Ellen Carver is an award-winning artist: most recently 3rd place Philadelphia Sketch Club, 2022.
In early 2000, Carver founded Crafts for Living, a non-profit organization focusing on local craft artists, and ran it successfully until 2007. That experience compelled her to return to the studio where she immersed herself in handmade paper, textiles and found objects. She has been in many juried exhibitions and is in the permanent collection of New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia and private collections.
Her professional career included: Director of Communications, National Constitution Center, Director of Public Relations, Four Seasons Hotel and The Rittenhouse Hotel, both AAA Five Diamond Hotels
Carver and her late husband Neil collected American folk art. Her love for the colors, pattern and graphics of quilts greatly influenced her artwork.
In 1998 she took up the sport of rowing. Her scenes of the Schuylkill echo the images of the river environment. Her rowing series won several awards.
Carver served on the boards of many arts and cultural organizations. She is President/Co-director of the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta, Philadelphia’s largest regatta.