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Angela Ellsworth is an American artist. She has worked as a painter, a performance artist and as a maker of art objects. She is a descendant of Lorenzo Snow and was raised as a Mormon; some of her work relates to that upbringing. She is openly lesbian.
Ellsworth studied at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she received a bachelor's degree in fine art, and graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with a Master of Fine Arts degree in performance and painting.
Ellsworth has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, and at the Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona. She is one of the founders of the Museum of Walking, which occupies a small room at the Arizona State University Tempe campus. Four of Ellsworth's works are in the UMFA's[1] permanent collection.