ABOUT ELLIE ANGLIN

Ellie Anglin (she/they) is a multi-media visual artist and writer from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Inspired by feminist and queer art traditions, Ellie’s work blends collage, memoir, and self-publishing practices to explore identity, magic, pop culture, and the collective imagination.

Inspired by her mother’s quilts and her grandmother’s paintings and sculpture, Ellie began a self-taught artistic practice that she has sustained for more than twenty years. As a teenager, she discovered DIY publishing as a portal for storytelling, experimentation, resistance, and community building—and has since self-published 34 zines.

In 2024, Ellie served as the Artist in Residence for the City of Kitchener, for which she created Ribbon Zine, a collaborative project celebrating local art-making in its many forms, and exploring the physical, political, and spiritual dimensions of living among the Willow River Watershed.

Ellie’s forthcoming graphic memoir, Reproduction: Death, Birth & The Turkey Baster Method is a story that weaves the deaths of her parents with the conception of a child with her wife with hand-illustration and collage, and will be published by PS Guelph in February 2026.

Ellie is a proud member of the KW Zinetopia Collective, the Creek Collective, and Kitchener Public Library staff—and mother.

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CONTACT ME

Let's Work Together

I work with organizations, schools, libraries, galleries, and anyone who wants to make things by hand and share ideas.

Workshops ✂️ Zine-making, collage, and creative writing — for beginners, artists, weirdos, and everyone in between.

Talks 🥸 Presentations and lectures on zine history, DIY art movements, and why making your own stuff still matters.

Creative Support ✍️ Feedback, editing, and layout help for written and visual work. Let’s make your project feel finished but still handmade.

Where I Work 🌎 Based in the Waterloo Region. I travel to Guelph, Hamilton, Toronto, London, and nearby places. I also run online sessions and can ship workshop kits wherever you are.

Get in Touch 💌 — reach out below to make something together.

Price List:

Creative workshops ($250-600)
Visual Lectures (in person or virtual) ($100-500)
Editing ($30-$40 per hour)
Poster Design ($50-$200)
Custom Buttons ($3-$5 ea)
Original Art Commissions ($50-$500)
Music Videos ($400+ based on video length)

I work on a sliding scale and offer reduced fees to Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Queer, Trans & Disabled clients, fellow artists & grass roots organizations. Please reach out so we can find a way to work together!

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Ellie Anglin

Kitchener, Ontario

www.ellieanglin.com

Public Presentations

Basin Tapestry, illustrated banner in Downtown Kitchener, 2026
lapping currents, churning futures, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 2025
To Be Like Water, Poetry Reading at Creekfest, with Creek Collective, 2025
Pride Butterflies, illustrated banner in UpTown Waterloo for Pride Month, 2024
Gauze Brain, multimedia installation at Studio FuZion as part of Cha Cha Real Smooth: Art With Instructions, curated by Lauren Prousky, 2023
A Dreamer Lives A Double Life, collage exhibited in bus shelter, part of Destination Art program from Button Factory Arts, 2023
Go Inward, collage exhibited in the Art Walk Promenade in Waterloo Park, 2023
VBC x Ellie Anglin, three collages exhibited at King MacKay Gallery & Counterpoint Brewing, Vintage Black Canada pop up, 2023 & 2024
Quilted Histories, (co-curated memorial exhibit quilts), Button Factory Arts, 2020
Time Moves Both Ways, (collages), QR8KW, Kitchener Market, 2019
Wrestling With Flowers, (fourteen paintings of gender), Grand Trunk, Toronto, 2018
Resist Psychic Death, (large scale banner), Night Shift, Kitchener 2018
Queer Canada (four collages & biographies), Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, 2017
Our Dear Leader (multi-media installation), “Steel Rails”, Waterloo, 2017
Ze Cats, public mural in the window of The Princess Cafe, Waterloo, 2016
Eat Me Famous, A visual and performance art installation with Agile Like This, “Steel Rails”, Kitchener, 2016

Sad Graffiti, Photographic Projection of KW Graffiti, “Night\Shift”, Kitchener, 2015

Dream Visions, an Exhibition of Collages, Jane Bond, Waterloo, 2015

Tiger Brand EP, vocals, song writing, video creation, cover design, performance art, Agile Like This, Kitchener 2010
Take Our Load EP, vocals, song writing, performance art, Agile Like This 2008

Community Organizing & Arts Education

King East Little Zine Library, Little Zine Librarian, 2025
Zinetopia Yard Sale & Zine Party, 2025
Zines: Then & Now, visual lecture for Wilfrid Laurier University, 2025
Ribbon Zine: Multimedia Lecture & Page Creation Workshop, 44 Gaukel, 2025
QueerKPL, co-founder, Kitchener Public Library, 2020
Queer in KW, Performance Showcase & Panel Discussion, Kitchener Public Library, 2019
Crybaby Live Viewing Party, Kitchener Public Library, 2018
K-W Zine Library, Zine Librarian, 2016-2019
Local Zine History, Lecture, Open Sesame Gallery, 2016
Surreal Self-Portraits, Arts Camp, Button Factory Arts, 2016

