The Ellies
Clara Varas
2025 Creator Award Winner
2020 Creator Award Winner
Clara Varas
For a re-imagination of the still-life through the lens of mom-and-pop shops and bodegas in Miami’s diasporic, working-class neighborhoods.
For an exhibition of works incorporating discarded furniture and refuse found along NW North River Drive and the surrounding area, informed by traditional landscape and still life painting and commenting on displacement and the fragile infrastructure of working class neighborhoods.
Ellies Award
2025 Creator Award
$10,900
2020 Creator Award
$5,000
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