Ella Mahoney is a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah); an artist, illustrator, and teacher. She received her BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has since illustrated children's books for the Wampanoag Language Reclamation Program, exhibited work in many galleries, and created installations in collaboration with performers.
Primarily working in oil, acrylic, and most recently silk painting; her work is based on storytelling and draws inspiration from creation stories and narratives of her personal experience of indigeneity through lenses of love and relationship to land. Her recent projects explore large-scale silk painting and installation as a medium that invites people to play and participate in creating soft spaces that encourage connection to each other and our environments.