About

Renee van der Stelt is an artist & educator who has exhibited original art work at venues throughout the U.S. and abroad. Beginning in 2022, van der Stelt began expanding visual art engagements with intentional focus on well-being as a nature-informed art & talk therapist for children and adults. Her visual practice continues to broaden through this experience. Select solo exhibitions include Neck of the Woods: Marrow at Elon University, What Lies Beneath, for China Hutch Projects, Borders and Migration: Shifting Geographies at Rogers Gallery, Berea College, KY, Recordings at Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington D.C., Sphere Chart & Site Drawings at GalleryOne, 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.

Select recent group exhibitions: FRESH! F&M Faculty Biennial at the Phillips Museum of Art, Recollections Black Rock Art Center, MD, +One, Goucher College, MD; 3 Strategies for Surprise, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD; Interval at GrizzlyGrizzly, Philadelphia, PA; Out of the Blue at Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, NL; Converge at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY; Checks & Balances at HEREart, NY.

Collaborations include: co-curated Draw itOUT! with Gerald Ross, Director of Exhibitions at Maryland Institute College of Art. Drawing workshops at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, (e)Merge Art Fair, Washington D.C. with Jassie Rios & Free[Space] Collective, Consolidated Landscapes with Jassie Rios at Delicious Spectacle, Washington D.C. and Drawing the Found Line: Jassie Rios & Renee van der Stelt at WIPSpace, Artisphere, Arlington, VA. This web site documents a pop-up exhibition resulting from Lenka Clayton’s “Motherhood Residency”.