Biography

Stephanie Kossmann was born in New Jersey and raised in a coastal town on the south shore of Massachusetts.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in Geography and Studio Arts with high honors at Boston University and a graduate certificate in Positive Organization Development at Champlain College. After her undergraduate degree, she worked for a mapping company before taking a position with the United States Federal government based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  She transferred to Vermont in 2003 and to Nova Scotia in 2022.  

Stephanie’s artwork balances her need for creative expression and critical thinking. She has focused her art-making on oil painting and monotype printmaking; combining the tools and methods of both to create many-layered, powerful, atmospheric images and to express complex emotional themes. She creates abstract portraiture based on appreciative inquiry rather than the subjects’ physicality.  Her landscapes capture physical sensations and emotional connections with the environment. 

in 2023, Stephanie is focused on a sponsor-funded exploration of the universal themes discovered in her previous project, Living Space: Portraits through Appreciative Inquiry. Living Space was featured in the Times Argus for a 2022 solo show at the Nuquist Gallery in Montpelier, Vermont.  Stephanie was featured in the Vermont Art Guide as a 2018 Artist to Watch, and in in Seven Days for the 2017 Sexual Violence Awareness Art Show. She also provided the cover artwork for the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival’s tenth anniversary program and presented at the 2019 fundraising luncheon for Mercy Connections.  ​
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Portrait of the Artist in Blue © 2017 Stephanie Gwen Kossmann

Mission and Values

Holding safe and liberated space.  Fostering radical self-acceptance and agency through art.

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Education
Champlain College, Graduate Certificate, Positive Organizational Development
Mercy Connections Women’s Small Business Program
​Boston University, Bachelor’s Degree, Geography, magna cum laude
​Hartwick College, Studio Art, Dean’s List

Grants and Awards
2022-2023 Fiscal sponsor: funding administered through Burlington City Arts
2018 Bryan Memorial Gallery scholarship: Eric Tobin Pleine Air Workshop
2015 Vermont Arts Council

Residency
Aug 3-23, 2020, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
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Media
April 2022 Visual Art Review: Stephanie Kossmann: Healing portraits from the inside, Times Argus
May 2018 Artist to Watch, Vermont Art Guide, #7
Apr – Aug 2018 Program Cover Art, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival
Apr 2018 Sexual Violence Survivors Exhibit Artwork of Healing, Seven Days
Fall 2017 Frailty, The Remembered Arts Journal
Jan 2017 Taking Steps to End Domestic Violence with Art ,WCAX TV
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Solo Exhibits
Mar 22 - May 12, 2022, Living Space: Portraits through Appreciative Inquiry, The T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center, Nuquist Gallery, Montpelier, VT

Aug 31 - Oct 6, 2019 The 3:30 Project, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester VT

Group Exhibits
  • Aug 11-Sept, 2023, Chromatic Expressions, Artsplace Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
  • Nov 12- Dec 20, 2020, Giants, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Nov 5 - Dec 18, 2019, Press & Release, MGNE, Chester Gallery of Art at New England College, Henniker NH
  • Jan - Mar 1, 2019 Annual Winter Juried Show, T. W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT
  • Nov 1-30, 2018, The Print Effect: Small Works/Big Impact, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York NY
  • Nov-Dec 2018 Holiday Show, T. W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT
  • Nov-Dec 2018 Gems, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Oct 13-Nov 18, 2018 Inside Out, Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester VT
  • Sep–Nov 2018 Land and Light and Water and Air, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Jun 28-Sep 3, 2018 The Sky’s the Limit, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • May 6-Sep 2, 2018 MGNE Fifth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Show, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
  • Apr 16-18, 2018 Sexual Violence Awareness Month, The Hive, Burlington, VT
  • Apr-Aug 2018 Maltex Building, Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT
  • Mar 6-Apr 27, 2018 Vermont Art Guide, Artist to Watch Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier, VT
  • Feb–Aug 2018 Courthouse Gallery Invitational Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Nov-Dec 2017 Fantastical Landscapes, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Nov-Dec 2017 Gems, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Nov 2017 Craft Vermont, Vermont Hand Crafters, Burlington VT
  • Oct–Nov 2017 Off the Wall, Frog Hollow, Burlington VT
  • Sep–Nov 2017 Land and Light and Water and Air, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT
  • Sep 2017 Vermont Hand Crafters, Eastern States Exposition, Springfield MA
  • Aug 2017 Visual arts at the festival, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival
  • Jun-Jul 2017 Defining Ourselves through Nature, 4th Corner Foundation, Windham VT
  • Jun 2017 The Color of Light, Edgewater Gallery, Middlebury VT
  • Jun 2017 Festival of Fine Arts, SEABA, Burlington VT
  • May-Jun 2017 Cyto Expressions, Biotek, Winooski VT
  • May 2017 Art Wall, Northwestern Medical Center, St. Albans, VT
  • May 2017 Salon de Refusés, Kimball Jenkins Estate, Concord NH
  • Jan 2017 A World Free of Violence Art’s Alive, Burlington VT
  • Sep 2016-Feb 2017 Local Inspiration, US Attorney’s Office, Burlington VT
  • Nov 2016 Craft Vermont, Vermont Hand Crafters, Burlington VT
​© 2017-2023 Stephanie Gwen Kossmann
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