Hello, 

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I am a singer-songwriter and painter/illustator. My work takes place in the whispers between dreams and waking, life and death, me and you. I am interested in echoes, symbologies, creatures, and the mythological; in wings, veins, blood, and scars; in fire, water, earth, and air; the feminine; I am interested in the cycles that compose us into symphonies; the things we feel breathing between the lights and shadows of places.

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My mother tells me I came into this world with a pen in my hand and an insatiable curiosity. My feet were always dirty, my knees scraped, my head both here and somewhere else. Some things don't change. I attended the early college program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on scholarship at the age of 16, went on to get a BFA from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and am currently getting my MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I've taught and performed and won awards, all of which you can view on my CV. 

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My art is here for you to connect with in whatever way is meaningful to you. Maybe you'll find something special to take home or give to someone you love. Or maybe you’ll find a moment that makes you think of something you haven't before. Or something you think about a lot. Maybe my art will show up in your dreams. Any way it speaks to you, I’m happy you are here. 

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There are many things I’ve let out and others I’ve kept locked in a box deep inside me for many years. There are things emerging. Sometimes I feel a thousand ancient voices within me all at once and sometimes I feel all tender-fleshed and gooey. But these things are not disparate—as the moth was once a caterpillar, there are threads tying these things together. The child is ignorant of things the adult knows; the adult forgets things the child knows innately. We remember, we forget. We remember again. Here I am and here you are, breathing in and out at different moments in time, together. 

 

From me to you, 

Stephanie LenWar