Stephanie DeHart is a visual artist from Falls Church, Virginia. The arts have always played a big role in her life. She has practiced ballet seriously since she was four years old. Growing up, she was always drawing, and used to catalogue her experiences by drawing daily in various sketchbooks. Visual art has been her mechanism for understanding the natural world, and she constantly seeks to find connections between her two majors, Environmental Science and Studio Art. Living in Oslo, Norway for three years in high school also fostered this interest. At UVA now, she’s starting to make art that explores lived experiences and the emotional psyche. Stephanie is a member of the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition, and she’s really interested in various forms political art can take and how it’s used in social movements and organizing. She also loves working with children and participates in Early Visions at UVA. Stephanie is engaging more and more with the greater Charlottesville community, and her work was recently exhibited at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative’s show, Ridged: An Exhibition of Local LGBTQ+ Artists.