Ellina Kevorkian is an Armenian American artist, curator, residency director, and arts administrator whose 20-year career advocating for art and artists. Kevorkian has been a guest of universities, conferences, and convenings, participating in nationwide discourse and nominating | panel reviews for significant institutions such as The National Endowment for the Arts, The Heinz Foundation, The Pew Center for Cultural Heritage, Creative Capital Foundation, United States Artists, the Harpo Foundation, The Alliance for Artist Communities, as well as College Art Association (CAA). She was named a Portland Emerging Arts Leader (PEAL,) which is affiliated with the Emerging Leaders Network, a program of Americans for the Arts and a Mayor-appointed Arts Commissioner for the City of Minneapolis. Kevorkian has been written about in The LA Times, The LA Weekly, ArtForum, ArtPulse, and Artnet. She holds an MA from Wesleyan University in curatorial practice as well as an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. She is the former Artistic Director for Residency Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE, and more recently the former Director for Residency Programs at Franconia Sculpture Park.