Stephanie Vehnon grew up in the flat lands of Saskatchewan. She has always been an involved community and school member, interested in helping others, engaging in creative activity and problem solving. Vehnon is an integrated media design artist, working with multiple mediums and art forms, re-using materials wherever possible to create new masterpieces.
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Diploma at Lakeland College in Environmental Monitoring and Protection
Bachelor of Science: Environmental Science degree at the University of Lethbridge
These both helped Vehnon to gain a better understanding of environmental concerns and built her passion to help the environment.
Current employment: City of Lethbridge, in the Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Department
This helped to enhance communications and education in environmental concerns. It has helped to focus her artistic attention to waste reduction and re-use.
This position has helped learn programs such as InDesign, Photoshop. Illustrator, and Visio.
Bachelor of Management: General Management degree at the University of Lethbridge
This degree helped enhance time management skills, and drew upon Vehnon's passion for coaching, organizing, leading, and learning to stand out from the crowd. It is here that she learned marketing and business skills that have helped with her artistic expression, social media content strategies, and starting a business.
BFA (New Media) at the University of Lethbridge (current)
Vehnon is exploring her creative passion further. With a minor in Art Studio, she is learning to combine all her experience and education to create a unique art experience for her audience.
She has built skills in Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects, Figma, sculpting, drawing, and painting.
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Vehnon has started a business as a creative consultant, SA Creative Studios. She is a diverse individual, with multiple creative passions, and a desire for organization. Her business currently focuses on photography, abstract art, and creative reuse, but is expanding to include writing, organizing consulting, and life coaching. It is with her business that her true passion lies, being creative and abstract in her visual representations and writing, as well as helping others get organized and reach their dreams and life goals.
Vehnon was awarded silver in Lethbridge CommunityVotes for Photography in 2022
Vehnon has a dream to create workshops, incorporating mindful photography as a tool for self reflection and personal development. Other workshops to focus on organizing, especially emergency preparedness and time management, life coaching to help with personal development, and creative reuse to upcycle old items.
She also has a dream, and 5-year plan, to move to Newfoundland!