Ellyn Weiss is a painter and printmaker, curator, blogger and teacher, with studios in Mt. Ranier, MD and Truro, MA. She is represented by the Nevin Kelly Gallery Gallery in Washington, DC, has had more than 20 solo show and has participated in numerous juried and group exhibitions. Her most recent solo show in the fall of 2009, was composed of paintings made entirely of tar. “Twelve Linear Feet,” her abstract mural, is the largest painting in the District of Columbia City Hall Collection in the John A Wilson Building, a distinction in which she takes particular, if perhaps perverse, pleasure. Ellyn teaches encaustic (wax) painting at the Washington Glass School and in her studio and curates, with Sondra Arkin, the Zeitgeist series of exhibitions featuring artists responding to a selected issue important to our moment in time. Ellyn’s website is www.eweissart.com and she blogs as ww.GessoHead.org.