Vaughn Bell is an artist whose work focuses on the complexities and paradoxes of human interactions with places, natural forces and other species. Her diverse practice includes ecological artworks, public art, performance-based and participatory artworks, public art planning and writing, teaching, sculpture, drawings, videos and installations.
Recent exhibitions have included installations in Brussels, Buenos Aires, and Paris. In addition to exhibiting works at museums and institutions, she often works in the public realm on artworks rooted in local communities and ecologies. Vaughn has created commissions for Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Edith Russ Site for New Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia, the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant in King County, WA, the Hermitage of San Bartolomeo in Abruzzo, Italy, and others.
Vaughn was recently commissioned to create a Public Art Master Plan for Seattle Public Utilities Drainage and Wastewater, which was a work of community engagement, research and collaboration over a two-year period. Additionally, in the past Vaughn worked as staff artist in the Seattle Department of Transportation on integrating public art into transportation infrastructure.
Vaughn often consults and lectures on topics related to public art and environmental art. She is also a part-time faculty in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Tacoma, where she teaches and has developed curriculum on public art, ecological art and creative practices. Her work has been featured in Artnews, Afterimage, Arcade Journal, and Public Art Review as well as numerous other publications. It was also featured in The New Earthwork: Art Action Agency, from ISC Press and Art and Ecology Now by Andrew Brown from Thames and Hudson.
Vaughn received her MFA from the Studio for Inter-related Media at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA and her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She lives in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Recent exhibitions have included installations in Brussels, Buenos Aires, and Paris. In addition to exhibiting works at museums and institutions, she often works in the public realm on artworks rooted in local communities and ecologies. Vaughn has created commissions for Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Edith Russ Site for New Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia, the Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Plant in King County, WA, the Hermitage of San Bartolomeo in Abruzzo, Italy, and others.
Vaughn was recently commissioned to create a Public Art Master Plan for Seattle Public Utilities Drainage and Wastewater, which was a work of community engagement, research and collaboration over a two-year period. Additionally, in the past Vaughn worked as staff artist in the Seattle Department of Transportation on integrating public art into transportation infrastructure.
Vaughn often consults and lectures on topics related to public art and environmental art. She is also a part-time faculty in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Tacoma, where she teaches and has developed curriculum on public art, ecological art and creative practices. Her work has been featured in Artnews, Afterimage, Arcade Journal, and Public Art Review as well as numerous other publications. It was also featured in The New Earthwork: Art Action Agency, from ISC Press and Art and Ecology Now by Andrew Brown from Thames and Hudson.
Vaughn received her MFA from the Studio for Inter-related Media at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA and her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She lives in Seattle, Washington, USA.