ELISSA CALLEN
Born in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Holding Back & Letting Go, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Trueque, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2017
Trueque, Central Cultural del ISSSTE, Guanajuato, Go., Mexico
2016
Senior Painting Exhibition, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2015
Honeycomb, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
Resonant Conversations, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Open House, New York Studio Class, AICAD NYSRP Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Painting Expelled, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
Contagious, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2014
The 62nd Annual Visual Arts Scholarship Exhibition, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
RESIDENCIES
2020
Biohue Residency, Placerville, CA
2017
Aguas Migrants Art Residency, Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico
2015
New York Studio Class, ACAD Residency, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS
2022
East Bay Relief Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation
Artist Power Convenings, Artist Power Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2015
Ted Doyle Scholarship
2014
Faculty Honors Scholarship
Westerbeck Arts Scholarship
William B. Memorial Scholarship Award
EDUCATION
2016 BFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2023
Teaching assistant, Mushroom Dyes of the Northern California Fungal Fibershed with Alissa Allen,
Fibershed, Point Reyes, CA
2022
Teaching assistant, Indigo Extraction Process-from leaf to pigment with Judi Pettite, Fibershed,
Point Reyes, CA
Teaching assistant, Art and the Landscape: Colors of the NorCal Fibershed with Judi Pettite,
Fibershed, Point Reyes, CA
Cochineal dyeing in the Zapotec tradition with Porfirio Gutiérrez, Fibershed, Point Reyes, CA
Lake Pigments at Home, Natalie Stopka, Textile Art Center, Online
In Living Color: Pigments of the Past, Present, and Future, Julia Norton, NYC Crit Club, Online
Making Lake Pigments with Wild Plants, Karla Claudio-Betancourt, Herban Cura, Online
Mycopigments: An Exploration of Coastal Colors from Fungi, Alissa Allen, Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2020
Making Paints, Inks & Stains using Indigo, Judi Pettite, Fibershed, Online
Inkmaking and Foraging, Jason Logan, Albany Bulb, Albany, CA
2019
Botanical Inks and Lake Pigments, Judi Pettite, Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm, Santa Rosa, CA
Handmaking Botanical Watercolors, Judi Pettite, Tilden Regional Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA
2018
Ochre Mineral Pigment Foraging, Heidi Gustafson, Oakland, CA
Botanical Inks, Babs Behan, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA
2016
Modern Textile Design with California Native Plant Dyes, Sasha Duerr, Tilden Regional Parks Botanic
Garden, Berkeley, CA
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023
Instructor, Fungi Pigments, MSSF Mendocino Woodlands Camp, Mendocino, CA
Instructor, Invasive Inks: Autumnal Bay Area Invasive Plants, Fibershed, Point Reyes, CA
Instructor, Beautiful Weeds: Making Ink at Albany Bulb, Love the Bulb, Albany, CA
Instructor, Local Plant & Fungi Inks and Pigments, Cat + Raven, Thousand Oaks, CA
Instructor, Drawing Fungi: Scientific Illustration, Los Angeles Mycological Society, Los Angeles, CA
Instructor, Making Inks & Pigments from CA Fungi, Los Angeles Mycological Society, Los Angeles,CA
Instructor, Invasive Inks: Making Natural Inks and Pigments, Theodore Payne Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Instructor, Natural Pigments from California Fungi, McCloud Fungi Fair, McCloud, CA
Instructor, Exploring Northern California Fungi for Natural Dyes, Warner Mountain Weavers, Cedarville, CA
Instructor, CA Invasive Plants of Spring for Making Inks & Pigments, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA
Instructor, Making Inks Using CA Invasive Plants, Save the Bay, Oakland, CA
Instructor, Making Pigments from Fungi, Mycological Society of SF 50th Anniversary Fungi Fair
Instructor, Natural Dyes + Inks with California Fungi, SOMA Wild Mushroom Camp, Occidental, CA
2022
Instructor, Indigenous Los Angeles and Native Plants, New Roads School, Los Angeles, CA
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2022-Present
Founder, Executive Director, Mxt Collective Arts Collective for Creatives of Multicultural Ties
2022-2023
Botanical Pigment Maker, Fibershed
2017-Present
Natural Pigment Maker and Dyer, Freelance