Stephanie Stewart is the multimedia artist and owner of P31 Art & Design. She has been a contributor to the arts and culture sector for many years and has built a creative business from the ground up. Stewart consistently produces original works of art that are used as a central point of inspiration for all of her handmade products and print goods. Stewart works in the mediums of acrylic paint, watercolor, and mixed media content. With her love for art with a focus on the contemporary genre, Stewart’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries and art venues throughout northeast Ohio. Most recently her work has been on view with the Akron Black Artist Guild, Women’s Art League of Akron, Summit County Land Bank, the GAR Foundation and The Weathervane Theater. She also has had public artworks on view through the City of Akron’s Traffic Box Art, Slavic Village Rooms to Let, Columbus Box Park, the City of Akron Juneteenth Festival, Waterloo Arts Project, and the City of Akron’s Kerr Park Mural installation.

Stephanie Stewart’s artist workshops are ageless and teach guided principles that focus on the basic elements of art. Stewart’s art classes have interdisciplinary qualities that incorporate subjects like science, English, and history. She demonstrates an all-inclusive teaching style that allows for the freedom of creativity to flow throughout her class focusing on the social-emotional learning (SEL) principles. Through conducting both self-guided and instructor-led classes with demonstrations, Stewart intends to draw out the self-assurance and self-love for her students’ creations. Stewart’s art workshops and lessons have been designed to be conducted remotely and in person.

Stewart believes there is creativity nested inside of everyone. Her teaching style is reflective of this belief by way of her learners exploring new methods of experimentation using non-traditional art mediums and tools. Building unique compositions through these experiments gives her class the opportunity to express themselves, problem solve, and use critical thinking skills.

 

RECENT PROJECTS: 

“The Abayomi Doll – Sharing hope and resilience through Art”, The Well CDC- 2026, ages 5-99, this make and take workshop, guided constituents through the history and making of the West African rag doll- Abayomi Doll.

“In Touch with your Canvas”, Akron Public Libraries Workshop Series, 2025, ages 13-up, using the 19th century Impressionist Arts Movement this series addressed the importance of physical touch with visual art via fingerpainting.

“4 Weeks – A Tapestry Black Art History”, Akron Public Libraries – 2025 ages 0-99, This program provides a remote learning experience centered on creating artwork inspired by well-renowned artists of Black American culture.

“On the Drying Rack – Afterschool Art Club”, West Akron 2025- Grades k-8, designed to help young artists develop their personal creative voice while learning how to carry themselves as artists within a community.

“Remember Balloons at Mason CLC”. Akron Public Schools (Akron), Grades k-5, 20 days of art and expression surrounding the book “The Remember Balloons” 2024. Students learned how to use art to share a story, in this case a rather difficult subject matter: Alzheimer’s and Dementia.

“Bio-Art: X-Ray My Hand”, En-Rich-Ment Arts Center (Canton), Grades 5-12, Semester series 2024: Students spent 12 weeks studying the human body’s skeletal system and creating works of art inspired by the lesson. In this example, we used clay to sculpt a 3-d image of our hand.

“Dino King”, The Edge Summer Camp (Twinsburg), Grades 1-7, Summer Camp 2024: Our summer art camp theme was Time Travel, where each day we spent in a different time era based on global world history. On this day, we used multimedia art elements and neo-expressionism techniques of Jean Michele Basquiat to create our work of art.

“Introducing Zines”, Summit Artspace (Akron), Ages 5-75 (ageless), Art Workshop Series 2024: Participants were guided through an interactive art workshop to create a traditionally made Zines (or little magazines) from a single piece of paper. Participants were provided materials and encouraged to share their story with others.

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Sunflower collages – No scissors allowed

Resist the Rain

“I made brown”