9-23-09

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Seattle-based environmental artist Vaughn Bell will display one of her latest projects, “Village Green,” at the Lycoming College Art Gallery in Snowden Library from Oct. 15 to Nov. 19. An opening reception will be held in the gallery on Oct. 15, from 4-5:30 p.m. Following her lecture, she will begin a performance piece that involves viewer participation. Bell’s exhibit is part of the College’s Fall Symposium on sustainability.

Bell specializes in installations and performances that involve living plants, multi-media video installations and public interventions. She has been featured in shows all around the United States, as well as the United Kingdom and Japan. Recent solo shows have included “Becoming a River” in Kamiyama, Japan, “New Pioneers” at Disjecta Art Space in Portland, Ore., and “From Sea to Shining Sea” at SOIL Gallery in Seattle.

She has received many grants and has been featured in various publications, including New Horizons in Landscape, and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Bell has taught or been a visiting artist at Massachusetts College of Art, Montserrat College of Art, Syracuse University, and Ursinus College, most recently teaching at Fairhaven College at Western Washington University. She received full fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Millay Colony for the Arts, was artist-in-research at the Berwick Research Institute in Boston in 2004, and was selected as the 2007 international artist-in-residence for KAIR in Kamiyama, Japan.

A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Bell earned a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master of fine arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art.

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