
mobilizing positve creative forces
Roanoke, Virginia Area

mobilizing positve creative forces
Roanoke, Virginia Area
Beth Deel is an intra-disciplinary artist living and working in Roanoke, VA. She recently completed her MFA in Dance this summer at Hollins University and American Dance Festival and holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO. Since 2000 Beth has been flying off tall buildings in aerial dance productions, organizing art exhibitions, teaching, and contributing to innovative design projects. Ms. Deel has teamed with design maven, Wendy Schuyler, to create Roanoke's first ever intra-disciplinary design firm, upUPperiscope.com. Their most exciting and popular projects to date include the brilliant interactive online calendar www.myScoper.com and the new arts space, The Water Heater.
Beth Deel spent Fall 08 as visiting professor of Dance at SungKyunKwan University in Seoul, Korea. An experiment being in two places at once while sharing UP UP responsibilities with her business partner in Roanoke via the boundlessness of the Internets!
mini think tank, adobe cs3 designer, can draw and paint, dance maker, techno enthusiast, idea maker, iprov everywehre agent and a work in progress
(Design industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
(Primary/Secondary Education industry)
September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)
Teaching Graduate and Undergraduate Modern Dance Classes, including technique, composition, and improvisation.
(Design industry)
2000 — 2006 (6 years)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Fine Art industry)
January 2000 — June 2005 (5 years 6 months)
design + marketing + promotion
professional dancer + choreographer
MFA , Dance , 2006 — 2007
MFA degree in Dance from Hollins University and American Dance Festival at Duke University.
BFA , Painting and Printmaking , 1996 — 1999
I love this place!