Ellie Irons

Eliza Moore Fellow, 2019

Ellie Irons is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Arts Practice, focusing on Public Fieldwork, urban ecology, and socially engaged art, at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

Ellie’s work sits at the intersection of socially engaged art and urban ecology. As an Eliza Moore Fellow, she extended work on her Feral and Invasive Pigments project, which involved making watercolor paint from the leaves, petals, and berries of spontaneous plants growing in urban areas or places otherwise impacted by human activity. To learn more about Ellie, click here.