Ellis, Anita J.

PERSONAL:

Education: Ohio Dominican University, A.B., 1970; University of Cincinnati, M.A., 1975.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45202.E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer and curator. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, director of curatorial affairs and curator of decorative arts, 1974—.

MEMBER:

American Association of Museums, American Ceramic Circle (member of board of trustees), Ohio Historic Decorative Arts Association (member of board of trustees), Decorative Arts Society of Cincinnati (founding member; member of board of trustees), Art League of Cincinnati (member of board of trustees).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Florence Roberts Head Book of the Year award, 1992, for the catalogue Rookwood Pottery: The Glorious Gamble; Distinguished alumna award, Ohio Dominican University, 2000; Best of the New Award, Cincinnati, and We Are Much Pleased Award, Victorian Society of America, Ohio Valleychapter, both 2003, for work on Cincinnati Wing of Cincinnati Art Museum; named career woman of achievement, Young Women's Christian Association, 2004.

WRITINGS:

Illusions in Glass: The Art of Christopher Ries,Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH), 1988.

Rookwood Pottery: The Glorious Gamble, Rizzoli International (New York, NY), 1992.

Rookwood Pottery: The Glaze Lines, Schiffer Publishing (Atglen, PA), 1995.

(Managing editor and contributor) The Collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH), 2000.

Treasures for a Queen: A Millennium Gift to Cincinnati,Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH), 2001.

The Ceramic Career of M. Louise McLaughlin, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 2003.

Contributor to books, including The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

"Rookwood and the Native American," an exhibition catalog.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Colonial Homes, February, 1996, Kenneth Hunt, review of Rookwood Pottery: The Glaze Lines,p. 22.

Winterthur Portfolio, summer-autumn, 2003, Nancy E. Owen, review of The Ceramic Career of M. Louise McLaughlin, p. 173.