Ellen Levine Dodd has been doing artwork all her life. She has had extensive education in painting, photography and fine art printing, studying with many well known painters, photographers, and digital printers. Her travels and studies have greatly influenced her art.

Ellen grew up in a small New England beach town near Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Clark University on an art scholarship, and studied painting at the Worcester Museum School, and photography at the Worcester Craft Center. During her junior year she took a sabbatical and traveled to Europe, Israel, and the Middle East, doing photgraphy and studying cultural differences. When she returned from her travels she attended Massachusetts College of Art, studying photography and printmaking with instructors including, Jerry Uelsman, Minor White, and Robert Frank. After another travel adventure touring the United States, working on a series of landscape drawings, she finished her formal education at Sonoma State University, studying painting with Walter Kuhlman, and William Morehouse, papermaking with Chuck Hilger, and gallery management with Bob Nugent. Ellen graduated on the National Dean's List, with highest honors from Sonoma State University and a BA in Fine Art with a double major in Painting and Photography.

Ellen worked for a short time as a studio assistant in the paper mill at Sonoma State University, creating paper pulp for many artists including Sam Francis and assisting in teaching workshops in papermaking with artists including Inez Storer. Ellen produced the 1981 Artisan's Guild Show at the Marin Civic Center, developed a consulting business working with many well know visual artists, musicians, and creative professionals. and developed and ran the Bradford Gallery in San Anselmo as gallery director. She has also worked in the digital imaging business specializing in Color Management and Large Format Printing. Ellen recently worked at EigerStudios, learning the art of digital printing from master printer and photographer Lenny Eiger, where she specialized in doing color pigment printing, photography and scanning. Currently she operates a business doing large format color printing in her art studio at the ICB Building in Sausalito. Her print buisiness, Critical Color has recently been accepted as an Adobe partner, under their authorized print service provider program. For more information visit website www.criticalcolor.com.

Ellen currently lives in Novato with her husband Joseph Drago. She maintains a painting and pigment printing studio, Studio 260, in the historic ICB building in Sausalito, California.