Kirah is a lifelong artist and adventurer at heart. Her early years set a foundation for travel, exploration and the fundamentals to visual storytelling. Her paintings and mixed media works are deeply personal expressions of memory and dreams, inspired by nature and geological forms. In addition to her studio practice, Kirah is a dynamic instructor, lecturer, mentor and coach, leading custom studio and plein air courses directed to both beginner and professional artists. She also creates custom international art and cultural history travel workshops. Kirah brings rich insight to materials and traditional and contemporary processes. She is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer and studio artist, a certified Golden Artist-Educator and Silver Brush Artist-Educator. She is active in community arts programming and passionate about preservation of cultural and natural resources.
Kirah is a staff instructor at the Museum School at Cameron Art Museum, and adjunct instructor at Cape Fear Community College and Johnston Community College.
You will find her splitting time between her home in the Cape Fear region of NC and Umbria, Italy.
Learn more at: www.kirahfineart.com and IG @kirahart
