Baker Artist Portfolios

Ben Tellie is an abstract artist, art and design educator, consultant, and scholar whose artwork investigates inner emotional states and socially traumatic histories and topics. Ben holds expertise in both printmaking, painting, and mixed media practices and has explored his grandfather’s challenging experiences fighting in World War II, the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, the COVID-19 pandemic, and systemic racism, among others. He often uses heavy paintbrush strokes and palette knife techniques to develop unique layers of color, layering together pencil mark-making, his drawings, and digital art to convey the emotional significance of historical and personal memory.

Ben holds a Psychoanalytic Studies Certificate from the Psychoanalytic Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center of Psychoanalysis. He also holds an M.A. in Art and Art Education from Columbia University and a B.A. in Studio Art and Minor in Art History from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art.

Ben teaches various high school-level visual arts courses at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School and is a doctoral candidate in the Ed.D. Curriculum and Instruction program at The George Washington University. His writing appears in January House Literary Journal, Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Art Education, School Arts Magazine, and the Maryland Art Education Association Gazette.

Ben has exhibited his mixed media work widely thought the eastern region of the US including the NAEA Studio & Gallery (VA), BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport (MD), Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (MD), Baltimore County Arts Guild Gallery (MD), VisArts Center (MD), D Center (MD), Macy Gallery, Columbia University (NY), Benrimon Contemporary (NY), The Space, Avenue North Shopping Center (PA), Temple University (PA), Misericordia University (PA), Keystone College (PA), Kirby Center for the Performing Arts (PA), the January House Literary Journal and others.