biography

Stella Untalan is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Born in Guam in 1955, educated in NYC, settled in Philadelphia.

Stella has made art for as long as she can remember. She would organize her crayons, pencils, and paints by hue and value then fan them out into little color wheels before beginning each of her drawings; a ritual she still performs.

Stella studied drawing and printmaking at the Art Students League and School of Visual Arts in New York City. She studied communication design at Parsons in New York City and has been a creative professional for more than 30 years. The disciplined and intuitive aspects of being a designer and artist, the work and the play, the seeing and the telling, are totally integrated expressions.