Rowan Renee

Teaches at Pioneer Works

Rowan Renee is an artist and educator working in sculpture, printmaking and photography. In 2009 she crashed the Venice Biennale on a handmade junk boat with 30 people. In 2011 she was commissioned to paint two murals with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and received a grant to build 12 floating sculptures in Philadelphia with the Miss Rockaway Armada. She has been awarded residencies at The Bronx Museum for the Arts (2013), The Camera Club of New York (2012) and McColl Center for Visual Art (2012) to produce kinetic sculptures coinciding with the Democratic National Convention. Her work has been featured on NPR and in The New York Times. Two years ago she took a workshop to learn Wet-Plate Collodion. Within 3 months she had turned her VW into a portable darkroom and was driving across the country taking tintypes of people living-off-the-grid She teaches in a similar style, bringing bravery down to earth and making it approachable.