Ellsworth is Associate Professor in the School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Her research crosses disciplines of drawing, performance and installation.

Ellsworth and Katan will be teaching Topography of Memory in the summer of 2015. Workshop takes place at Castello di Spannocchia which is an organic agricultural estate just south of Siena. Please email for information.

Ellsworth has taught at the Art Institute of Florence-Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky. She has also taught performance and visual art workshops throughout the United States, Iceland, and Italy.