Noël Kassewitz
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Two-Week, Session I
Noël Kassewitz (b.1990, Miami) is a contemporary artist and third-generation Floridian based in Washington, D.C. After receiving her BFA from the University of Florida, she worked with the Rubell Museum and later, living abroad, completed an artist residency in Carrara, Italy with marble master sculptor Boutros Romhein. In addition to her studio practice, she currently works in sculpture conservation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Kassewitz has given an artist talk at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, is a five-time recipient of the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities’ Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, and was recently named an inaugural Environmental Justice ‘Artivist’ Fellow with Social Arts & Culture + Aspen Institute (2024). She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governors Island (summer 2022) and at Vermont Studio Center through the VSC/Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship (autumn 2022).
Her work is held in various private collections as well the public art collections of the District of Columbia, the University of Maryland, and the University of Florida and the corporate collections of MindTree and Outerknown.