Kemlyn Tan Bappe is Peranakan, an inter-marriage of the Malay and Chinese culture. Tan Bappe creates in her studio in Mount Pleasant. She is executive and artistic director of Imago Fine Arts Agency & Advocacy and owner of Galleria Imago Dei, Fairfield. The artist resides with her husband, Ed Bappe and their three children, Catherine, Dorothy and Dietrich. "My work is a dialogue between my heritage, my faith journey and my responses to living in the United States of America." Gallery representation at Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, ArtDive, Des Moines and at Galleria Imago Dei,Fairfield.
2006 Shows, Exhibits & Commissions "Iowa Wetlands," Blank Park Zoo Des Moines Women's Club Juried Art Show, 2nd Place Professional Division "Adopt An Animal Tree of Life," Blank Park Zoo "On a Night Like This & Other Works," solo show at the Scottish Rite Park Gallery Jensen Elementary School Fine Arts Day AACI group show at Capital Square "Fabulous Fancy Fish & Other Works," solo show at Verboten Art & Design AACI group show at Ankeny Art Center "Fabulous Fancy Fish," joint Show, Blank Park Zoo Solo show at St. John's Lutheran Church
2007 November 2-4, Two Rivers Juried Art Expo, Hy-Vee Hall, Des Moines December 7, 2007 Grand Opening of Galleria Imago Dei, Fairfield, Reception: 6:30-9:30 PM
2008 March, 2008 Des Moines Women's Club Annual Art Show, Hoyt Sherman Place, Des Moines June, Woman's Show Jane Elgin, Janet Hart Heinicke, Jill Wells, Kemlyn Tan Bappe, Dawn Martinez Oropeza, Judith Veeder, Ankeny Art Center, Ankeny
