Stella Coyle Healey
Stella Coyle Healey was born and raised on the East Side of Saint Paul and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2025 with BFA in Sculpture and Art History. She is heavily influenced by surrealist and psychedelic thought as well as her midwestern surroundings. Through repetitive processes like collage, wood working and sewing, physical and theoretical layers are formed and stripped away within her work. These processes operate as acts of care and love- always referential and always contextual. She utilizes this way of making to explore topics like gender performance, mental illness, desirability and life under American Capitalism.
Education
2025
BFA, Major in Fine Arts Studio; Sculpture, Minor in Art History,
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Group Exhibitions
2024
Made at MCAD,
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis MN
2025
Look Closely: Art made on a small scale,
Jan Johansson gallery at Rum river Art center, Anoka MN
Awards
2024
Kinji Akagawa Merit Scholarship,
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Professional Experience
2026-present
Assistant Artist
Heart of the Beast Puppet Theatre
2022-present
Volunteer props and costume Assistant
Speaking Out Collective
2023
Commissioned illustration work
Speaking Out Collective
Summer 2023,
Children’s Bookmaking workshop ,
MN Writers Workshop Day Camp at the University of Minnesota
In association with Speaking Out Collective
Summer 2024,
Children’s Collage workshop
MN Writers Workshop Day Camp at the University of Minnesota
In association with Speaking Out Collective
