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Kimberly Mehler
Visual Artist
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA 1981
Watercolor Study with Susanne Okamoto and Melissa Olsen 2005 – present
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Artessa Alliance, Artist Cooperative, member 2006 - present
Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators, member 2016 - 2020
Abington Art Center, member 2007 - 2014
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, member 2014 - present
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Watercolors
2024 In Celebration of Trees, Juried Exhibition, Old City Jewish Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Walking the Edge, Juried, Exhibition, The Schuylkill Center, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Matter and Energy, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2023 Interconnected, Awbury Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA
2023 82nd Annual Member’s show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2022 81st Annual Member’s show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2021 Ebb and Flow, Pii Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Monitor and Adjust, Clay on Main, Oley, PA
2021 Apart/Together Artessa Alliance Biennial, Cheltenham Center for the Arts,
2021 80th Annual Member’s show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2020 KMKM Kelp Meditations – Juried Solo Exhibition Foulkeways Gallery, Gywnedd, PA
2020 79th Annual Member’s show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2019 Marginalized, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Marginalized, Montgomery County Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Bluebell, PA
2019 Process, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Artessa Alliance Biennial, Cheltenham PA
2018 89th Annual Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, Phillip’s Mill, New Hope, PA
2018 Summer Work, Group Exhibition, Salus University, Elkins Park, PA
2018 Juried Alumni Exhibition, Gallery at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Juried Painter’s Exhibition, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2018 Wonders of Water, Philadelphia Flower Show, Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2018 77th Annual Member’s show, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2017 Holland/Flowering the World/Philadelphia Flower Show, Juried Exhibit,Philadelphia, PA
2017 Prelude to Spring, Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators,
Philadelphia Horticultural Society, McLean Library, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Botanicals, Juried Exhibition, MCCC Fine Arts Gallery, Blue Bell, PA
2017 Solo Show, Rock Hill Gallery, Sellersville, PA
2017 Message to our Daughters, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Elegant Forms (Bone Series) and Passages (Magnolia Series), Solo Show
Kimberly Mehler at BSquare Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Artessa Alliance 10 – Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2016 National Parks, Philadelphia Flower Show, Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2015 ReCollection, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2014 Outer Limits - Juried Exhibition, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
2014 The Road to Here – BSquare Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Arbor Day Exhibition - Grove House, Roslyn, PA
2013 Pennsylvania Artists, Pennsylvania State Capitol Rotunda, Harrisburg, PA
2013 Miss Representation/Represent, Hiway Theater/Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA
2013 Arts and ReCreation – Juried Exhibition, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Begin - Faith, Hope, Resilience – Juried Exhibition, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Begin – Faith, Hope, Resilience, Sweet Mabel, Narberth, PA
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Art in the Atrium, Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, PA
2012 Einstein Hospital, led, curated, created work for large collaborative commission, PA
2011 Landscape LOVE – Juried Exhibition, Love Park Welcome Center,Philadelphia, PA
2010 (W)holons - Patrick Henry College, Martinsville, VA
2010 (W)holons - Abington Art Center, Abington, PA
2010 Women in the Arts, Abington Friends School, Abington, PA
2009 Works on Paper - International House, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Who Does She Think She Is? Hiway Theatre, Jenkintown, PA
2009 Solo Exhibition, Joshua’s Jenkintown, PA
1995 Walk in Other’s Shoes, Artforms Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Wire Vessels
2013 ONE YEAR Collaborative Multidisciplinary Installation and Performance,
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Rotunda/University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,
2013 ONE YEAR Collaborative Installation – The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA,
PUBLIC ART / MURAL COMMISSIONS
