Stephanie Rowden is a sound artist whose work encompasses projects for radio, podcast, installation and participatory public art. Recent projects include a series of audio essays and sound walks. Her audio collaborations with writers include a series of radio poems with Jennifer Metsker, an audio postcard with Keith Taylor, and a soundscore for a video dance performance with Anne Carson.
Rowden's audio pieces have been broadcast on WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio, Michigan Radio, PRI’s Studio 360, and BBC-Radio 4’s Shortcuts and featured through the Third Coast International Audio Festival. She is co-founder of the Radio Campfire community listening event series in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit; and was co-curator of the Sounds of the State series of audio shorts on Michigan Radio.
She is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's Stamps School of Art & Design. Rowden co-leads the Creative Campus Voting Project, a research initiative with colleague Hannah Smotrich. Their ongoing project is focused on creative non-partisan interventions to increase college-age voter participation.
Rowden has received grants and fellowships from the U-M Institute for the Humanities, ArtServe Michigan / the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Alliance / National Endowment for the Arts, ArtMatters, Inc., the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship program and Artists Space in New York. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation.
