ELAINE BEAN

Elaine Bean was born in Baltimore, Maryland but raised around the USA in such diverse places as San Diego, New Orleans, Colorado, and Mississippi. She received a BA in English and Art from the University of Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore.

Bean became a still photographer for shock moviemaker John Waters in the early 1970s, when she also began her career in Marketing and Communications. For five years, Bean owned and curated the Phototroph Gallery in the Depot Arts District in Colorado Springs, devoted to fine art photography. She was instrumental in the DADA Arts District project and served as a juror for the Art on the Streets program. Her personal artwork is in the permanent collections of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the City of Denver, and various private collections, and her photography has won Best in Show in exhibitions around the country.

Bean was previously Advertising Manager for The Hecht Co. in Baltimore/Washington; creative designer for three department stores in New Orleans; and staff artist and writer at The Sun-Herald on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and The Daily Times/Worcester County Times on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She is currently Marketing and Publicity Director for the nonprofit Art League of Ocean City, Maryland.