born Mildura, Australia, 1980
lives and works in Houston, Texas
E D U C A T I O N
2005
BA Magna cum laude Art History
BA Magna cum laude English - Creative Writing
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
2004
Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain
E X H I B I T I O N S & S C R E E N I N G S
2015
The Things I Need, FrenetiCore Theatre, Performance organized and curated by Vicki Fowler, Houston, TX
Celebrating Texas Art, Williams Tower, Juried by Dean Sobel, Director Clyfford Still Museum, Houston, TX
QuiltCon 2015, The Modern Quilt Guild, Austin, TX
2014
The Quilt Show, solo exhibition, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX
Calm West, solo exhibition, The Jung Center, Houston, TX
2012
Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX
Pop up show with Art Palace Gallery, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
The Hunting Prize Gala, Houston, TX
2011
Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX
2010
Slight Chance of Snow, solo exhibition, 13 celsius, Houston, TX
2007
Pushing the Envelope: A Drawing Show, Williams Tower, Curated by Sally Sprout, Houston, TX
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, Juried by Rita Gonzalez, LACMA, CA
Radical Nautical, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX
10th Extremely Short Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, Juried by Jyette Jensen, MoMA, NY
Light, M2 Gallery, Houston, TX
Optophonique,Cantanker Magazine & Salvage Vanguard,Curated by Christina Hiett,Austin, TX
2006
The Greatest Secrets, solo exhibition, Art Palace Gallery, Austin, TX
Faces of Austin at City Hall, Austin Film Society & the City of Austin Cultural Projects, Austin, TX
Dougherty Arts School Exhibition, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX
2005
The Evidence of Silence Broken by Zell Miller III, musical contributor, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX
He Said/ She Said, Gallery Lombardi, Juried by Derek Boshier, Austin, TX
Monkey Wrench Books, Austin, TX
2004
Ladyfest Biblebelt Film Festival, Texas Women’s College, Denton, TX
Ladyfest Texas Film Festival, The Hideout Theatre, Austin, TX
2003
Starseeds, Austin, TX
P U B L I C A T I O N, C U R A T O R I A L & E D I T O R I A L W O R K
2011
Ana Serrano - Salon of Beauty, Literal Magazine winter issue, Houston, TX
The Sky is the Limit- A Conversation with American Sculptor John Henry, Literal Magazine, summer issue, Houston, TX
2009
SPOT Magazine fall issue, Copy Editor, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2008
Mined in China by Susan Meiselas and Orville Schell with MAGNUM PHOTOS for FOTOFEST 2008, construction of textiles for exhibition support, Houston Center for Photography, Houston,TX
Houston Photo Club, Judge with Madeline Yale with Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX Episcopal High School Senior Photography Exhibition, Judge, Houston TX
2007
We Are All From Here, Curated with Madeline Yale, Produced and presented by Lawndale Art Center, Houston Center for Photography and Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX
Txt Me L8r, Curatorial collaboration with Aurora Picture Show at Houston Center for Photography,Houston, TX
SPOT Magazine Summer Issue, Leavin’ A Testimony by Patsy Cravens book review, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2006
Fluent Collaborative Issue 72, Writing from Australia- Contemporary Arts Center of South Australia, Austin, TX
LuAnn Barrow: Soul Journers Exhibition Catalog, Editorial assistance to Dr. James Housefield,, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Artlies: Texas Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 50, San Marcos Review, Mildred Howard: Crossings & In the Line of Fire, Houston, TX
Artlies: Texas Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 49, San Marcos Review, Cig Harvey & Tom Sale: Figuratively Speaking, Houston, TX
2005
New Art in Austin: 22 to Watch Exhibition Catalog, Editorial assistance to Dr. James Housefied, Austin Museum of Art,Austin, TX
Persona, Literary Journal of Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
University Star newspaper of Texas State University, publication of 12 art features and reviews, San Marcos, TX
2004
Persona, Literary Journal of Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2003
Persona, Literary Journal of Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
P U B L I C L E C T U R E S
2018
A Talk about Hand Quilting, Golden Needles Quilting Guild, Conroe, TX
2015
Textiles and Quilting, lecture to the students at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
2013
Introducing Campfire Quilts, speaker, Maker Meet Up, Houston, TX
2012
The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Campus, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2007
The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2006
The Cognizant Eye, Texas State Arts & Culture Lecture Series, Issues in Contemporary Art, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2005
From Maya to the Living Room: Cinema of the American Avant Garde with Dustin Smith, Texas State Arts & Culture Lecture Series,Issues in Contemporary Art, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
P R E S S
2016
