Stephanie Lewis was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mother could tell you that she’s been making art since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Drawing was her medium of choice in childhood, and she reached a great deal of expertise by adolescence. She attended Southeast Missouri State University, where she received degrees in Art (BA) and Psychology (BS). After graduating undergraduate school, she wasn’t sure if she wanted to teach college level art or be an art therapist. After her first day teaching in an assistantship in graduate school, she was sure she wanted to be a college art professor and still create art. She received her MFA in painting from the University of Arkansas in 1998. She is a visual artist working in the media of painting, printmaking, and drawing, primarily.
In the summer of 1999, she became an adjunct instructor of art at Northwest Arkansas Community College. She spent a year as a graphic designer. She was also the Director of Visual Arts for the Arts Center of the Ozarks from 2001 – 2005. She has shown her artwork in professional exhibitions in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Illinois, as well as placed in national juried exhibitions. In 2005, she was hired full time at NWACC. She was also the founding faculty adviser to the Art Club at NWACC and was in that role from 2007 to 2014. She has taught art for the past 28 years in various capacities, and has taught at NWACC for 25 years. She has taught drawing, figure drawing, painting, art appreciation, art history survey courses, history of photography and graphic design, and creative thinking and practice at NWACC, and a seminar in art criticism at the University of Arkansas.
In 2014, she became the department head of the NWACC Art Department. She became full professor in 2015. In the Fall of 2017, she became the Chair of Visual Arts and Media which encompasses Fine Art, Graphic Design, and Journalism departments. For her first foray into the field of film, she recently completed a documentary on her aunt titled "Joanne Martin: A Life in Miniature," which has been screened in a variety of locations in Northwest Arkansas and St. Louis. Current artistic projects are a longstanding project which involves a series of drawings called “Unsung Heroes.” She is also in the research phase of a new documentary. She started an independent film production company called Mojo 2 Spare Productions LLC in 2017. Mojo 2 Spare's Facebook page can be found at this link.
Stephanie lives in Bella Vista, Arkansas with her cats. She also has a stepson named Austin. She likes hiking and and is interested in art history, art, animals, science, the intersection of art and psychology, non-fiction books, and is learning the drums.
In the summer of 1999, she became an adjunct instructor of art at Northwest Arkansas Community College. She spent a year as a graphic designer. She was also the Director of Visual Arts for the Arts Center of the Ozarks from 2001 – 2005. She has shown her artwork in professional exhibitions in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Illinois, as well as placed in national juried exhibitions. In 2005, she was hired full time at NWACC. She was also the founding faculty adviser to the Art Club at NWACC and was in that role from 2007 to 2014. She has taught art for the past 28 years in various capacities, and has taught at NWACC for 25 years. She has taught drawing, figure drawing, painting, art appreciation, art history survey courses, history of photography and graphic design, and creative thinking and practice at NWACC, and a seminar in art criticism at the University of Arkansas.
In 2014, she became the department head of the NWACC Art Department. She became full professor in 2015. In the Fall of 2017, she became the Chair of Visual Arts and Media which encompasses Fine Art, Graphic Design, and Journalism departments. For her first foray into the field of film, she recently completed a documentary on her aunt titled "Joanne Martin: A Life in Miniature," which has been screened in a variety of locations in Northwest Arkansas and St. Louis. Current artistic projects are a longstanding project which involves a series of drawings called “Unsung Heroes.” She is also in the research phase of a new documentary. She started an independent film production company called Mojo 2 Spare Productions LLC in 2017. Mojo 2 Spare's Facebook page can be found at this link.
Stephanie lives in Bella Vista, Arkansas with her cats. She also has a stepson named Austin. She likes hiking and and is interested in art history, art, animals, science, the intersection of art and psychology, non-fiction books, and is learning the drums.