About
Biography
Ellen Wetmore (she, her) is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where you can get the best fish amok in Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Michigan (BFA, BA in Art History) and of Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), she moved to Massachusetts in 1995 and joined UMass Lowell in 2007 with tenure in 2014. She is a participant of CAA, UFVA, and Cultivamos Cultura. Her awards include a 2017 Berkshire Taconic ART Fellowship and a 2017 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. Her social concerns include neuro-atypical disabilities, race and teaching, money and art, and treatment of depression. Wetmore's current artistic practice reinterprets history and art history and investigates visual thinking. Wetmore’s projects have been featured at the Boston Cyberart's Art on the Marquee, the Indianapolis Art Center; the Sandwell Arts Trust; Ciné Lumière, London, CologneOff, Germany; the InShadow Festival, Lisbon, and Videoholica in Bulgaria. She is a 2012 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Fellow and a summer 2015 visiting artist at the American Academy of Rome. Her most recent solo exhibition was a drawing study of the collection at the Fitchburg Art Museum. Her current science collaborations explore printed, fabric-based video displays, text and memory in fat cells, and the characterization of high fire ceramic glazes in a Cambodian wood fired kiln. Her first graphic novel, Dante, a Divine Comedy, is a humorous account of the academic hiring process, edited by Jiba Molei Anderson.
