Artist CV
EDUCATION
2024 - Orca Institute, Diploma of Counselling Skills
2021 - Mentorship with Pennylane Shen of Dazed & Confucius Consulting Services
2016 - 6 week deep wilderness trip as research for Re-Wilding: fire starter
2014 - Artist Mentorship: Toni Onley Artist Project, Island Mountain Arts, Wells BC.
2008 - University of Victoria, Bachelor of Arts
2003 - Okanagan University College (now UBCO), Diploma in Fine Arts
GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS and RESIDENCIES
2021 - Columbia Basin Trust Art Production Grant
2018 - Columbia Basin Trust Art Production Grant
2016 - Columbia Basin Trust Major Project Grant
2015 - Slocan Valley Community Arts Council Production Grant
2014 - Toni Onley Artist Project (10 day mentored residency)
2012-15 - Columbia Basin Trust Art Production Grants
2007 - The President's Scholarship, The University of Victoria Faculty Scholarship, The Marlet Chapter, IODE, Prize for Scholarship in History in Art
2002 - Okanagan University College Scholarship for Returning Students, Jack Hambleton Memorial Award. (Recognition in visual arts), Kelowna and District Arts Council Bursary, Helen Pitt Fund for Fine Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 - BASScamp Art Gallery, Shambhala Music Festival, Salmo, BC (group)
2022 - Cantina del Centro, “Bursting Through the Gates of Joy”, Nelson, BC (solo), BASScamp Art Gallery, Shambhala Music Festival, Salmo, BC (group), Nelson Artwalk: 1) Kootenay Bakery (solo) 2) Touchstones Museum (group)
2021 - Cantina del Centro, “Grayscale”, Nelson BC (solo)
2020 - I Like Your Work Podcast, “Congruence”, USA (Online, Group), Kootenay Gallery of Art, “After Eden”, Castlegar, BC (solo)
2019 - Gallery 2, “Rewilding: firestarter”, Grand Forks, BC (solo)
2018 - Oxygen Art Centre, “Rewilding: firestarter”, Nelson, BC (solo, funded), Oxygen Art Market, Nelson, BC (group, invited)
2017 - VISAC, “Landscape, Migration, Wildness”, Trail, BC (solo), Oxygen Art Market, Nelson, BC (group, invited)
2016 - Blue Night Artwalk, exhibition & artist talk, Nelson, BC (solo, Invited), Pynelogs Art Gallery & Cultural Centre, Invermere, BC (group, juried), Oxygen Art Market, Nelson BC (group, invited), World Ski & Snowboard Festival, “State of the Art”, Whistler, BC (group)
2015 - Finding Our Way Back Home, Winlaw, BC (solo, funded), Blue Night Artwalk, Main Venue exhibition, Nelson, BC (group)
2014 - Touchstone's Museum of Art & History, Nelson, BC (group), Kootenay Art Gallery, Castlegar, BC (group), TOAP Exhibition, IMA Gallery, Wells, BC (group)
2013 - We Are The Weavers, White Pines Dojo, Slocan, BC (solo, funded)
MURALS & MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATIONS
2023 - Video Project collaboration with filmmaker Jason Mannings
2020 - Mural, Fairway4Farm, Winlaw, BC (commissioned)
2019 - Youth mural project with Nelson International Mural Festival (invited, funded)
2018 - Mural: Mountain Memories, Nelson International Mural Festival (funded, juried)
2015 - Mural:Treasure Within, Winlaw, BC (funded)
2014 - Mural: Coyote Falls In Love With Rain, Winlaw, BC (funded)
PUBLICATIONS
Shirley, Maggie, Curatorial writing for After Eden exhibition, Kootenay Galley of Art, Castlegar, BC.
Thompson, Deborah, 'Stilling the Mind', Essay in Re-Wilding: fire starter catalogue, Winter 2018. 4-6. Print.
Robert E. Livingood, 'Stephanie Kellett's Wild Vision', ARTiculate, Spring/Summer 2016. 10-11. Print.
Robert E. Livingood, 'Beautiful Dissonance', Devil's Club Blog, September 2015. thedevilsclub.blogspot.ca/2015/09/beautiful-dissonance.html
SELECT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
2023 - Juror: Narrows Artist Residency, Nelson, BC (invited), Juror: Nelson International Mural Festival (invited)
2020 - Juror: Sculpture Walk, Castlegar, BC (invited), Artist Talk: Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, BC
2019 - Artist Talk: Gallery 2, Grand Forks, BC
2018 - Panelist: International Mural Festival, Nelson, BC, Juror: Wayfinding: Identity in the Kootenays, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, Juror: CBT Program 1 Grant adjudication, Slocan Valley, BC, Artist Talk: Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC
2014 - Artist Talk: Tony Onley Artist Project, Wells, BC
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024-23 - Board Member of Nelson District Arts Council
2023 - WeBC Artist Business Mentorship with Patricai Henman
2022 - Created Art, Wilderness, Mystic, Substack newsletter, Mural Assistant to Ric Gendron, Nelson International Mural Festival
2020 - Facilitator, Nelson International Mural Festival, Nelson, BC
2010-20 - Exhibiting Visual Artist
2006-16 - Freelance Graphic Designer
2019 - Youth Mural Collaboration/Facilitation, Nelson, BC
2018 - Youth Exhibition Juror & exhibition manager, Oxygen Artist Run Centre, Nelson Slocan Valley Community Arts Council - Adjudicating Committee
2015 - Mural collaboration/facilitation, Winlaw, BC (funded)
2014 - Large scale group mural project facilitation, Winlaw, BC (funded)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 - Wayfinding: Identity in the Kootenays. Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson BC
