Renee van der Stelt received an M.A. in art history and M.F.A. in drawing and printmaking in 1990 and 1993 from the University of Iowa. She has worked as museum educator, registrar, curator, and instructor of drawing at various institutions including the Walker Art Center, El Museo del Barrio, and the University of Maryland. Grants include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Baltimore Office for the Promotion of the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, and the TKF Foundation. Since 2014, she has worked as faculty mentor for the Low Residency M.F.A. in Studio Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is currently Visiting Assistant Faculty of Studio Art at Washington College, in Chestertown, MD. Her drawings and installations have been exhibited at venues throughout the U.S. and abroad. Selected solo exhibitions include “Borders and Migration: Shifting Geographies” at Rogers Gallery, Berea College, KY; “Recordings” at Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington D.C.; “Sphere Chart & Site Drawings” at GalleryOne in Ellensburg, WA; “Veiled Geography: Impermanent Drawings” at the University of Vermont; “Projections: Line on Land” at the Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA; and “Global/Local” at the Roswell Museum of Art, NM.
Renee van der Stelt
Studios
Cheney
Renee van der Stelt worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…