Noel Kassewitz is a contemporary artist and third-generation Floridian currently based in Washington, D.C. After receiving her BFA in Studio Painting from the University of Florida and working with the prestigious Rubell Museum, she later completed an artist residency in Carrara, Italy with marble master sculptor Boutros Romhein. In addition to her studio practice, she currently works in Sculpture Conservation at the National Gallery of Art. Kassewitz has given an artist talk at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, guest written for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Huffington Post, Financial Times, BMore Art, and PBS WETA. Her work has exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA) and IA&A at Hillyer (Washington, DC), along with exhibitions in Miami, FL; Chicago, Il; and State College, PA; as well as in Milan and Bologna, Italy. Kassewitz was recently awarded the 2020-2021 DC-CAH Visual Artist Fellowship Grant and her work has been acquired for the permanent public art collections of both the District of Columbia’s City Art Bank and the University of Maryland’s CAPP collection.