Videos

Jumbotron, stop motion music video for Set Feux, 2024
Five Star Rating, (performance art video as part of the collective Artificial Intelligence 2.0), 2023
To Be Missed In The End, (stop motion music video for Barzin), 2022
My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell, stop-motion music video included in the Animation Festival of Halifax, 2021
I’ve Got Friends, (stop motion music video for The Lovegoods), 2021
Sometimes Late At Night, stop-motion music video for Agile Like This, 2019
Orchard, stop-motion music video, Eiyn Sof, Waterloo, 2017
Cut + Paste, Stop Motion Animation, “Night\Shift” festival, Kitchener, 2016
Cat Me If You Can, music video for my band Agile Like This, 2007

Zine Highlights

Ribbon Zine, 2025
Goodnight Things: A Bedtime Zine, Baby’s First Zine, 2024
QueerKPL Zine, (three collaborative zines with QueerKPL), Kitchener Public Library, 2021-2025
The Four Muses Series (four celebrity zines, proceeds to Landback Camp), 2021
The Quilts of Margaret Anglin, collection of our Mom’s quilts with stories, 2020
The Crybaby Songbook, program for Live Viewing Party of Crybaby at KPL, 2019
Feel Your Fantasy #1 & #2, co-creator of RuPaul’s Drag Race fanzine, 2017-2018
Bent, collaborative zine by queer folks of KW made at Button Factory Arts, 2016
Secrets: Surviving Jian Ghomeshi, collection of responses by survivors, 2016
The Golden Bat, KW themed chapbook containing local artists and writers, 2013
Tender Buttons, hand bound short fiction illustrated with collage, 2012
Kitty Doodles #1, #2, #3 and #4, mini cat comedy series, 2010 - 2017
Scared of My Mate, Co-publisher of Quarterly KW Arts ‘Zine, 2006 – 2008

Visual Art Publications

“Smoking by Numbers” (Collage & Writing), Text Collective, Kitchener 2022
“The Future Is Fluid” (Digital Design), Wallpaper for Flare Magazine, Toronto 2018
“Downtown Live” (Collage), Artwork for City of Kitchener event guide, Kitchener, 2017
“Om in Vic Park” (Collage), Poster for City of Kitchener event, Kitchener, 2017
“Num Nums” & “Love” (Collages) Static Zine, Toronto, 2015 + 2016
“Neeed” (Collage) Steel Bananas, Toronto, 2012
“Toothvalanche” (Collage) The Hart House Review, Toronto, 2012
“Flower Spectrum” (Collage) Cover, Blueprint Magazine, Waterloo, 2011
“LaToya Jackson” (Illustration) Broken Pencil 49, Toronto, 2011
“i okay, you okay” (Collage) Blueprint Magazine, Waterloo, 2010

Literary Publications

“Snowdrops” (Poem), Feature for National Poetry Month, Create Waterloo, 2024
“Time Moves Both Ways” (Creative Nonfiction) Textile Magazine, Kitchener 2019
“Our Ink, Our Stories”, Kitchener Public Library, 2017
“Stray” (Fiction) Little Brother, Toronto, August 2012
“Precious Moments” (Fiction) Steel Bananas, Toronto, July 2012
“On Construction” (Short Story) Blueprint Magazine, March, Waterloo 2012
“HOWL WOLF” (Paired Poems) Papirmasse, February, Montreal 2012
“Two Women” (Micro Fiction) Marco Polo, Toronto, 2012
“A Fag Is Born” (Article) Broken Pencil Magazine, Toronto, July 2011

Education

20 Years of Independent Art Practice, 2004 - Present

Bachelor of Arts, Honours English Literature, University of Waterloo, 2005-2010

Publishing Internship, Broken Pencil Magazine, 2011

Honours, Accomplishments and Press

Member of The Zinetopia Collective, 2025
Member of Creek Collective, 2025
Artist in Residence for the City of Kitchener, 2024
Recipient of Canada Council for the Arts grant to make Fragments video series, 2024
Recipient of Canada Council for the Arts grant for completion of Reproduction, 2024
Individual Artists and Collectives Grants Committee, WRCF, 2024
Subject of episode of Screaming Into The Mic podcast, 2024
Maintained studio space at Studio FuZion, Kitchener, 2023 - present
Recipient of Waterloo Region Arts Fund grant for creation of Reproduction, 2023
Recipient of a Pat The Dog microgrant for creation of Reproduction text, 2023
Completed the Text Collective residency, Button Factory Arts, 2022
The Four Muses, shortlisted for Best Fanzine, Broken Pencil Zine Awards, 2022
Materialism manuscript selected for appraisal by Kitchener Public Library’s Writer In Residence Kamal Al-Solaylee, 2021
Member of the CAFKA Board of Directors, 2020
Article, My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell, National Sawdust, 2020
Article, Quilts of Comfort, The Record and The Toronto Star, 2019
Winner of Best Local Writer, in Best of WR 2017 issue of The Community Edition
Nominated for Best Visual Artist, Best Craftsperson, Best Blog (The Waterloser), Best Social Media Account (The Waterloser) and Best Party (YAAASSSS KWEEN) in #bestofWR2016 issue of The Community Edition
Nominated for Arts Award Waterloo Region for Best Visual Artist, 2016
Review of Secrets in Broken Pencil Magazine, 2016
Interview, KW’s Zine Scene, The Community Edition, 2016 <communityedition.ca/7867/>
Subject of the first instalment of the “Artin’ Around” article series in The Community Edition, 2015 <communityedition.ca/artin-around-with-ellie-anglin/>
Review of The Golden Bat, Weird Canada, 2014 <weirdcanada.com/tag/ellie-anglin/>
Recipient of the Toronto Arts Council grant for Emerging Artists, 2011