Erika Kjorlie-Geery is a professional artist, arts educator, actor, author and filmmaker working in a diverse variety of art mediums. Her work has been published in print and online media throughout the United States. Erika’s artwork is owned and collected by celebrities and art lovers around the world.
She graduated from Washburn University in 2001 with a B.A. majoring in Art and minoring in English. Erika has been a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated since the Spring of 1993.
After graduating she moved to Austin, Texas where she worked in the commercial art, photography, music and motion picture industries. She continued to show her artwork in galleries throughout Texas and the Midwest. She served as vice president of the Pearl Street
Darkroom Co-op from 2003-2008. She taught Alternative Process Photography workshops at the University of Texas at Austin in the Architecture Department’s Darkroom from 2004-2008.
In 2008 she returned to Kansas to marry fellow artist John Geery. Since 2018 she has served on the board of the Lawrence Corporation for the Advancement of the Visual Arts, (Lawrence Percolator). Erika served as Elementary and Middle School Judge and Event Speaker for the USD 497 Vanguard Awards in 2019. She was a 2021 Artist Inc Fellow through the Mid America Arts Alliance. She is currently Art Director and Art Teacher (1st-8th grades) at Raintree Montessori School where she has worked since 2016. She also works as a Visual Arts Teacher at the Lawrence Arts Center since 2019. Her filmmaking credits can be viewed on IMdB.com
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