Kristian M Jenkins

Kristian M Jenkins is a Lubbock Native, born in 1988. She attended Texas Tech University from 2006-2010 to pursue a dual degree in Visual Art and Psychology. As life would have it, her education took a detour and she then attended South Plains College where she completed her Associate Degree in Visual Art in 2016. She continues to live in Lubbock pursuing a career as a Business Development Director for a Hospice Company, where she thrives on the divine intervention of impacting people and creates art in every spare moment with the same motivation.

Kristian began developing her skills at a young age and participated in Youth Art Month, Scholastic Art Events, and received a Gold Key Award for her Senior Portfolio as well as having a piece displayed in New York. She was given the opportunity to participate in Saturday Morning Art Project where she was surrounded by and influenced by many fine artists such as world-renowned artist, Rob Glover. She primarily preferred drawing and gradually began to love creating with a variety of mediums such as painting, ink, modeling paste, mixed media, fluid art and photography. Her unique work is inspired by life, personal growth, and sometimes just the desire to accomplish a new challenge. She has participated in First Friday Art Trail, had a piece in the Broadway Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, does a variety of commissions, and often donates her work to help raise money for foundations like Parkinson’s, the American Cancer Society, and Alzheimer’s as way of giving back in honor of people that have influenced her life and her heart.

Kristian believes that we as people are the true art; people are shaped not only by events and experiences throughout their lives but by their responses to those things. Her desired mission is to combine “life” with skill and create work that impacts and inspires others so that regardless of one’s ability to purchase art, every viewer leaves with something-a new vision, a changed heart, or perhaps, a work of art. She strives to fill walls with her work and fill hearts with her message.