Education

Master of Fine Arts, May 2020 

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), Fall 2017 - Spring 2020

 

Bachelor of Fine Arts,  May 2012 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC),  Fall 2010 - Spring 2012  

 

Associate of Fine Arts,  May 2010 

St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley, Fall 2007 - Spring 2010

 

Employment 

Adjunct Faculty, Maryville University, Spring 2024 - current

Adjunct Faculty, St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley, Fall 2020 - current

Courses Taught : Figure Drawing, Mixed Media, Art History, Art Appreciation, 

3D Design and Ceramics

 

Ceramics Studio Manager, St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley, Fall 2024

 

Artist’s Consultant, Creative Problem Solving for Artists, Fall  2019 - current  

Assisting artists by teaching new creative processes and techniques as well as assisting in fabrication and problem solving. Hired to help emerging artists on the local scale as well as established artists who work internationally including Damon Davis, Aaron Fowler, and Kahlil Irving.

 

Adjunct Faculty - University of Missouri - St. Louis, Fall 2021

Courses Taught : Sculpture 1 & 2

Educational Assistant/Studio Technician, St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022

Manage studio facilities. Assists GFA program coordinator in assigned duties and tasks. Worked with and facilities and building renovation team on products needs, design, OSHA standards and facility needs for studio renovation

 

Instructor of Record, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Courses Taught : Intro to Ceramics and Art Appreciation

Studio Technician, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, Fall 2016 - Spring 2019

Oversaw ceramics and sculpture facilities including maintenance, OSHA standards, safety and assisting students in using and working with equipment.

 

Other Notable Experience 

 

Studio Safety and Design Consultant 

Involved in  renovations at STLCC Florissant Valley Humanities building, Advising and implementing best practices to meet OSHA standards for workshops to assure classroom safety for students, staff, and faculty.  2022 - 2023

 

Student Organization Advisor, STLCC Florissant Valley

Duties include mentoring club members on organizing, budgeting, facilitating, and executing student organization projects, events, and interstate travel to visit museums, art galleries, and to tour universities for transfer students. Student organization advisors work directly with students to help them identify their own goals and needs and find ways to work towards them. 2022 - Current

 

Educational Assistant, STLCC Florissant Valley

Duties include maintenance of studios and studio equipment,  fulfilling order form requests for supplies for studio art classes,  and writing “Fix-it” requests for maintenance of areas of the classrooms that are beyond my own duties and skill-sets. - 2020 - Current

 

Social Practice 

 

Public Sculptor - Commissioned by the parents of Michael Brown Jr. to create a collaborative, life-sized sculpture of Michael Brown Jr. to be exhibited at several locations during the anniversary of his death. - 2024

 

Community Organizer - Organized a multi-faith, multicultural, vigil to grieve innocent lives lost and raise relief funds during the beginning of the bombing of Gaza. - St. Francis Xavier Church, St. Louis University -  2024

 

Community Organizer - Congregated multiple community gardens together to deliver approximately 800 lbs of surplus produce to shelters, food pantries, and soup kitchens in the St. Louis region during first the summer of the Covid 19 pandemic. - 2020

 

Community Organizer - Created and Facilitated an online art auction by coordinating with artists on the local and national level to benefit the unhoused community of the St. Louis metropolitan area, raising over $10k in funds during the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic. - 2020

 

Volunteer Assistant Teacher -  St. Louis Artworks, Spring session 2014 

 

Community Art Practices Certification, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art Therapy Program -  Spring 2012 

 

Community Organizer - Facilitated, budgeted, and taught a community arts program at Franciscan Outreach Association, Chicago, Il - Spring 2012

 

