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CCE, Boston Museum School
BA, Empire State College

Biography

Rebecca Welz is a Manhattan-based sculptor and educator, who has many interests in the fine arts and design. She is currently working on a book that investigates biomimicry and its applications in industrial design.

She has led many design projects outside the confines of an educational institute, including biomimicry research in the Turks and Caicos and Belize. In 2009, she led the Guyana Project, where she guided industrial design students in the manufacture of furniture prototypes out of rapidly renewable non-timber forest products in Guyana, South America.

As a sculptor, she is represented by The June Kelly Gallery in New York, as well as numerous galleries on the west coast. She has received many grants fellowships for her work, namely from Pollock Krasner, Urban Glass and the ED Foundation.

Rebecca is this Founder of Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID), and led the first exhibition of product design by women in the US called “Goddess in the Details.” Her work is featured in public and private collections around the world, and has been features in Sculpture Magazine, Art News, and Art in America.

Personal URL

Education

CCE, Boston Museum School
BA, Empire State College

Biography

Rebecca Welz is a Manhattan-based sculptor and educator, who has many interests in the fine arts and design. She is currently working on a book that investigates biomimicry and its applications in industrial design.

She has led many design projects outside the confines of an educational institute, including biomimicry research in the Turks and Caicos and Belize. In 2009, she led the Guyana Project, where she guided industrial design students in the manufacture of furniture prototypes out of rapidly renewable non-timber forest products in Guyana, South America.

As a sculptor, she is represented by The June Kelly Gallery in New York, as well as numerous galleries on the west coast. She has received many grants fellowships for her work, namely from Pollock Krasner, Urban Glass and the ED Foundation.

Rebecca is this Founder of Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID), and led the first exhibition of product design by women in the US called “Goddess in the Details.” Her work is featured in public and private collections around the world, and has been features in Sculpture Magazine, Art News, and Art in America.