The Haus of Bellefleur | BIO
Stephanie Bellefleur is a contemporary visual artist of color who was born in Venezuela, Latin America,
She has gained valuable experience working as an arts administrator and production coordinator within the culture and heritage sectors, charitable organizations, municipalities, and business associations. Stephanie has acquired a thorough knowledge of the principles pertaining to specific areas of public art and placemaking. In addition to Stephanie’s relevant work experience she is also a certified Reiki practitioner, swingstage and aerial heights operator, entrepreneur, mother, and basically a straight up hustler, one who values self-improvement and embraces authenticity.
Stephanie’s artistic practice incorporates bold colors with strong graphic lines. She believes that great attention is lent to capturing the organic process of one’s life experiences turning them into healing manifestations. Stephanie's key mandate for The Haus of Bellefleur is to provide accessibility to her work through a conscious commitment of celebrating diversity through design and ongoing mentorship. Her work in public art and placemaking prioritizes equity and sustainability and provides capacity building components for both youth and community members at large. The identity of her work is connected to a purpose that both unifies and celebrates her educational and life experience. She combines her knowledge within fine art traditions, city building, civic-engagement, and street art culture. Stephanie has created a contemporary style that embodies both scale, elegance, and grit.
In 2018 Stephanie took a year off from her personal art practice to further develop her art administrative background with the award winning public arts organization, The Steps Initiative. During this time she gained valuable experience as a production manager. In her role she provided support as an admin assistant as well supervising offsite activities such as managing individual artists and facilitating community programs. Through her work at STEPS Stephanie developed a deeper understanding and appreciation for the arts sector as a whole.
Stephanie holds qualifications in design, gemmology, fine arts and aerial heights platforms. She has been hired to create work for municipalities for both the City of Toronto and Markham as well as the Vancouver Business Association and the Hamilton Business Association. She has also been awarded commissions with companies such as Facebook, Sketchers, New Balance, Regina BIA Daniel Spectrum, and The University of Toronto Business School. In 2018 she was part of The Baycrest Foundations Brain Project for Alzheimer, to which one million dollars was raised.
Stephanie's most relevant high impact public art projects include contributing to the landmark mural by International artist Phlegm at Yonge and St.Clair, the Sister Cities Exchange project alongside Chicago artist Justice Roe on the Roncesvalles Bridge and the Pan Am Path Project under the support of late Councillor Pam McConnell at Cherry and Lakeshore. Most recently, Stephanie worked on the Equilibrium Mural alongside International muralist Okuda San Miguel. Stephanie was both the production manager and assistant painter for this project. One of Stephanie's 2020 relevant works included her support on a project Titled “Achilepago” for Contemporary Artist Michael Lin at Toronto’s Contemporary Museum of Art, MOCA.
During the pandemic Stephanie has continued in her role as an arts mentor with project humanity supporting youth living in shelters. Stephanie has also spent 2021 focused on the development of public art in remote areas in the Southern parts of Saskatchewan completing three Large Scale Murals to which include, Town of Coronach, Assiniboia, Frontier and the Queens City of Regina since her return to her hometown in 2019. Stephanie's personal pledge to positively stanchion diversity, inclusion, and equity in order to create space for sustainability in the art sector is what led her to the field of choice. With that Stephanie was invited to paint in London, England with Global Street Art and completed an Artist Residency with Factory of Dreams in Madrid Spain by Okuda San Miguel and is currently preparing for a solo show HomeComing for The Shurniak Gallery for 2024. Stephanie is humbled to serve the public in order to continue to progress in a spectrum of unity and color within the art sector.