Kristin is a published poet, artist and teacher. She holds a BA in English and Studio Art from Connecticut College, an MFA in writing from Bennington College and a Masters equivalent teaching certificate from The Center for Anthroposophy. She has worked in advertising and founded and taught at an educational nonprofit, through which she also homeschooled her children. She currently studies at the Bridgeview School of Arts in New York City with Sasha Budayev, and is a resident artist at the Lancaster Art Vault.

Kristin’s paintings have been exhibited at Ganondagan Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan NY State Historic Site, Van der Plas gallery in NYC, Third Story Gallery, and the Lancaster Art Vault. She has been a juried artist and her artwork exhibited at the Marietta Arts Alive Rivertowns 2024 Plein Air festival.

Her poetry has been published in Western Humanities Review at the University of Utah as well as in the Columbia University Journal of Arts and Literature. It has also been featured as part of an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Fine Art.

She has studied healing and intuition, therapeutic listening and Anthroposophy. Her father, Luis R. Lee, is an enrolled full-blood Seneca, and she is a tribal artisan.

Her Haudenosaunee name given to her by her great-grandmother is Ganä:gah:is, She splashes water.

These life experiences and studies are woven into her fine arts work, which she experiences as a sacred act of creativity and community and individual healing.

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KRISTIN'S WORK