Ellen Ramsey

Ellen Ramsey

Born 1960, USA

Lives and works in Seattle, Washington

ramsey.ellen@gmail.com



Selected Group Exhibitions



2025

Fiber of Being, Culture Lab LIC, Long Island City, NY

American Tapestry Biennial 15, Chase Gallery, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL

Intersections & Diversions, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY

Gateway to the West, Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO

What's Going On? Tapestry Artists Speak Up, The Mills Building, San Francisco, CA

Fiber Between the Lines, Pacific Northwest Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA

Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound: Telling Their Stories, Postmark Center for the Arts, Auburn, WA

2024

CraftForms 2024, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

NWCraft24, The Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

Kate Derum International Award for Tapestry: 2024 Finalists, The Australian Tapestry Workshop, South Melbourne, AU

Heallreaf 5, traveling, Morley Gallery, London, UK, and others

VIII International Triennial of Textile Arts, Szombathely, Hungary

Woven Images, VU Gallery, Bellingham, WA

Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon, WA

2023   

Heroes and Villains, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA

International Fiber Arts XI, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

Small Expressions 2023, traveling, Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum, LaConnor, WA, and others

Wall Hanging, The Vestibule, Seattle, WA

Connections, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY

American Tapestry Biennial 14, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN

Tapestry Artists of Puget Sound, Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA

2022

Small Expressions 2022, traveling, UT Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN, and others

Clay & Textile, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY

72nd A-One, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT

Heallreaf 4, traveling, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester, UK, and others

2021  

More Impact: Climate Change, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA.

International Fiber Arts X, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA.

Weaving Re-Imagined, New Hope Arts, New Hope, PA.

Small Tapestry International 7: Elements, Gallery of Wood Art, St. Paul, MN; Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR.

2020  

Politically Charged, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA.

Fiber 2020, Silvermine Arts Center Gallery, New Canaan, CT.

Currents 2020: National Craft Exhibition, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

The Gold Standard of Textile and Fiber Art, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY


Selected Press


Amy Diplacido, What’s Going On: Woven Responses to a Tenuous World, Fiber Art Now FANfare blog, https://www.fiberartnow.net/blog/woven-responses-to-a-tenuous-world/, August 25, 2025

Julia Weber, CVA Opens New Exhibition "Intersections & Diversions" (artist interview). The Chautauquan Daily, July 22, 2025. 

Surface Design Association, "Exposure," Surface Design Journal, Spring 2025, p.37

Dye Sherpe, Chloe, NWCraft24, Art Access, vol.33 no.4. July-August 2024, p. 5

Cami Smith, Exploring the Creative Process: How Three Textile Artists Use Sketchbooks, Fiber Art Now FANfare blog, https://www.fiberartnow.net/blog/exploring-the-creative-process/, June 19, 2024

Spotlight: Ellen Ramsey Contemporary Tapestry Artisthttps://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-ellen-ramsey-contemporary-tapestry-artist/, 2023


Selected Bibliography

Peters Valley School of Craft, Timeless Textiles, Mediums Revealed Vol. 1, 2025

American Tapestry Alliance, American Tapestry Biennial 15,  2025

I Like Your Work, It’s Complicated: Summer Exhibition-in-Print,  2024

Heallreaf 5, exhibition catalog, 2024

American Tapestry Alliance, American Tapestry Biennial 14,  2023

Ceres Gallery, Connections, exhibition catalog, 2023

Heallreaf 4, exhibition catalog, 2022

Small Tapestry International 7: Elements, exhibition catalog, 2021

Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Currents 2020: National Craft Exhibition, 2020

The Common Threads Gallery, Transformation: Fiber as Medium. 2019


Selected Awards

Curator's Award, 2nd Place, Gateway to the West, 2025

American Tapestry Alliance Award, What's Going On?, 2025

Juror's Award of Merit, CraftForms, 2024

Finalist, Kate Derum International Award for Tapestry (AU), 2024

Honorable Mention, Small Expressions, 2023

Heallreaf Prize (UK), 2019


Education

Individual instruction in French classical tapestry technique with master weaver Mary Lane, (former Director of Education at the Scheuer Tapestry Studio, NYC, active 1982-1989), 1998-2001

MA, Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1990

Using Format