NEW!
We're going to ArtPrize for the second year in a row! Scroll down for more info.
“When you make art, your soul connects with the earth and with other beings, past, present and future. You hold wool in your hands that is the gift of some sheep and the product of the grass she eats and the air she breathes. You take stitches in the same way women have been taking stitches for thousands of years, making clothes for their families and beautiful objects for their homes, churches and communities. You organize objects in your painting the same way a bird builds a nest. You gaze upon a sculpture that was made five hundred years ago and realize that you understand what the artist was thinking. You open eyes to new ways of thinking. You change the world, and you change yourself.”
Ellen Rosewall
Artist, Writer, Teacher
This site represents my current work - art, craft, writing, and more. Click on a tab above to see art projects and get news about my current activities. Please note: I do not sell work on this site. If you are interested in commissioning artwork, please contact me at erosewall5232@gmail.com. A variety of knitted items and other fiber artwork can be found in my Etsy shop at www.etsy.com/sheepshapecreations.
Latest News!
Last September, Karen Eckberg and I showed our collaboration, Triptych Aerie, at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids. This year, we are very proud to announce that we added a collaborator to our team, sculptor Naomi Moes. Our work, a bust of Medusa, was accepted and will be exhibited at ArtPrize 2025 at the Atrium at Uccello's, right across from the Grand Rapids Art Museum. We are so excited! If you're in the Grand Rapids area, please visit and vote for our work!
ArtPrize is an international public art exhibition which takes place every September in Grand Rapids, Michigan. With over 900 accepted entries, the city itself becomes the venue with galleries, restaurants, event centers, banks, and parks hosting work. More info at www.artprize.org
Images from last September's event
About Ellen
Ellen Rosewall’s life has been dedicated to the arts ever since she took her first piano lesson at age 7. Since then, she has been a student, teacher, performer, artist, director, manager, author and advocate, passionately dedicated to sharing her love for all forms of art and their transformative power in individuals and communities.
After moving to Green Bay in 1992, Ellen worked for the Green Bay Botanical Garden and the Weidner Center until she was hired to develop an arts management degree program at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2001. She chaired and taught this program until her retirement in 2019, after which she developed and taught online courses for LeMoyne College, the University of Kentucky and Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of Arts Management: Uniting Arts and Audiences in the 21st Century, a textbook which is recognized as one of the standard texts of the field, and which has been adopted by colleges and universities throughout the United States, Canada and Asia. She has served on boards of directors including the Association of Arts Administration Educators, Arts Wisconsin, the Art Garage, Weidner Center Presents, and Wisconsin Public Radio Association.
As an artist, Ellen works in textiles, mixed media, and a variety of drawing and painting media. Her mandala murals, Seasons, can be seen at Triangle Park in Green Bay, and her collection of mixed media bird’s nests were shown at the Artless Bastard in DePere and in the office of Green Bay mayor Eric Genrich. She has exhibited in shows at UWGB’s Lawton Gallery, St. Norbert College’s Baer Gallery, the Art Garage (Green Bay), New Visions Gallery (Marshfield), Langdon Divers Gallery (Fond du Lac), UW-Wisconsin Union (Madison) and Woman Made Gallery (Chicago). She has also participated in several national craftivist projects including the Exquisite Uterus Project, the Protest Banner Lending Library, the Sketchbook Project, 5.4 million and Countingand the Welcome Blanket Project. Her work with ceramicist Karen Eckberg has been exhibited at the Art Garage and the Miller Art Museum, and won first prize in the Art Garage's Collaboration exhibit. Their work Triptych Aerie was also seen at ArtPrize 2024, an international exhibit in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Another collaborative work, Medusa, is scheduled to be at ArtPrize from September 18-October 4.
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Ellen writes book reviews for a variety of publishers and organizations including NetGalley(.com) and several professional and art-related publications.
