Ellen LeBlanc
Ellen is an active member of the Denver-based Egyptian Study Society [www.Egyptstudy.org], and of The Amarna Research Foundation. She has lectured to the ESS several times, and has written both for “The Scribes’ Palette” and for “The Ostracon”, published by the ESS.
Ellen has a degree in Ancient History with a minor in Anthropology from Louisiana State University, and continued informally to study after her graduation for many years. In the late 1980’s, she attended the prestigious New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, where she began to do colored pencil drawings, first of birds, then later pastel paintings and water colors of Egypt. As a passionate “birder”, one of her favorite things to do in Egypt is search for new and interesting birds while searching for new and interesting monuments. Sometimes the two passions conflict, as one involves looking up, and one looking down or straight ahead, and she has had a couple of interesting encounters with the soil of Ancient Egypt. She also does a massive amount of digital photography while in Egypt, and her life goal is to photograph every bird on every monument in Egypt.
She also spent a number of years in New Orleans as a teacher, and has been an exhibit interpreter at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as well as working with their bird collections.