Carson Ellis and Hank Meloy: Introduction to Galactic Alienology
Carson Ellis and Hank Meloy: Introduction to Galactic Alienology
November 2016 - January 2017
Introduction to Galactic Alienology features work by artist, Carson Ellis and her son, Hank Meloy. The show is a collaboration between Ellis, PSU students and students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School. The work is inspired by interviews between Ellis and her son Hank and includes pieces portraying Hank’s and MLK Jr. students' imagined alien creatures.
Carson Ellis is an illustrator and author based in Portland, OR. Ellis is known for her work in The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, The Wildwood Chronicles by Ellis’ husband, Colin Meloy and New York Times bestseller Home, the first book authored and illustrated by Ellis.
Carson Ellis is the author and illustrator of the bestselling picture books Home and Du Iz Tak? (a Caldecott Honor book and the recipient of an E.B. White Read Aloud Award). She has illustrated a number of books for kids including bestsellers The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, The Composer Is Dead by Lemony Snicket, and The Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy (who happens to be her husband). Carson has been awarded silver medals by the Society of Illustrators for her work on Wildwood Imperium and on Dillweed's Revenge by Florence Parry Heide. She's the illustrator-in-residence for Colin's band, The Decemberists, and received a Grammy nomination in 2016 for the design of their last LP, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. She's also an occasional maker of editorial illustration, having worked for The New York Times, Poetry Magazine, and The New Yorker, among many others, and an even more occasional fine artist represented by Nationale in Portland. Carson lives on a farm in Oregon with Colin, their two sons, one cat, two llamas, two goats, one sheep, ten chickens, a family of barn owls and an unfathomable multitude of tree frogs.
Exhibition Opening of Introduction to Galactic Alienology
Aliens drawn by students in a workshop led by Carson Ellis
