Here I should say something about myself. Not hard, really, unless I think about the potential of how many people could see this, if anyone ever discovers it. That's mind boggling enough to stump me.

This website serves as my online portfolio as well as a basic blog for people to keep up on me. Occasionally they remind me when I haven't done anything with it. And that it's really more bi-monthly or bi-yearly than I intended.

I received my bachelor's degree in the Fine Arts in 2003 from Gordon College - a tiny school in the North Shore of Mass. I'm working towards getting a masters, though that's years away yet. After that, I'm aiming to get a doctorate in art. Why? Because wouldn't it be cool to be introduced as "Steph Richards, PhD"? And then people would say, what's your degree in? And I could say, ART! That would be awesome.

I am married, and I took my husband's name, but for my art I'm sticking with my maiden name - Encelewski. I sign my work that way - it's like there's two of me. Richards does web design and development, and Encelewski is a fine artist. People have asked why I make this distinction, and I guess the best reasons I can come up with include the point that I can't go changing my signature on all my old pieces now, and it's possibly the most unique name ever, which is useful for people to remember me. (Please pronounce it en-cell-less-ski. It's appreciated.)

I'll write more when inspiration hits. In the meantime, there's always LinkedIn...

“A man who would succeed in communicating to us the desire of life in full breath and activity, without arriviste ambitions and without that false ideal of sacrifice which never ends in anything but the most absolute materialism. A man who would teach us not to hypnotize ourselves to sleep before a mirror. A man, finally, who would drag us toward the new world of discovery, the world of love which mediocre people don't want to enter and which horrifies ‘intellectuals’ afraid of ridicule.  Jesus Christ invented this way of life a long time ago; I would prefer it to the present dilution.”
~ Francis Picabia