Ellen Shattuck Pierce
Ellen Shattuck Pierce is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves printmaking and its historical role in disseminating knowledge, its use as a decorative art, and its use as a medium for protest. She embraces all three of these aspects by using relief cuts to create allegorical scenes of American life in her prints, books and wallpaper installations.
Pierce graduated from University of Massachusetts Boston with a Bachelors in Art and Women’s Studies. Growing up in Rutland, Vermont but originally from Canada, she longed to return so she then moved to Toronto where she received a Master of Fine Arts at York University. She also received a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2022 she was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Her work has been shown in France, the United Arab Emirates, Cuba and Portugal. Pierce’s books and prints have been acquired by Kennesaw State University, Emory University, Baylor University, Michigan State University, Arkansas State University and the University of California Davis. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Mass. and Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba.