Gina Stebbins

Artist Bio

Gina Stebbins is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on performance. She originally trained in the visual arts, earning her BA in Interior Architecture and Design. After working in the design industry for four years, she began teaching programs such as Architecture/Painting for Gallery 37. At this time she earned her Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College.  Here she developed her passion for performance. As co-creator of the group “2 Girls and an Audience”, her work is influenced by modern dance and physical theater. The group performs Gina’s original pieces which are inspired by physical improvisation techniques, journal writing and research. 

“2 girls and an Audience” have performed at various venues and festivals: Link’s Hall Alumni show “Glass Layers”; Full Circle Dance Festival; Stage Left, Preview Season; Spareroom - group show “Swallowed Whole”; and Glade Memorial Hall, Vaudeville Underground.  Last spring they collaborated with Arts Alliance in “Circle in the Square: New Works in Dance Theater”, earning favorable mention in the Chicago Tribune. In April 2006 they were invited to perform in the touring exhibition “Venus Envy” beginning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Artist Philosophy

Being an artist is a way of thinking, seeing and creative problem-solving for individual expression that is integral to the learning process. I believe the arts are a communion of experience between the creator, the work itself and the audience that can alter an individual and the community. It is my passion for this experience that motivates me to perform and to teach. More specifically, I would like to help students discover their own creative process through performance and writing that they may build confidence in their own individual voice.