As a matrix-based artist creating work in series and multiples, Elysabeth Cianci sustains an interdisciplinary practice within the fields of photography, printmaking, and letterpress printing. She received a BA in creative writing from Gordon College, and a MFA in Photography and Integrated Media where she studied under photographer Christopher James. Cianci's work celebrates an interest in the hand-made and process as it relates to ritual and is often represented by the ideas of trace, layers, convergence, erasure, and transparency. She refers to her images, artist books, and works on paper as field notes: untidy records documenting our marked and unequivocally deep interconnectedness to ecological systems.

Cianci’s work is held in several private collections, as well as the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University. Dividing her time between her home in the mountains of Vermont and the Boston area, Elysabeth serves on the faculty as Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and in the Studio Arts Department at Lesley Art + Design. Additionally, she is currently on staff at the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies Woodshop at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. 


When she’s not creating or teaching, she can be found in a riverbed, reading Annie Dillard, or moth hunting.