Speaker: Ella Weber

Date: Friday, November 15

Time: 12 pm

Location: Webster University, 8300 Big Bend Blvd., Sverdrup Hall, Room 123

Ella Weber is a basement-based artist who uses humor, performance, and storytelling within her practice. Playfully upending the existential fabrics of daily life, Weber transforms her minimum-wage day jobs into her studio. Beyond the studio, she has attended residencies at MASS MoCA, The NARS Foundation, Rogers Art Loft, Munson, Ox-Bow School of Art, The Wassaic Project, and Anderson Ranch. The artist has exhibited in group exhibitions at IPCNY (New York, NY), Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), and Contemporary Arts Center, (Cincinnati, OH). Recent solo shows include exhibitions at Munson (Utica, NY), The Union for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), and Plains Art Museum (Fargo, ND). Weber received an MFA from the University of Kansas and resides in Omaha, Nebraska.