Arel Lisette (b. Riverside, California) is a visual artist working with charcoal and pastel to create drawings on paper. She received her BFA in Fine Art from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, is a graduate of the Professional Printer Training Program at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography, and is currently earning her MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited in the New Prints Program at the Print Center New York, NY; Kishka Gallery & Library, White River Junction, VT; Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Deli Gallery, New York, NY; Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY; and Casa Santa Ana, Panama City, Panama. She is a grant recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Alex Brown Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Macedonia Institute. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the City of Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico. Arel currently lives and works in New York City.