Marianne Chapel is an artist, advocate for artists, curator, and collaborates on community driven art projects to affect social change. In 2020, she founded the SPAACES Foundation, an arts nonprofit supporting career-track artists with exhibitions and studios, creating a supportive group of like-minded artists. Chapel volunteers as a curator for SPAACES and creates exhibitions with an emphasis on new artforms and timely subjects.
Chapel received her BFA from Buffalo State College and her MFA Painting from Indiana University. While working towards her MFA, she traveled twice to Florence, Italy to study and teach for Indiana University. Chapel has been an adjunct instructor of art at the Ringling School of Art and Design, the Santa Fe University of Art and Design Santa Fe, the University of Tampa, and more. Chapel has received Indiana University’s Graduate Studies Research Grant, the Lanham Fellowship for Travel Abroad, a Vermont Studio Center Residency, a faculty grant from the Ringling College, and several grants to support the SPAACES artist gallery and studios. In 2022, she was granted a local award called “Women Who Roar,” recognizing women community leaders. She is on the advisory committee of the Park East Neighborhood Association, where the SPAACES Foundation is located.