Meet the Rabbit: Stephanie Li
The rabbits' organizer-in-chief, whose work can be seen around Boston!
Introducing Stephanie Li, the rabbits’ organizer-in-chief and administration diva! Stephanie is a muralist, illustrator, and storyteller based in Boston. Her work celebrates nature, explores emotions and memories, and illuminates science. Inspired by her love for nature and fantasy, she enjoys creating vibrant scenes that bring wonder to the everyday and help people feel a little less alone in this world.
Stephanie and her husband Mike regularly invite friends, coworkers, and coworkers who’ve become friends over for dinner parties in their home. Mike and Stephanie cook dishes from all over the world, and as a rule they come out better than anything you could find in a restaurant. SaraMarie was lucky enough to be one of Mike’s coworkers who had become a friend, and met Stephanie many times for dinner parties and dinners out where they would talk about art and zines.
Stephanie and SaraMarie started to work on similar projects after discussing ideas together, and would always share what they made with each other. The experience was inspiring and led to new zines from them both. Here’s an example of one idea interpreted in two ways:
Then, Stephanie found out about a grant for local artists that she thought it could be fun to try applying for. She got SaraMarie and her friend (and now fellow rabbit) Jane Kim-Testa together to come up with ideas for what public art ideas to propose. SaraMarie asked if they might consider applying under Rabbits of Realness, and both agreed. RoR hadn’t run any workshops at the time, but Spoon had, and there was a lot of material to work with. They didn’t end up getting the grant, but it was clear from the experience of applying that it was the beginning of an inspiring and easy working relationship. Shortly after, both Stephanie and Jane agreed to join RoR and applied for many more opportunities, many of which did work out, and led to the many workshops and zine fairs that RoR hosted and participated in last year (2025).
Since signing on, Stephanie has worn a million different hats for Rabbits of Realness. She’s become RoR’s de facto manager — she keeps us on track for event planning, grant applications, and event applications. As a leader of some of these workshops, including “Childhood Memories of Food” based on her zine of the same name, she’s known for making participants feel at ease, always ready to have a thoughtful conversation. People leave RoR workshops saying they’re glad to have met her. Beyond this, Stephanie’s created a number of zines for RoR that have touched and brought warmth to those that read them.
Although her personal practice is rooted in digital art and illustration, Stephanie has spent the last couple years branching out into more physical media. In 2024, she worked with the Pao Arts Center as well as artists Jennifer Duan and Katelyn Lipton to bring painted ping pong tables to Chinatown in an effort to encourage intergenerational gathering, play, and wellness. Her ping pong table, “People of Chinatown,” celebrates the people who live in, work in, and visit the neighborhood. Last year, the Pao Arts Center featured the ping pong tables in their exhibit “Celebrations of Perseverance: Public Art in Chinatown, 2024-2025.”
Stephanie also experimented with screen printing last year as one of Antidesigns’ featured guests at their Test Print Tuesday events, hosted by Zone 3. She further explored physical media by creating “Letters to the Earth,” a series of mini-zines that are constructed of seed paper and made to be planted. In 2026, she’s looking forward to working more with papier-mâché. She’s starting with a small teacup, and seeing where that takes her!
Outside of her artwork and work with the rabbits, Stephanie is an avid hiker, voracious reader, and host of the aforementioned wonderful dinner parties that the rabbits have benefitted from many a time. She’s also a dancer, a musician… the list goes on. What we’re trying to say is that Stephanie is awesome, and she can do everything.
Subscribe to Stephanie’s Substack “Flowerstorm” to keep up with her art. If you’re interested in collaborating with her on a project, you can reach out at hello@stephanieliart.com.