Stephanie Costello lives and works in Brooklyn, and has been a Teaching Artist in New York City since 2014. For the last four years she has been teaching with Artists Space, where she is an instructor for Portfolio Development on the Lower East Side and in Washington Heights. She has taught nearly every age group through-out the New York City area–from teaching printmaking to elementary students in Hoboken, to instructing painting to senior citizens in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She is a visual artist with a concentration in painting and drawing, and also creates public works of art–most recently a large-scale project with NBA player Taj Gibson and Project Backboard on the basketball courts at Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn, NY. Her artwork is centered around urban themes and she brings this interest to her teaching work–exploring the visual life of cities and engaging students in using their own neighborhoods as inspiration. Stephanie received her Masters Degree in Fine Art from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has shown her artwork in galleries and museums from New York to Shang-hai. She was a 2019 recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Council’s SU-CASA grant for Teaching Artists.