Education

BA, Studio Art and Cognitive Science
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
First-Generation Low-Income (FLI) Scholar
Questbridge Scholar

Awards

Penland School of Craft, Scholarship
Intro to Bad Printmaking with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Asheville, NC
2025

Matthew Klopfleisch Memorial Prize in Art
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2024

Humanities Studio Undergraduate Fellowship
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2023-2024

La Ceiba Gráfica, Printmaking Residency
La Orduña, Veracruz, Mexico
2023

Perdita Sheirich Junior Art Prize Award
Rembrandt Club
2023

Best Social Media Reporting (Design)
California California College Media Association
2023

Library Undergraduate Research Award
Honnold Mudd Library Claremont, CA
2022

Exhibitions

In Full Expression, Sprague Gallery
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
2025

Pearl Diver, Chan Gallery
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2024

Everything, including the kitchen sink, Chan Gallery Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2023

Appearance of the Body, Sprague Gallery
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
2023

I write a message in the sky, Spit Gallery
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2023

Sun Break, Chan Gallery
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2023

Captured Vision: Optics in Early Modern European Art, Student Showcase, Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2023

Employment

Executive Assistant, Department of English
University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
2024 - Present

Gallery Assistant, Chan Gallery
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2023 - 2024

Creative Director, The Student Life Newspaper
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2022 - 2023

bibliography

My Siren/My Mermaid, “Intertextuality,” Art Block Zine, DSTL Arts, Fall 2023

“Louis Choris and Scientific Illustration: Visualizing Colonialism in New California,” Scholarship@Claremont Database, April 11, 2022

Press

Andrew Alonzo, “Rembrandt Club recognizes Pomona College student artists,” Claremont Courier, October 5, 2023

Bella Pettengill

Backyard Paintings

Grief-Spray Series

Romance Series

Hospice Series

An acute feeling like the acuteness of pain