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Alexis Ellers Teaching Artist

Photographer Alexis Ellers grew up in Central Ohio. At age 18 she moved to Chicago to attend Columbia College Chicago from which she graduated in December 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography.  While living in Chicago Alexis Ellers became enthralled with the city’s bike culture. She forged a bond between photography and bike culture and it transformed her art. She combines her photographs from bike culture with different sewing techniques and reclaimed materials such as old bicycle parts and previously used papers. She continues to photographically document the Rat Patrol Bike Club, a project she began in 2006.