Essentially Stewart is a fusion artist, blurring the lines between the traditional fields; paint, sculpture, print, design and the digital milieu of web, interactivity, projection, video and social media.

Contextually her work centers on what it means to be post human.

Humor noir is her stylistic signpost. The visual dialogue requires the viewer to possess a sleuth like eye, who is particularly attracted to a socially charged bumpy ride. She layers and veils visual double-en tend res to expose the axis of several steps of meaning. Work is logically laid out, like a handle on a door, a door in a room, a room with a person, a person in a home, a house in a culture, a culture in a country, and a country in time. Each artwork is a riddled bread crumb on one of several trails in the broader scope of my work.

Conceptually she's guided by Bertolt Brecht's connective relationship with the audience, Margaret Mead's ideals of personal and cultural responsibility, and contemporary art critic Nicolas Bourriaud's writings about the semionaut's role.

Visually and technically she's influenced by a seemingly disparate group of artists & futurists: Buckminster Fuller, Barbara Krugar, John Heartfield, Laurie Simmons, Cai Guo Qiang, George Rousse, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jeff Wall, Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, and Clifford Still.

Current Project:

Virtual Existential Installation & Exhibition:

• Antiques, Dolls and Artists Are Ghosts Too

Stewart graduated from the University of California Santa Cruz with an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media. Her expertise is in current online trends, User Experience, social networking, and media development.

Stewart also posses a BFA in Fine Art, and various Business Certificates.

She brings her fine and digital art knowledge and 10 plus years of practical experience as a designer in print, web and architecture to her classroom. As a consultant and business owner she is able inspire confidence and innovation.

Core Courses:

• Web Design (Beginner & Advanced)
  • (CSS, HTML, PhotoShop, Flash & Dreamweaver)
• UX/User Experience/User Interface
• Color & Design Theory
• Professional Practices
• Technology for Business Applications

Stewart is one person who understands the fiscal and technical limitations and opportunities that various media & technology affords business today.

She recognizes that the problem today is that many businesses have difficulty managing their precious resources; often chasing fads while underutilizing tools that realize profitability and consumer brand loyalty.

Key Technical Skills

• Usability & Purpose
• Training & Consulting
• Design & Production

Technological Insights

• technology is poorly understood
• potential is overestimated
• required skills are not available
• departmental conflicts
• goals are not clearly defined
• unrealistic budgets & time-lines
• poor testing
• user poorly defined