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''' = Elana Mann = '''

Life & Education
Elana Mann is a contemporary artist born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 26, 1982. She and her family are Jewish and was raised part of the Reconstructionist Judaism Movement. She attended Washington University and the St. Louis California Institute of the Arts. She received her MFA from the California Institutes of the Arts in Valencia, California. Elana Mann is also currently a Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College and Pitzer College. She is now 39 years old and is living in Los Angeles.

Work
Elana Mann's pieces are primarily sculptures with so much meaning behind them, she explores listening and the power of collective voice through sculpture, sound, performance, and community agreement. She has presented her work in museums, galleries, and public spaces in the United States. She has worked on a collection called the Getty Research Institute and has shown her artwork in parks, museums, and international galleries In November of 2016, she put up a public mural at the Baik Art in Los Angeles that was titled Talk Through the Hand. She also participated in a Side Street Project in Pasadena where she created 3 large sculptures that were inspired by listening technology that was used in World War 1 and World War 2. The true meaning and reasoning behind Elana Mann’s piece are when Emily Hopkins stated that “there’s a larger issue in Pasadena where there is this set group of people that go to meetings and they’re intimidating”. Listening to this sparked some inspiration for Elana Mann and she then created “Listening as (a) Movement”. Elana Mann did a public project at a ground park in Downtown Los Angeles called 'Ground Rounds in 2014 and created an experimental space for art and civic engagement.

Solo & Collaborative Projects

 * 2021; Year of Wonders, redux, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
 * 2020; Year of Wonders, Artpace, San Antonio, TX Sounds from the Swamp, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
 * 2018; Instruments of accountability, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
 * 2016;The Assonant Armory, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2014; Drone Duet, a collaboration with Matias Viegener, Digital Mural Project at the Culver Center of the Arts, UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, CA
 * 2012;Chann & Mhann: A Historical Retrospective, 2005-2012, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA (Chan & Mann)
 * 2008; The Exchange Rate was organized by Elana Mann because of the 2008 presidential election. There were also 38 artists from 16 different countries that also worked on this project with her.

Public Projects

 * 2019; Dark Victory, Laci Air + CicLAvia, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2017; Take a Stand Marching Band, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2010; Artist Bailout: Renegade Bounty Exchange, a collaboration with Autumn Rooney, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
 * 2009'''; Retirement Bash, with Culver City High School Students, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Awards & Grants
Elana Mann has received many awards for her outstanding work. She has received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award in 2021, The Stine and DeGuire Contemporary Art Award at the Los Angeles Clean-Tech Incubator in 2019. Elana Mann has been awarded the California Community Foundation’s 2009 Visual Arts Fellowship. Elana Mann has also received outstanding and amazing grants. In 2017, she was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Also in 2015, she was awarded Artist Community Engagement (ACE) Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and lastly, she was Awarded in 2012 the Durfee Foundation Artist's Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant.

Published Books
Elana Mann published a book called ''The People's Microphony SongBook' in 2021 which is a self-published book. Another book that she published is GIVE IT TO ME, DO IT TO ME, MAKE ME in 2007 which is also a self-published book.

Contacts & Social Media
Websisite
 * https://www.elanamann.com/

G-Mail
 * elanamann@gmail.com

Instagram
 * https://www.instagram.com/elanamamma/