Ellen Shattuck Pierce won the Printmaking Today Prize in 2024 for her Linocut ‘Urban Toile’. Ellen Shattuck Pierce is an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts. She loves printmaking and its historical role in disseminating knowledge, its use as a decorative art, and its use as a medium for protest. She embraces all three of these aspects by using relief cuts to create allegorical scenes of American life in her printwork.