Ellie Iorio is a 21 year old artist and rower studying Biology and Studio Art on the Pre-Med track at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up with an artistic eye inspired by the natural world around her. The striking blues, sweeping peninsulas, and clear skies of her childhood in the Great Lakes region served as the subject matter for the founding of her fiber art business in 2016. 

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From a young age, Ellie pursued different art mediums at nearby Kendall College every summer through week-long art camps and attended Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in summer 2015. She is an award winner of the Sooper Yooper art contest, an event centered around environmental issues in Michigan and hosted by the GRAM.

 

Since 2017, she and her mom have sold their respective artwork at art shows across Northern Michigan in the summer season. In 2018 and 2019, Ellie's artwork was exhibited at the Festival Regional Arts Exhibition at Kendall College in Grand Rapids, MI.  

In April 2019, she was selected as the first youth artist for the Preserved! project, alongside 15 other acclaimed artists. They were challenged to visit any of the conservancy’s 149 preserved parcels of land and create nature-inspired art to be displayed and sold in two exhibitions in Fall 2019 to benefit the conservancy. In 2020, she won a Gold Key for her Art Portfolio and two Silver Keys for Individual Works in the 2020 MI Scholastic Art Competition.

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