Ellen Degeneres Los Angeles Art Show

Event – Ellen Degeneres Art Show 

When – 28 January 2012 @ 6pm

Where – Terrell Moore Gallery, Los Angeles

This will be the 2nd Annual Ellen Art Show which will triple up as a 3-in-1 event including: 

Birthday party for Ellen Degeneres (She turns 54 two days before the event) 

National Group Art Show (54+ Portraits of Ellen Degeneres will be on display, painted by artists from Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, South Carolina, and Ohio)

Charity Fund Raiser Event (All 54+ Portraits will be sold on the night of the event, with a portion of proceeds being donated to The Trevor Project.

About Ellen - Born January 26, 1958, Ellen is an American stand-up comedienne, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime Emmys. As a film actress, she starred in Mr. Wrong, appeared in EDtv and The Love Letter, and provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo, for which she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first and only time a voice performance won a Saturn Award. She was a judge on American Idol for one year, having joined the show in its ninth season. She also starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, DeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Shortly afterwards, her character Ellen Morgan also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues including the coming out process. She has won thirteen Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts.

In November 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named her a Special Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness.