Elinor Freedman
Elinor Freedman is a Cape Cod washashore where she is inspired by the beauty of the landscape and creative energy of fellow artists. While Ellie has explored a variety of mediums, she is drawn to the vibrancy and immediacy of working with pastel. Using soft pastel on sanded papers or textured boards and acrylic or watercolor underpaintings, Ellie’s pastels show a range of effects that bring her paintings to life. She has exhibited her work in juried exhibits in New England and New York. She is represented by Eastwind Gallery, Orleans, MA, Elburne Sustainable Decor, Dennis & Hanover, MA, and the Shop at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA..
Ellie is a juried master artist at the Cape Cod Art Center, a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists, and an associate member of the Pastel Society of America as well as a member of the Connecticut Pastel Society, Pastel Society of New Hampshire and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod for which she has served as a board member and coordinates a scholarship program for high school students who aspire to careers in the arts. Ellie also serves as a docent and co-facilitator of docent training at the Cape Cod Museum of Art where she has collaborated with docents to curate museum exhibits.
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Recent Juried Exhibits & Awards
Recent juried exhibits and awards
2016 Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Juried Show-Balancing Act, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2016 Yarmouth Art Guild Spring Exhibition, juried exhibit, Honorable Mention Award
2016 All Cape Cod, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2016 For Pastels Only, national open juried exhibit, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
2016 All Cape Cod, juried exhibit, Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA
2016 The National, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2016 It’s Pastel, national open juried exhibit, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH
2016 Artist Showcase Presentation for Yarmouth Art Guild, Cultural Center, South Yarmouth, MA
2017 Class Act, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA, 1st place prize for pastel,
2017 Winter Glow, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA, Honorable Mention Award
2017 For Pastels Only, national open juried exhibit, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
2017 All Cape Cod, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Association, Honorable Mention Award
2017 Purely Pastel, juried exhibit, Connecticut Pastel Society, Old Lyme, CT, Board of Directors Award
2017 All Cape Cod, juried exhibit, Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA
2017 10th Annual UArt Online Juried Exhibit-selected as one of 100 from over 700 entries
2017 The National, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2017 All New England, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2017 Pure Color 2017, international juried online exhibit, Pastel Society of North Carolina
2017 Renaissance in Pastel, national juried exhibit, Connecticut Pastel Society, Arts Center East, Vernon, CT
2017 It’s Pastel, national juried exhibit, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH
2017 Yarmouth Art Guild Fall Exhibition, Cultural Center, South Yarmouth, MA, 2nd prize
2018 National Association of Women Artists Winter Small Works, a Juried exhibit, New York, NY
2018 Yarmouth Art Guild Spring Exhibition, juried exhibit, 2nd prize
2018 Master Artist Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2018 Bay State Open, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2018 Heritage Museum & Gardens, Select Exhibit with Sandwich Arts Alliance, Sandwich, MA
2018 For Pastels Only, national open juried exhibit, Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod
2018 National Association of Women Artists Summer Small Works, a Juried exhibit, New York, NY
2018 It’s Pastel, national open juried exhibit, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH
2018 National Association of Women Artists 129th Annual Juried Members Show, New York, NY
2018 International Association of Pastel Societies 33rd Juried Exhibition-The 2018 Web Show
2019 Real Time, juried exhibit, National Association of Women Artists, MA Chapter, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Bon Appetit, Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Juried Show, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
2019 Opposites Attract, juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA, 2nd prize for pastel
2019 2019 Places & Spaces, juried exhibit, The AlteRnaTive Art Space in SoWa Art & Design District, Boston, MA
2019 All Cape Cod, juried exhibit, Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA
2019 The National, national open juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
2019 Windows & Doors, juried exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, Honorable Mention Award
2019 It’s Pastel, national open juried exhibit, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH
2019 HUE-MAN-IZE Moakley Federal Courthouse Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 Lust After, juried exhibit, Fountain St. Gallery, SOWA Arts District, Boston, MA
2020 Pastel Expressions, a solo show, Helen Bumpus Gallery, Duxbury, MA
2020 60 Over 60, juried exhibit of women's art, Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
2020 Figuratively Speaking, North River Arts Society, Marshfiled Hills, MA
