About

Born and raised in Greensboro, NC, Elissa Paula resides in Boone, NC, working towards her BFA in Studio Art at Appalachian State University. Elissa primarily works within the medium of painting, but her passions lie in learning new methods of making and expanding herself to an interdisciplinary artist. Within the last year, Elissa has worked between the figure and abstraction to create work about the feminine experience. Her work was published in The Peel Literary and Arts Review multiple times and she had a collaborative show with Hannah Little in 2022.