Melanie Stimmell
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Melanie Stimmell Van Latum, born 1975 in Los Angeles, is an international 3D street painter and fine artist specializing in large scale chalk art and Renaissance-style inspired imagery.[1]
A Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, she began street painting in 1998 and has painted at festivals throughout the
, Stimmell's street paintings convey the spirit of creativity, art, and culture.Career
Melanie Stimmell Van Latum is a graduate of
Fine Art
Stimmell is a prolific fine artist creating whimsical works in soft pastels and oils that she shows predominantly through Park West Galleries. Her favorite subject is the divine feminine with elements of nature - sweet creatures and a serene environment with a bit of the quirky as her goddesses almost always sport incredibly sculptural, fantastical hair. In 2021, Stimmell and her team (We Talk Chalk) created the murals in the domed ceiling of the new Grand Entrance in Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.
Stimmell is also a fine artist creating works in soft pastels and oils that she shows in Southern California galleries under her married name, Melanie Van Latum. For the past 11 years Stimmell has been creating asphalt masterpieces and leading workshops for cultural and children's charity events around the world including Youth in arts, Children's Creative Project, Larimer Arts Association, Bakersfield Museum of Art Educational Programs,
Stimmell has worked in conjunction with online Photoshop guru Mark Monciardini of Photoshop Top Secret to create Photoshop tutorials for photographers and artists.
Chalk art
In 1999, while at South Park, Stimmell began
Stimmell is co-founder of 'We Talk Chalk', a company that offers solutions to event or marketing needs through the use of (3D) street painting and multimedia. Led by Melanie and Remco Van Latum, We Talk Chalk introduced the art of 3-D street painting to countries such as Israel, Thailand, Colombia, and The Republic of Georgia. The city of Chiang Mai hosted their first street painting festival in March 2012, with the help of Melanie, Remco, and 3 other We Talk Chalk artists. To celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of Tel Aviv suburb Ramat Hasharon, Israeli and 8 International artists from 'We Talk Chalk,' including Melanie, used 3-D chalk drawings to transform Bialik Street into an urban art compound. The festival had as many as 50,000 visitors, including Israel’s President Shimon Peres who posed with paintings by Melanie Stimmell and Ruben Poncia.
In August 2013, Stimmell and We Talk Chalk created the longest anamorphic painting in the world. The piece, commissioned by Smirnoff and developed in partnership with Index Creative Village and Nannapas Publisher Co., may be found in Asia’s famous Siam Center. Total length, an astounding 165 meters (543 feet). Total square footage measured just under 3,000.
In 2009, under the Stimmell's artistic direction, Expressions in Chalk Street Painting Festival in London, Ontario, Canada, recreated the central ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at 18 x 92 feet. Stimmell also worked as a featured artist on the 2002 San Rafael Sistine Chapel Project. Since then, Stimmell has secured her Maestro status[clarification needed] in Europe with her second win in the Netherlands and the highest honor a street painter is bestowed, Italy's Maestro Gold Medal in Grazie di Curtatone.
References
- ^ "City hosts 1st street-art event". The Arizona Republic. 18 October 2008. Retrieved 8 September 2012.