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Updated 2/23/2023

Rebecca Schwarz

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    VT

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Hello!  I connect people of all ages and abilities to creativity and imaginative projects. With inspiration from nature and collective ideas I facilitate individual and group projects on environmental issues, community, and health.

Recently I have been working on artivism – combining art and activism to help people access agency, and energize collective action for climate. Other work includes sculpture and installations, mosaics, and reworking post-consumer plastics and discarded packaging to develop media literacy and creativity. Some of my work combines lighting and solar cells to create glowing artworks. I run Art from the Heart, an arts in healthcare program, connecting patients, families and hospital employees with creativity, art, and devoted volunteer time.

 

Artist's Satement:

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.

 

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Action:



Community engaged projects



Integrated Designs and Installations



Teaching in complex environments and with all ages - semester long courses, one on one, in community or school group workshops, artist residencies. Sharing inspiration from patterns in nature, connecting culture and contexts, supporting creativity.

Find Me

Rebecca Schwarz
Job Title: Artist
Phone: 802-578-2831
Address:
Burlington, VT 05401

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Multi-Disciplinary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Visual/Crafts - Wood / Bark

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts for Social Change / Creative Activism
  • Arts and Health
  • Creation of a Work of Art (Including Commissions)
  • Design Services
  • Manufacturing / Fabrication
  • Public Art Projects (In Free, Public Spaces)
  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Curriculum Development
  • Residency - In School
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
  • Residency - Community
  • Exhibitions

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • Businesses
  • Elders
  • Families
  • General Public
  • People with Disabilities
  • School Groups
  • Teens
  • Veteran/Active Duty Military Personnel
  • Youth-At-Risk
  • Native American Tribes
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Nonprofits
  • Immigrant Populations
  • Incarcerated (or Formerly Incarcerated) individuals
  • Houseless/Housing Insecure Individuals

Geographic Reach:

  • Town / City
  • County
  • Multi-County Region
  • State
  • Multi-State Region
  • National
  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Charlotte Public Library

Library

Date: 05/2022-09/2022

Worked on a community mural that explores 40%reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

Burlington City and Lake Semester

School (K-12 Arts Program / Department)

Date: 01/2022-05/2022

Artist in Residence at the Burlington City and Lake Semester program for Burlington High School students.

University of Vermont Medical Center and Children's Hospital

Health Care Facility

Date: 04/2011

Coordinating Art from the Heart, a volunteer program connecting people with devoted volunteer time and creative supplies.

Brewster-Pierce Memorial School

Worked with the students of the school to design and make a set of honeycomb mosaic stepping stones for their teaching garden.

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Education

Education:

  • BFA Rhode Island School of Design Sculpture
  • MFA Goddard College Interdisciplinary Arts

Education

Education:

  • BFA Rhode Island School of Design Sculpture
  • MFA Goddard College Interdisciplinary Arts

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Visual/Crafts
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Communications

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Corporate Business
  • Healthcare Facility
  • Private Studio
  • School / University

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Arts Integration - Science / Technology / Engineering
  • Visual/Crafts
  • Arts Integration - History and Social Science
  • Arts Integration - Communications

State Arts Agency Roster Artist

  • Vermont Teaching Artist Roster