Awards/Accomplishments

Great Rivers Biennial Awardee - Chosen as one of three artists to participate in Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’  20206 Great Rivers Biennial Exhibition - 2025 “Three Columns” sculpture acquired by National Building Arts Center, Sauget, IL - Fall 2023 “Inside/Outside” sculpture acquired by Jeske Sculpture Park, Ferguson, MO - Fall 2023 Counterpublic 2023 - National Juried Public Art Triennial - St. Louis, Missouri - Spring-Summer 2023. Awarded $15,000 for the creation of public monument, titled “Three Columns” Artist In Residence - Kranzberg Arts Foundation - St. Louis, Missouri - 2022-2023 Great Rivers Biennial Finalist - Contemporary Art Museum - St. Louis, Missouri - Fall 2021 John H. Pohlman Scholarship 2017-2020. $2000 annual award for qualifying graduate students Bill and Jean Luan STEAM Scholarship, SIUE – 2019 – First student ever granted this award for $1000 Full Tuition Scholarship - SIUE - 2017-2020   John W. Kurtich Travel Fellowship, SAIC – Winter 2012 –  $5000 awarded to study in India Ox-Bow Scholarship - full tuition waiver at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency Presidential Scholarship, School of the Art Institute Chicago - Spring 2010  

Selected Exhibitions

 

Great Rivers Biennial - exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO - Upcoming : September 2026

Considering St. Louis - Group Exhibition, The Luminary - St. Louis, MO, July 2024

Doom Scroll - Solo Exhibition, Kranzberg Arts Center - St. Louis, MO - June-July 2023

Counterpublic - Internationally Curated Public Art Triennial - St. Louis, MO - April- July 2023

Outlaws - Exhibition of Regional Ceramics Educators - Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis Community College - Meramec, St. Louis, MO - January - February 2023 

Three Part Harmony - Group Exhibition - Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO - November 2022

Songs of Fire - National Curated Group Exhibition  - Sophie’s, St. Louis, MO - Spring 2022

Sticks in the Mud - Solo Exhibition, St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley - Fall 2020

MFA Exhibition - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - September 2020

Young Sculptors Competition Finalist, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio - August 2019 Armature, Solo Exhibition, Flood Plain Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri – March – April, 2019 PASSAGE, Reese Gallery, St. Louis, MO, January 2017 GCADD EXHIBITION # 8, Granite City Art and Design District, Granite City, IL, November 2016 This has all happened before and this will all happen again., mushmaus, St. Louis MO, June 2013 BFA Exhibition, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL, March -April 2012 Layered Cities, Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India, January 2012

Isn’t It A Pity, Catnap Gallery, Los Angeles California, July-August 2012

 

Publications/Media Appearances

 

Three Columns, by Vincent Stemmler

Interviewed by Counterpublic media team about National Building Art’s Center’s acquisition of “Three Columns” -  publication pending

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK, “Counterpublic In St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope,” 

New York Times - July 2023

THE MUSE, “New Exhibit at the Kranzberg Considers Dangers of Doom Scrolling, “  

RiverFront Times - June 2023

“The Kranzberg Arts Foundations Welcomes Resident Artist Vincent Stemmler…”, 

Ladue News - June 2023

KDHX Arts Interview with Nancy Kranzberg 

Interviewed about creative process and art historical analysis - June, 2022

Show Me St. Louis with Malik Wilson 

Interviewed about “Songs of Fire”, nationally curated exhibit at Sophie’s Artist’s Lounge  - May 2022

“Salute to the Class of 2022,”

 Fox 2 News with Tim Ezzell - Represented St. Louis Community College, Florissant Valley - May 2022

Vince Stemmler, Garrity Tools Featured Artist 

Interview/ Pottery Demo for Garrity Tools Clay Club - May, 2020

 

Presentations/Lectures

Webster University Great Rivers Biennial Lecture Series, St. Louis, MO - March 2026

Doom Scroll, Artist Talk, Kranzberg Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO - June, 2023

Webster University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, St. Louis, MO - April, 2023

Guest Critic, Washington University Urban Design Final Reviews, St. Louis, MO - December 2022

Artist Talk, Armature, Flood Plain Gallery, April 2019

Sculpture X Symposium Presenter, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI -  2019