Campfire Quilts in Quilter's Spotlight, Half Square Headlines by Michelle Bartholemew
2015
Campfire Quilts, Made in Texas by Lauren Ford Smith, Texas Monthly Magazine, December Issue, Austin, TX
The Art of Fun, Campfire Quilts included in the home of Jill Smith and Wooch Graff, PaperCity Magazine, Houston, TX
2014
Go Outside, KnitWit Magazine Issue 1, Los Angeles, CA
Art You Can Sleep With by Michael Hardy, Houstonia Magazine, Houston, TX
Houston Modern Luxury, Artist mention. Houston, TX
2012
The University Star, Texas State University newspaper. Alumna Ebony Porter gives Q&A. San Marcos, TX
2011
Houston Press, Volume 23, Number 51, "Super MARKET," review by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston, TX
Midtown Paper, 1st Quarter, "Slight Chance of Snow at 13 Celsius," Houston, TX
2007
Arts Houston, Volume 8 No.12, “Pushing the Envelope,” review by R.Eric Davis, Houston, TX
Houston Press, Volume 19, Number 30, “Jury Duty,” review by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston, TX
2006
Yorke Peninsula Country Times, “Artist Discovers Our Beauty,” Kadina, Australia
Fluent Collaborative Issue 62, …Might Be Good, Austin, TX
Salvador Castillo Word Press, “Ebony Porter -The Greatest Secrets,”www.salvadorcastillo.wordpress.com, Austin, TX
Music Entertainment Television, New Media Review - Artist in Focus, Austin, TX
2005
KUT Radio, Interview with Julie Moody – “Faces of Austin Winner,” Austin, TX
P R O F E S S I O N A L A F F I L I A T I O N S & E X P E R I E N C E
2015- present
Marketing Writer, Power Wizard + Next Era Energy, Houston, TX / Juno Beach, FL
2019 - present
Marketing Writer, Direct Energy, Houston, TX
2014-07
Marketing Coordinator, Bayou Village School, Houston, TX
2013
Chair, Garden Council, Bayou Village School, Houston, TX
2006-10
Publication Committee member for SPOT Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2008
FOTOFEST Reviewer with Madeline Yale for Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2006-08
Program Coordinator, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2006-08
Exhibition Committee member, Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX
2005-06
Classroom & Research Assistant, Dr. James Housefield, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2001-06
Registrar, Dougherty Arts School, Austin, TX
2003
Studio Assistant, Ishamel Soto, Blue, TX
HYDROPHONO internet radio show, DJ, Radio One Austin, Austin, TX
Wardrobe Assistant, Untitled Football Project, dir. Richard Linklater, Detour Film Productions, Austin, TX
2002
Art Therapy Summer Assistant, Marnie Paul Arts Center, Austin, TX
Private Art Instructor, Austin, TX
1997-98
Seamstress, Handmaiden Custom Quilting, Kingwood, TX
lives and works in Houston, Texas
E D U C A T I O N
2005
BA Magna cum laude Art History
BA Magna cum laude English - Creative Writing
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
2004
Universitas Castellae, Valladolid, Spain
E X H I B I T I O N S & S C R E E N I N G S
2015
The Things I Need, FrenetiCore Theatre, Performance organized and curated by Vicki Fowler, Houston, TX
Celebrating Texas Art, Williams Tower, Juried by Dean Sobel, Director Clyfford Still Museum, Houston, TX
QuiltCon 2015, The Modern Quilt Guild, Austin, TX
2014
The Quilt Show, solo exhibition, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX
Calm West, solo exhibition, The Jung Center, Houston, TX
2012
Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX
Pop up show with Art Palace Gallery, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX
The Hunting Prize Gala, Houston, TX
2011
Art Market, Art Palace Gallery, Houston, TX
2010
Slight Chance of Snow, solo exhibition, 13 celsius, Houston, TX
2007
Pushing the Envelope: A Drawing Show, Williams Tower, Curated by Sally Sprout, Houston, TX
The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX, Juried by Rita Gonzalez, LACMA, CA
Radical Nautical, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX
10th Extremely Short Film Festival, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, Juried by Jyette Jensen, MoMA, NY
Light, M2 Gallery, Houston, TX
Optophonique,Cantanker Magazine & Salvage Vanguard,Curated by Christina Hiett,Austin, TX
2006
The Greatest Secrets, solo exhibition, Art Palace Gallery, Austin, TX
Faces of Austin at City Hall, Austin Film Society & the City of Austin Cultural Projects, Austin, TX
Dougherty Arts School Exhibition, Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, TX
2005
The Evidence of Silence Broken by Zell Miller III, musical contributor, Hyde Park Theatre, Austin, TX
He Said/ She Said, Gallery Lombardi, Juried by Derek Boshier, Austin, TX
Monkey Wrench Books, Austin, TX
2004
Ladyfest Biblebelt Film Festival, Texas Women’s College, Denton, TX
Ladyfest Texas Film Festival, The Hideout Theatre, Austin, TX
2003
Starseeds, Austin, TX
P U B L I C A T I O N, C U R A T O R I A L & E D I T O R I A L W O R K
2011
Ana Serrano - Salon of Beauty, Literal Magazine winter issue, Houston, TX
The Sky is the Limit- A Conversation with American Sculptor John Henry, Literal Magazine, summer issue, Houston, TX
2009
SPOT Magazine fall issue, Copy Editor, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2008
Mined in China by Susan Meiselas and Orville Schell with MAGNUM PHOTOS for FOTOFEST 2008, construction of textiles for exhibition support, Houston Center for Photography, Houston,TX
