image credit: Joanie Schwarz
Work
Creating, Collaborating, Teaching
Bio
I am a community engaged artist working to foster creativity and connectedness between people of many ages and abilities. Goals of increasing health on many scales from the personal, to community, to environmental levels, and patterns in nature inspire my work in a range of modes: sculpture, collaborations, and communication. I teach at Champlain College, and work to connect volunteers, patients, families and caregivers with the arts in the hospital coordinating Art from the Heart a program of Burlington City Arts and UVM Medical Center and Children’s Hospital.
Education
MFA Goddard College. Interdisciplinary Arts: Community Engagement, Teaching, Ecological Arts.
BFA Rhode Island School of Design. Sculpture.
Resume
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Selected Press
Intervention and Mother Earth’s Future
Artist Profile
’Of Land & Local’ Exhibit Contemplates Place
Say Hello
take out the spaces to email me at: RebeccaSchwarz8 @ gmail.com
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Artist’s Statement
All ideas, histories, and particles are interconnected and alive.
How do we treat materials, how do we treat each other?
What is lost, and what can be found?
I seek by creating art. Art to build knowledge, beauty, and appreciation of the spirited complexities of our world. Art to nurture biophilia, wellness, and repair.
Focusing on ecological issues including energy, resources, and health.
Exploring and playing with our habits of consumption and creativity.
Collaborating with materials, processes, and cycles from technologic to organic growth and decay, to relating and creating with groups and individuals.
Grappling with grief, understanding, and inviting the re-envisioning of our patterned worlds – grotesque, sublime and beautiful.