Ellen Holtzblatt
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EDUCATION

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Graduate Certificate in Art Therapy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

M.Ed, University of Illinois at Chicago

Maryland Institute, College of Art

Oxbow School of Art


SELECTED ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2012 Chicago Celebrates Women's History Month, Bucktown-Wicker Park Library,     Chicago, IL

2012 Solo Show, Congregation Solel, Highland Park, IL

2010 Woodcuts and Watercolors, Jewish Federation, South Bend, IN

2007 Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL

2006 Hamabul – The Flood, Cuentos Foundation, Chicago, IL

2004 The Flood, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

1983 The Iowa Gallery, Evanston, IL


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 15th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2012 Song of the Land, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Zerstreut in Alle Welt, Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2011 Multiple, Limited, Unique: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Center for Book Arts, New York, NY(traveling to Savannah College of Arts and Design, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Museum of Printing History, Lafayette College, and the Book Club of California)

2011 The Artful Network, Tom Robinson Gallery, Chicago, IL

2011 Summer Solstice Art Gallery Event, Stage 773, Chicago, IL

2011 Half-Truths Gallery, MAAF, Chicago, IL

2010 A Gathering of Water, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL

2010 PRINT, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Chicago, IL

2010 Wicker Park Grace, Chicago, IL

2010 Ravenswood Art Walk, Chicago, IL

2009 Mosaic, La Case de Arte y Cultera Calles y Suenos, Chicago, IL

2009 As the Spirit Moves You, The Art Center, Highland Park, IL

2008 28th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (Juried by Mark Pascale, Associate Curator of the Art Institute of Chicago)

2008 Insights into a Culture, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2008 A Minyan without Men, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 Cook County Treasurer's Office, Chicago, IL

2007 79th Annual Exhibition: Around the Palette, Old Town Art Center, Chicago, IL

2006 Ninth Annual Chicago Art Open, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, IL

2005 She Is…, Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, Chicago, IL

2005 Women's Works, Woodstock, IL

2004 Print National 2004, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA (Juried by Mark Pascale, Associate Curator at the Art Institute of Chicago)

2004 Impact on Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

2004 Seventh Annual Chicago Art Open, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, Chicago, IL

2004 American Jewish Artists Club Group Show, Temple Shalom, Chicago, IL

1997 Women's Works, Woodstock, IL

1997 Northwest Area Arts Council Members Show, Woodstock, IL

1995 Women's Works, Woodstock, IL

1995-1997 Old Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL

1987 Illinois Art Therapy Association Exhibition, Chicago, IL

1986 Illinois Art Therapy Association Group Show, Chicago, IL

1983 The 7th Annual Print and Drawing Exhibition, Harper College, Palatine, IL


AWARDS

2011, 2005, 2004 Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency

1997 Award, Northwest Area Arts Council Members Show


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Numerous public and private collections, including:

Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, IL

Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, South Bend, IN

Beth Hillel Congregation B’nai Emunah, Skokie, IL

McHenry County Jewish Congregation, Crystal Lake, IL


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

We Are Living in a Golden Age of Jewish Art and Don't Really Know It, Matthew Baigell, The Casden Journal, University of Southern California 2012

Featured Artist, Women's Caucus for Art website 2012

Catalogue, Multiple, Limited, Unique, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY 2011

Catalogue, Zerstreut in Alle Welt, Inselgalerie, Berlin, Germany 2011

Are We Living in the Golden Age of Jewish Art?, Matthew Baigell, The Forward, 2011

Judische Frauen in der bildenden Kunst IV (written by Hedwig Brenner; Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag,) 2011

Panel discussion, Art and Midrash, JCC, Manhattan, NY, 2010

Drawing for The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel (written by Benjamin Sommer; New York: Cambridge University Press,) 2009

Matthew Baigell,  Professor Emeritus of Art History at Rutgers University, from his forthcoming book

Catalogue, Hamabul - The Flood, Cuentos Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2006

Pauline Dubkin Yearwood, Chicago Jewish News, 2006

The Woodstock Independent, 1999