David L. Bell
David L.
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David L. Bell (b. Tampa, FL) is an artist and independent arts organizer who directs the Los Angeles-based art gallery Visitor Welcome Center, which he founded in 2016. Much of his work and collaborative projects are inspired by his upbringing on a southern California ecological preserve, where he was raised in a family of environmentalists. He is interested in storytelling, lyricism, and craft, and through the artist-run space Visitor Welcome Center, he works with artists to cultivate tangible and creative possibilities of lifelong artistic and soulful connections. Through connection, acknowledgement, and relationship building, art becomes a possibility towards truth and reconciliation.
In the past, Bell worked both as a firefighter for the US Forest Service and as a park ranger at Upper Tampa Bay State Park. His education is informed by hip hop, and he studied visual art at Metafora School of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain and at UCLA. Currently, he is an MFA candidate in Environmental Art and Social Practice at UC Santa Cruz.
http://visitorwelcomecenter.art
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