Sally Elliott: About

Sally Elliott has been exhibiting locally and nationally for over forty years. She was a founding member of Front Range Women in the Visual Arts, which produced a statewide celebration in 1987 including the visual arts, music, dance and theatre. She also worked with the original group of women who organized Front Range Women in the visual Arts on a major anniversary exhibition for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in June/July of 2000. Sally is also a long time member of Spark Cooperative Gallery in Denver where she exhibits yearly. In 2016 she was one of the honorees for the Dairy Arts Centers award in Boulder, in 2002 she was awarded a three-week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, in 2004 she was a recipient of a fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, a Boulder Arts Commission Grant in 1992 and in 1985 was awarded a year as an associate at the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute. In 2016 she was on the steering committee that produced “A History of the Visual Arts in Boulder”, which exhibited over 300 visual arts at 18 venues. She has also been a visiting artist/lecturer at several colleges and universities across the United States. Prior to teaching at the University of Colorado at Boulder she taught at other universities and colleges in the United States. From 1999 to 2011 she was on the Drawing and Painting faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received professor of the year in 2006. She has been juried into The American Art Collector published by Alcove Books in Berkeley, California from 2006-2010. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including IBM Corporate Art Collection, United Airlines, and Kenyon College in Ohio, Front Range Community College and Kaiser Permanente in Denver, CO. She currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.