City of the World

Kristin Burling is City of the World’s featured artist for April.  She has had a passion for art since she was young.  Kristin received an art scholarship when she graduated from Monona Grove High School in Wisconsin; got her BS in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a GPA of 3.75 in 1990.  Her emphasis was on painting.  She has taught elementary and middle school art in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Nevada for the last 18 years.  She took graduate level art classes at the University of Wisconsin, Northern Illinois University and UNLV and received her Masters from Lesley University in the “Creative Arts in Learning” Program.  She has a wide range of art from social political art to abstract – to a whole series from the conception and birth of her daughter, Kaelani to numerous portraits using her daughter as subject matter.  Many nature pictures and fun cartoon people complete the collection.  Acrylic, watercolors and oils are the art media she works in.