2021 Briar Bush Nature Center, Abington, PA, installation pending, per PennDot
2020 Bloom, A Child’s First Step Daycare, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Artist in Residence, Freedom, Carver Science and Engineering HS, Philadelphia, PA
2018 Let the Music Soar! Abington High School Choral Department, Abington, PA
2017 Artist in Residence, Emerge, Wordsworth Academy, Flourtown, PA
2016 Look Up at the Cosmos, Collaboration, Mission First Housing, Philadelphia, PA
2015 On the Shoulders of Giants, Central Bucks East High School, Bucks County, PA
2014 Glenside Pride, SEPTA Underpass, Cheltenham Township and SEPTA, Glenside, PA
2013 To Music, Abington High School Choral Department, Abington, PA
2012 Connected Communities, SEPTA Underpass, Cheltenham Township, Glenside, PA
2012 Playing in the Garden, A Child’s First Step Daycare, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Woodland Forest Educational Mural, CHOP Care Network, Flourtown, PA
2010 Clefs, Abington High School Choral Department, Abington, PA
2009 Peter Pan Set Design, Metropolitan Ballet Academy, Abington, PA
2008 Treasure Books, The Elkins Park Free Library, Elkins Park, PA
2007 Artist in Residence, Worlds of Wonder, McKinley Elementary, Abington, PA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Temple University, CST DEI grant, $20,000, 2025
Temple University, CST DEI grant, $20,000, 2023
Cultural Alliance PA Council for the Arts grant, 2012, 2013
USA Artists/Hatchfund Artist Advocacy Grant, 2012
Leeway Foundation for Art and Change Grants, 2011, 2013
TEACHING
2024, 2023, 2022 Carver Science Competition Judge
2019 Juror, Congressional Art Contest, District of Representative Madeleine Dean
2019 Marginalized, Montgomery County Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Artist’s talk
2016 –2019 Temple University, STEAM Camp, Art Curriculum Development and Instruction
2018 Bernard Harris STEM Summer Camp - workshops
2017 Carver High School, Artist in Residence, taught public art and mural painting
2017 Arcadia University, guest speaker: Public Art and Mural Making
2010 - 2016 Monthly Grief Support Art Therapy, Mothers in Charge, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Einstein Medical Center, Mongtomery, Artist’s talk
2013 Cheltenham Art Center, Wire Vessel Workshops, Cheltenham, PA
2012 Educated/ supervised volunteers to help paint SEPTA Underpass Mural, Glenside, PA
2005 and 2011 McKinley Elementary Teaching Artist in Residence, Abington, PA
2003 – 2012 Set Design, annually, Taught Theatrical Set Design, for Abington SD
1998 CBSD, Teaching Artist in Residence at Unami middle school. Central Bucks, PA
1995 – present Annual Pysanky (Wax resist dyeing) workshops
1991- 1995 Central Bucks School District – Environmental Club – Art/Activism
PRESS
The Intelligencer Article, Marginalized, 2019
Bucks County Courier Times Article, Marginalized, 2019
Times Herald article, Marginalized, 2019
ABC Channel 6, Story on Abington High School Choral Mural, 2014
Glenside News Globe Times Chronicle, Septa Underpass Mural 2014
ARTBLOG September 2013 “In the midst of Philadelphia’s busiest month of cultural happenings,
One Year may be the most important to experience.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, Melissa Dribben, September 2013 Mothers Pain on the Wire
KYW Radio ONE YEAR 2013
City Paper ONE YEAR, September 2013
Philadelphia Weekly ONE YEAR, September 2013
Northeast Times ONE YEAR, September 2013
Wire art represents city’s homicide victims John Loftus
WXPN, ONE YEAR, September 2013
WPHL Channel 17, January 2013 ONE YEAR, members interview with Lauren Intindoli
Philadelphia Inquirer, and MSN.com news, anti gun violence photo,January 2013
The Painted Bride Website, ArtsCrawl, December 2012, January 2013
NewsWorks.org December 2012 Maleka Fruean; “Artists continue their work memorializing every
Philadelphia homicide victim of 2012”.
NPR radio, Yowei Shaw, “Honoring each Philadelphia homicide victim with art” March 2012
BENFM, February 2013 Women of the Week Interview with Marilyn Russell (Artessa members)
discussing Miss Representation screening and Represent Art Exhibit
Moore College of Art Magazine, Alumni news, 2013
Philadelphia Inquirer Amy S. Rosenberg: “Images to Soothe” Beginnings -
installed in the new Einstein Medical Center Montgomery, September 2012
Perspectives, Einstein Magazine, Beginnings 2012
Philadelphia Stories Magazine, Artwork, December 2012
Cheltenham Township Magazine Article, Connected Communities Mural, Sept, 2012
Mural Articles: Times Chronicle, News and Views, Citizen’s Call, Abington Patch, June 2012
Leeway Foundation News July, August, September 2012
Times Chronicle, Philadelphia Tribune, Articles Citizen’s Call, Mural articles February 2012
Philadelphia Inquirer mural photo, 2009
Montgomery News, Philly.com, and Philadelphia Stories articles “Who does she
think she is?” Film screening and art exhibit 2009
Times Chronicle article, Library mural 2004
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