Houston Photo Club, Judge with Madeline Yale with Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX Episcopal High School Senior Photography Exhibition, Judge, Houston TX
2007
We Are All From Here, Curated with Madeline Yale, Produced and presented by Lawndale Art Center, Houston Center for Photography and Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX
Txt Me L8r, Curatorial collaboration with Aurora Picture Show at Houston Center for Photography,Houston, TX
SPOT Magazine Summer Issue, Leavin’ A Testimony by Patsy Cravens book review, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2006
Fluent Collaborative Issue 72, Writing from Australia- Contemporary Arts Center of South Australia, Austin, TX
LuAnn Barrow: Soul Journers Exhibition Catalog, Editorial assistance to Dr. James Housefield,, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Artlies: Texas Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 50, San Marcos Review, Mildred Howard: Crossings & In the Line of Fire, Houston, TX
Artlies: Texas Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 49, San Marcos Review, Cig Harvey & Tom Sale: Figuratively Speaking, Houston, TX
2005
New Art in Austin: 22 to Watch Exhibition Catalog, Editorial assistance to Dr. James Housefied, Austin Museum of Art,Austin, TX
Persona, Literary Journal of Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
University Star newspaper of Texas State University, publication of 12 art features and reviews, San Marcos, TX
2004
Persona, Literary Journal of Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2003
Persona, Literary Journal of Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
P U B L I C L E C T U R E S
2018
A Talk about Hand Quilting, Golden Needles Quilting Guild, Conroe, TX
2015
Textiles and Quilting, lecture to the students at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
2013
Introducing Campfire Quilts, speaker, Maker Meet Up, Houston, TX
2012
The Artist's Eye: Ebony Porter on the Menil Campus, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2007
The Big Slide Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2006
The Cognizant Eye, Texas State Arts & Culture Lecture Series, Issues in Contemporary Art, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2005
From Maya to the Living Room: Cinema of the American Avant Garde with Dustin Smith, Texas State Arts & Culture Lecture Series,Issues in Contemporary Art, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
P R E S S
2016
Campfire Quilts in Quilter's Spotlight, Half Square Headlines by Michelle Bartholemew
2015
Campfire Quilts, Made in Texas by Lauren Ford Smith, Texas Monthly Magazine, December Issue, Austin, TX
The Art of Fun, Campfire Quilts included in the home of Jill Smith and Wooch Graff, PaperCity Magazine, Houston, TX
2014
Go Outside, KnitWit Magazine Issue 1, Los Angeles, CA
Art You Can Sleep With by Michael Hardy, Houstonia Magazine, Houston, TX
Houston Modern Luxury, Artist mention. Houston, TX
2012
The University Star, Texas State University newspaper. Alumna Ebony Porter gives Q&A. San Marcos, TX
2011
Houston Press, Volume 23, Number 51, "Super MARKET," review by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston, TX
Midtown Paper, 1st Quarter, "Slight Chance of Snow at 13 Celsius," Houston, TX
2007
Arts Houston, Volume 8 No.12, “Pushing the Envelope,” review by R.Eric Davis, Houston, TX
Houston Press, Volume 19, Number 30, “Jury Duty,” review by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston, TX
2006
Yorke Peninsula Country Times, “Artist Discovers Our Beauty,” Kadina, Australia
Fluent Collaborative Issue 62, …Might Be Good, Austin, TX
Salvador Castillo Word Press, “Ebony Porter -The Greatest Secrets,”www.salvadorcastillo.wordpress.com, Austin, TX
Music Entertainment Television, New Media Review - Artist in Focus, Austin, TX
2005
KUT Radio, Interview with Julie Moody – “Faces of Austin Winner,” Austin, TX
P R O F E S S I O N A L A F F I L I A T I O N S & E X P E R I E N C E
2015- present
Marketing Writer, Power Wizard + Next Era Energy, Houston, TX / Juno Beach, FL
2019 - present
Marketing Writer, Direct Energy, Houston, TX
2014-07
Marketing Coordinator, Bayou Village School, Houston, TX
2013
Chair, Garden Council, Bayou Village School, Houston, TX
2006-10
Publication Committee member for SPOT Magazine, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2008
FOTOFEST Reviewer with Madeline Yale for Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2006-08
Program Coordinator, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2006-08
Exhibition Committee member, Houston Center for Photography, Houston TX
2005-06
Classroom & Research Assistant, Dr. James Housefield, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2001-06
Registrar, Dougherty Arts School, Austin, TX
2003
Studio Assistant, Ishamel Soto, Blue, TX
HYDROPHONO internet radio show, DJ, Radio One Austin, Austin, TX
Wardrobe Assistant, Untitled Football Project, dir. Richard Linklater, Detour Film Productions, Austin, TX
2002
Art Therapy Summer Assistant, Marnie Paul Arts Center, Austin, TX
Private Art Instructor, Austin, TX
1997-98
Seamstress, Handmaiden Custom Quilting, Kingwood, TX