Artmaking calms

My restless mind…an anxious world

Making vulnerability a quiet companion

Improvisational form

Weaving, whittling, binding

Foraged materials, begin a new story

Flora, fauna, archetypes

Boats and ladders, honeycomb and nest, raven and bee

Ephemeral amalgams

Alchemy, something from nothing

Reverent appreciations

The rhythms and cycles of the natural world

Stephanie Bedwell is a prolific fiber and multi-media artist with an extensive background as an Art Educator. Bedwell includes among her exhibiting credits a one-woman show at Grossmont College’s Hyde Gallery and another at Mesa College’s Art Gallery. In 2010, Chaffey College commissioned Bedwell to create a Sculpture Installation for the atrium of their new Center of the Arts building. Other solo exhibitions include Body and Spirit, San Diego State University, Life After Birth, San Diego Circle Gallery, and Archetypes, J. Dewers Gallery. Bedwell has been the art instructor for Mt. Helix Academy for the past twenty-seven years. She also teaches at Grossmont College, where she received a Teaching Excellence Award. In 2016, Bedwell served as Artist in Residence for a National Science Foundation-funded project, leading workshops that taught creative practices to innovators. Bedwell studied at Exeter College of Art and Design in England, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin, and earned her MFA from SDSU.