Ella Bryant

Bio

Ella Zona Bryant is a mixed media artist and designer based in North Carolina. After beginning her career with 4 Gold Keys, 2 Silver Keys, the AP Scholar Award in the prestigious Scholastic Art Awards, Ella was admitted to New York University’s Studio Art program, where she studied closely under prolific artists such as Noel Anderson, Marlene McCarty, Shadi Harouni and Alex McQuilkin and minored in the Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology. After completing an internship with the Dallas’ beloved Lumos Creative Agency, Ella discovered her passion for digital media and design and began working as a freelance Graphic Designer and Social Media Manager. She helped clients grow their digital brands through writing, design, and administrative support while working at Boho Branding Co, where she was promoted to Lead VA within her first 2 months at the company. While studying at NYU, Ella founded Zona Creative Solutions, a brand design and marketing studio that has worked with clients featured in Forbes, Medium, Great Day Washington, Holistic Trauma Healing and Oprah. Ella graduated from NYU in 2022 with honors and as a Founders Award Recipient before turning her attention to growing Zona Creative Solutions. Today, Ella works as an Artist and Brand Designer in North Carolina. Her love of portraiture and capturing mysticism and femininity through her drawings and paintings translates into her love of working with female business owners in the world of healing and spirituality. Her work explores themes of womanhood, motherhood, Chrisitian mysticism, folk spirituality and sexuality. She has been featured in CanvasRebel and Art + Type Magazine, organized the Alchemy + Ornament show alongside Rachel Whitelaw at NYU’s Rosenberg Gallery, was featured in the Little Mama Gray’s Brush Community Art Exhibition in Jacksonville, North Carolina, received honors in Meta Gallery’s Visions of Self exhibition, and has shown work with Pancakes and Booze exhibition in Washington DC, Ella lives and works in coastal North Carolina with her husband RJ and their dog Emile.