Ellen Levenhagen
Biographical Info Ellen Levenhagen: Biography Ellen Levenhagen has been a studio partner with her husband Mark Kolinski for over 40 years. After graduating from Southern Illinois University where they studied ceramics with Harris Deller, they moved to Chicago and worked four years as studio assistants to Ruth Duckworth. Moving to Wisconsin in 1985, they began to show their work in Edgewood Gallery and traveled around the Midwest doing art fairs. In 1992, Mark and Ellen began their overseas life, spending 28 years teaching in international schools in Kuwait, Malaysia, Japan, China, Singapore, and Austria. They immersed themselves in the culture of each location, mining the rich visual language on offer and incorporating that language into their work. Both have shown their work at various galleries in the Midwest and are now owners of Clay on Steele, a ceramic studio and gallery in Algoma, WI. They balance their studio time with teaching classes and filling their passions by making pottery and ceramic arts.
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