Ellen is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, working across printmaking, ceramics, and design. She holds a BFA in Illustration with a minor in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts and an M.A. in Art Education from Lehman College.
Her work began with traditional printmaking—etching, monotype, and woodcut—and has since expanded to include ceramics, where she explores both wheel-throwing and hand-building. Ellen works as a freelancer and, in her free time, enjoys painting as a form of creative expression. She also works in after-school programs around NYC.
Carranza is a member of the prestigious Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, in New York, NY. She has had exhibitions at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, IL, and the National Arts Club, NYCoo Gallery and the John Allan’s Gallery in New York, NY.
Her artwork has been published in several publications including the 2007 “Bridges” Forty Artist Collaborations RBPMW, the Society of Etchers Magazine, “Art of Persuasion”, and in the Illustration/ Cartooning 2004 Portfolio 25 of School of Visual Arts. Her artwork is included in the library of Congress and is in many private collections nationwide.