I’m Stephanie Eichelberger,

a traveling artist with an affinity for monsters and other curious creatures.

After living and traveling around the USA throughout my life, my work has become a process of self-evaluation in a world I’ve never quite felt like I belong.

 

Too quiet, too outspoken, too emotional, too timid, too fat, too thin, too much, not enough... I, myself, have always felt like a monster, a creature cast onto the side.

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Walking the line of adorable and unsettling, my creatures and surreal environments are created as reflections of my journey navigating the human experience. Joy, fear; love, loss; grief, growth is presented in a pastel-colored universe accentuated with stark contrast and nostalgia.
 

Moving, experiencing new situations, meeting new people, and adjusting to different environments, mental health, and severe health obstacles has taught me to appreciate the weird, the curious, and to embrace uncertainty--including within myself. I'm endlessly inspired by elaborate costumes and headpieces, obscure vintage shops, 80s and 90s nostalgia, medieval folklore, getting lost the woods, California coastlines, street art, bad jokes, and all the fluffy things. The backgrounds in my work are inspired by the Jemez Mountains and White Sands in New Mexico, Rocky Mountains of Colorado, rocky coastlines of California, and mossy forests of the east coast.

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Merch and one of a kind items can be found at my shop Bashful Beasts at Arizona Renaissance Festival, Colorado Renaissance Festival, Pittsburgh Renassance Festival, and New York Renaissance Faire.

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Additionally my work can be found at Meow Wolf's gift shop in Santa Fe, KEEP Contemporary, Stranger Factory, and Revolution Gallery.

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Inquiries for project proposals, gallery shows, wholesale, etc can be sent here.
 

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