The Brothership Building Window curated by IS183 Art School of the Berkshires will feature Little Kids, Big Issues by Stephanie VanBramer for the month of November.

ARTIST BIO: Stephanie VanBramer is a born and raised native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Berkshires is the place she calls home and is currently where she lives and makes art today. Focusing on staying local and accomplishing the most she can in her own backyard, Stephanie received her BA in Art from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. She currently works as an elementary art teacher in the Pittsfield Public Schools and as a Faculty Artist with IS183 Art School of the Berkshires. She is also a current member of the Berkshire Art Association. Stephanie’s artwork can be seen on the streets as she has created three Pittsfield Paint Boxes through Pittsfield’s Artscape. Stephanie has a strong passion for arts education and continues to seek opportunities to promote and make stronger connections between art-making and education.

ARTIST STATEMENT: Being the middle child of three daughters, I am no stranger to finding myself in the middle of a lot of things. Constantly learning how to combine and balance work and play, family and friends, and multiple other aspects in her life, I also fuse together different elements in my artwork. Focusing my medium in drawing and painting, I also manage to find ways of including my love for collage and typography into a majority of my pieces.

Regularly taking inspiration from personal experiences, conversations, thoughts about everyday life, and the lessons I have learned along the way, I create artwork that sparks reality checks and speaks out, making it known that it has something to say. I create little characters with big personalities and even bigger ideas.