Stephanie Rond was born in Columbus Ohio.  She attended Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School and went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University in 1997.  Her most recent body of work deals with human nature, animal instinct, gender, and the culture of graffiti and street art. She is a 2011-2012 artist in residence at the Wexner Center for the Arts in the Pages program as well as a recipient of the 2010 Ohio State University Emerging Artist Fellowship.  Stephanie has had solo and group shows in Columbus, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Atlanta and has exhibited in many juried shows including “Art at the X” in Cincinnati in which she won first prize. In addition, Stephanie is Curator of the Carnegie Gallery at Main Library and Director of the S.Dot Gallery.  She is co-founder of Creative Arts of Women (CAW) and is part of the art collective, Cowtown Lowbrow. When she grows up she would like to be a crossword puzzle guru and domestic cat herder.