008
Solo Show, Coming to the Edge - Washington Printmakers
Gallery
Maryland Federation of Art, Small Wonders Exhibition
Maryland Federation of Art, 8th annual American Landscapes
2007 -
60 Square Inches Purdue University
Drawn to Washington, Regional juried exhibition, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center and The Washington Print Club
2005 -
IX Annual Georgetown International Fine arts Juried
Competition
Juried by Jack Rasmussen
Honorable Mention
People, Places and Things solo exhibition of prints, paintings
and drawings at The Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
58th Annual Color Print Show
2004 -
Dumbarton Concert Gallery. Exhibition of Paintings and prints
at Dumbarton United Methodist Church
in conjunction with The Dumbarton Concert Series
Maryland Federation of Art, Small Works, 2004
Capital Arts Network, Bethesda Maryland
Second Place
Maryland Federation of Art, Go Figure, National Figure Show
Maryland Federation of Art American Landscape, 2004
Touchstone Gallery Washington, DC, Original Prints
2003 -
Covington and Burling, Washington, DC “Washington Printmakers Gallery Group Show”
Bath County Art Show, Warm Springs, Virginia
Honorable Mention
2002 -
Seeing People, Being Seen, solo show, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
1997 -
Progressions: Recent Work Solo show, Washington Printmakers Gallery
1994
Exhibited in two-woman show, Gaithersburg Arts Council
Savage Mill Art Show, Savage Mill, MD
Parkside Ninth Annual Small Print Exhibition
1993
Audubon Artists Exhibit, New York, NY
Ocean City Annual, Ocean City, NJ
1985
AddArts Show, Washington, DC
1981
Graduate Thesis Show, George Washington University
Juried Exhibit, Arlington Arts Center
1980
Annual Student Show, George Washington University.
Awarded Morris M. Aein Memorial Prize in Drawing
Education -
B.A - 1973, Kalamazoo College. With honors in art
M.F.A. - 1981, George Washington University