About Stephanie King
From the earliest age Stephanie was drawn to the ethereal world of flowers. Throughout her life she has explored many art mediums. A self taught artist, she has landed on exploring the fine lines between land botanicals and marine algae. Nature, music, traveling and creating have always been Stephanie's guides through life from childhood to adulthood. Through many twists and turns, great gains and great losses, Stephanie has never lost sight of preserving the beauty the natural world is constantly providing.
Stephanie King is an eco-artist, educator and naturalist. She creates multi-media art that reflects her interest in the natural world. Within her art, she combines a love of botany with passion for the sea. King not only uses nature as her muse, she literally uses materials found in nature, such as flowers, leaves, mosses, lichen and seaweed as her medium. It is her greatest desire to preserve nature, showcasing its beauty through art.
She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1999. Throughout her 15 year career of teaching Montessori, she incorporated her love for art and nature into her daily classroom curriculum. She has spent over two decades exploring the fine lines between land flora and marine algae through designing land & sea collages. Botanicals and seaweed are a type of lens in which she examines truth, beauty and the natural world. She has a talent for finding extraordinary beauty in the overlooked and often ignored world of plants. Stephanie stays connected to the natural world and the arts on Cape Cod through teaching workshops, participating in conservation volunteer work and maintaining memberships in various art centers, collectives and museums. In 2023, she was invited to a solo exhibit at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.
As a visual artist and teacher, she hopes to encourage more people to rethink their relationship to the earth and better understand human impacts and interconnections.
Stephanie maintains membership in the following organizations and cooperatives:
- Massachusetts Audubon
- Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
- Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, MA
- Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Hyannis, MA
- Co-Operative artist member Woods Hole Handwork's Art Gallery, Woods Hole, MA
- Falmouth Art Center, Falmouth, MA
- Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
- Woodruff's Art Center Mashpee, MA
- Woods Hole Handworks Co-Operative Art Gallery May-October
- The Pilot House Restaurant Sandwich Marina Sandwich, MA
- Bucatino Restaurant & Wine Bar Falmouth, MA
- The Quarterdeck Restaurant Falmouth, MA
- International Airbnb Praiano, Italy
- Juried show, "Cape to Cape" April-June 2023 Cultural Center at Rocky Neck Art Colony Gloucester, MA.
- Group exhibition, Woodruff's Art Center "Color & Form" June 8th - July 14, 2023 Mashpee, MA
- Solo exhibition, "Sea Pattern's" July 25 -September 9, 2023. Opening reception on 7/28/23 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA
- Juried show "Deck the Walls" Arts foundation of Cape Cod December 2023 Hyannis, MA
- Annual member show Cotuit Center for the Arts Dec. 2023 Cotuit, MA
- Group member show "Brrr" Falmouth Art Center, January 2024 Falmouth, MA
- Group member show, "Blink" Falmouth Art Center, March 2024 Falmouth, MA
- Members' Open Exhibition, PAAM, March 2024 Provincetown, MA
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