Ellen Woodbury

Ellen Woodbury carves one-of-a-kind stylized animals from a variety of white and colored marbles.  She sculpts in clay and casts to bronze when a compelling idea cannot be realized in stone.  Her work is in private and public collections nationwide.  Ellen is the 2019 recipient of the National Sculpture Society’s Marilyn Newmark Grant, awarded for a meritorious body of work in animal sculpture.  In 2019, she won the Evelyn and Peter Haller Award for the most creative 3-D work from the Society of Animal Artists.  Ellen’s first artistic incarnation was as a Directing Animator and Character Animator for twenty years at Walt Disney Feature Animation.  She was the first female Directing Animator in the history of the studio.  Ellen is a signature member of the Society of Animal Artists, Artists For Conservation, and American Women Artists, and an Elected Member of the National Sculpture Society.  Visit www.ellenwoodbury.com for more information.