About Me
Stephanie Szemetylo has been an active artist in Muskingum County Ohio since the age of ten when she joined the Zanesville Appalachian Arts Project. She sold her first painting, “Masquerade”, at the ZAAP art show held at the Palmer Gallery of Muskingum College that year.
Since then, Szemetylo has explored varied mediums from encaustics, watercolor, acrylics, oil, charcoal, pencil, oil pastels, clay, sharpie, metals, and marzipan, creating paintings, sculptures, and jewelry. She is most known for her line of unique jewelry sold under her logo “Jewelry by Szemartie.” The logo is based on the nickname her homeroom teacher gave her in eighth grade as she began venturing into the jewelry phase. In fall 2007, Szemetylo earned a first place ribbon for her necklace “Purple Sea” at the Women of Appalachia Juried Art Exhibit at Ohio University-Zanesville. In November 2008, Szemetylo was chosen as the Artist of the Month for the Artist Colony of Zanesville and featured artist for that month’s First Friday Gallery Hop.
Szemetylo has sold her work at various ZAAP sponsored art shows, the Crooksville Art Walk, and since fall 2007 at Gallery Z in downtown Zanesville. Through her artwork donations, she has raised roughly $2,500 for local non-profits, such as the Zanesville Museum of Art, the Muskingum County Community Foundation, the East Central Ohio Dance Theatre, the PowerHouse of Southeastern Ohio, and others.
In addition to studying with local established artists, Szemetylo received a merit scholarship to attend a summer intensive program in jewelry at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007. In the summer of 2008, she spent six weeks in the pre-college program at the Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Industrial Design. She is currently an industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Art, Architecture, & Planning where she is blending her love of the arts with her love of science and math.
