Donna Lee Steffens

My artistic vision is based on my desire to reconnect the human experience with the world around us; to show that everything is connected to, and dependent upon, everything else. My personal hope is to create beautiful artwork that resonates that feeling in the mind and perceptions of the viewer, to create work that allows the viewer to contemplate the interrelationships among all things in his or her experience.

Donna Lee Steffens was born in Miami, Florida, where she also lives and works. Donna earned her BFA ( Magna Cum Laude ) in 2006, at Florida International University, with a concentration in mixed media. She also studied painting at The Institute For American Universities, in Aix-en-Provence, France. She currently works out of her studio at The Bake House Art Complex in Miami Florida.

Her work is in the private collections of Harvey Oxenberg, gallery owner of  Oxenberg Fine Art Gallery, Mark and Arlys Raymond, Dr. Fredric S. Brandt, and The Honorable Judge Gisela Cardonne Ely. She is also in the permanent collections of  Miami Dade College, Doral, and The Deering Estate.

She has received grants and awards, which include, the Leo and Raye Chestler Contemporary Visual Arts Award, The Daniel Azoulay Scholarship, and The Miami Dade College Art Department Scholarship. She also has been invited to participate in the Florence Biennale, 2013.

Donna works in a variety of materials that include resin, Plexiglas, and Swarovski crystals. Her work is informed by personal experience and by the desire to unify body, mind and spirit.