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EDUCATION
2021 Art Coaching with Pennylane Shen from Dazed & Confuscious
2016 6 week deep wilderness trip as research for Re-Wilding: firestarter
2014 Toni Onley Artist Project (10 day mentorship program)
2008 BA: University of Victoria : History in Art
2003 Diploma: Okanagan University College (now UBCO): Fine Arts
SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
2021 Columbia Basin Trust Art Production Grant
2018 Columbia Basin Trust Production Grant
2016 Columbia Basin Trust Major Project Grant
2015 Slocan Valley Community Arts Council Production Grant
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. Attained for Deans' List standing
Jack Hambleton Memorial Award. Received for recognition in visual arts
Kelowna and District Arts Council Bursary
Helen Pitt Fund for Fine Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Nelson Artwalk: 1) Kootenay Bakery 2) Touchstones Museum (solo)
2021 Cantina del Centro, “Grayscale”, Nelson BC (solo)
2020 I Like Your Work Podcast, Congruence, USA (online, group)
After Eden, Kootenay Gallery of Art, Castlegar, BC (solo)
2019 Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinxt Way, Gallery 2, Grand Forks, BC (group)
Rewilding: Fire Starter, Gallery 2, Grand Forks, BC (solo)
2018 Rewilding: Fire Starter, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC (solo, funded)
2017 Landscape, Migration, Wildness, VISAC Gallery, Trail, BC (solo)
Oxygen Art Market, Nelson, BC (invited)
Blue Night Artwalk, Nelson, BC (solo)
2016 Blue Night Artwalk, exhibit & artist talk, Nelson, BC (solo)
Pynelogs Gallery & Cultural Centre, Invermere, BC (group)
Basscamp Art Gallery, Shambhala Music Festival, Salmo, BC (group, invited)
Oxygen Art Market, Nelson, BC (invited)
State of the Art, World Ski & Snowboard Festival, Whistler, BC (juried)
2015 Finding Our Way Back Home, Pop-up gallery, Winlaw, BC (solo, funded)
Blue Night Artwalk, Main Venue, Nelson, BC (solo)
2014 Touchstone's Museum of Art & History, Nelson, BC (group)
Kootenay Art Gallery, Castlegar, BC (group)
TOAP Exhibition, Island Mountain Arts Gallery, Wells, BC (group)
2013 We Are The Weavers, White Pines Dojo, Slocan, BC (solo, funded)
Columbia Basin Trust Art & Garden Tour, Winlaw, BC (group)
2010 ArtsWells: Festival of All Things Art (Mural), Wells, BC
Re-Imagine: Street Art Festival (Mural), Penticton, BC (juried)
2009 Re-imagine: Street Art Festival (Mura), Penticton, BC (juried, People's Choice award)
MURALS & MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATIONS
2020 Mural, Fairway4Farm, Winlaw, BC (commissioned)
After Eden a/v collaboration with Robert E. Livingood
2019 Youth mural project (Nelson International Mural Festival), Nelson, BC (invited, funded)
2018 Mural: Mountain Memories, Nelson International Mural Festival, Nelson, BC (funded, juried)
Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinxt Way (p.54), Illustrated book with Marilyn James & Taress Alexis
Fire Starter a/v collaboration w/ producer Robert E. Livingood (funded)
2015 Mural: Treasure Within, Rambling Rose's Boutique, Winlaw, BC
Mural, Gaia Tree Health Food Store, Winlaw, BC
2014 Mural: Coyote Falls In Love With Rain, Winlaw Mini-Mart, Winlaw, BC
2012 A Crack to Let the Light In, illustrated book with Robert E. Livingood
Mural, Little Slocan Lodge, Little Slocan, BC
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Shirley, Maggie, Curatorial writing for After Eden exhibition, Kootenay Galley of Art, Castlegar, BC.
2017 Thompson, Deborah, 'Stilling the Mind', Essay in Re-Wilding: fire starter catalogue, Winter 2018. 4-6. Print.
2016 Robert E. Livingood, 'Stephanie Kellett's Wild Vision', ARTiculate, Spring/Summer 2016. 10-11. Print.
2015 Robert E. Livingood, 'Beautiful Dissonance', Devil's Club Blog, September 2015.
thedevilsclub.blogspot.ca/2015/09/beautiful-dissonance.html
2015 Ramdath, Kirk, "Visual Art by Stephanie Kellett", Wax Poetry and Art, 27 Sept. 2015,
waxpoetryart.com/contents/2015/stephanie_kellett.html
SELECT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
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: Nelson International Mural Festival, Nelson, BC
Juror: Youth Art Exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson BC (invited)
Juror: CBT Program 1 Grant adjudication, Slocan Valley, BC (invited)
2017 Artist Talk, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC
2014 Artist Talk, Tony Onley Artist Project, Wells, BC
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2022 Created Art, Wilderness, Mystic, Substack writing platform
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 (invited,funded)
2018 Juried Youth Exhibition Selection Committee
& exhibition manager, Oxygen Artist Run Centre, Nelson, BC (invited)
Slocan Valley Community Arts Council Adjudicating, Slocan Valley, BC (invited)
2015 Mural collaboration and facilitation, Winlaw, BC (funded)
2014 Large scale group mural project facilitation, Winlaw, BC (funded)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018 Juried Youth Art Exhibition, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC