2018
Ellen Driscoll, the recipient of the ISC’s 2018
Outstanding Educator Award, applies
a unique approach to storytelling and an
inventive use of materials to her public
artworks and smaller studio sculptures. In
her practice, drawing and sculpture are
interconnected and cross-pollinate to open
up new ideas and forms. Whether working
in ghostly white plastic, mosaic, or walnut
and sumi inks, her projects fluidly map
place and time while mining historical, environmental,
and cultural themes. Over a
decade ago, she began to take on issues of
consumption, excess, and the effects of the
petrochemical industry. More recently, she
has introduced the resilience displayed by
the natural world in the face of sociopolitical
threats.
