Krista Wright

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Krista Wright is an artist and educator based in the Bay Area. 

Krista has always been passionate about art, and the way it connects us to ourselves and each other. With this passion for creation, as well as community and accessibility, she has worked with various organizations including; The San Francisco Art Institute Young Artists Program, The Aptos Middle School Beacon Initiative, Balboa High School After School Teen Arts Program, and The Kala Art Institute, to bring art to youth. 

She has taught and assisted classes in painting, drawing, and printmaking across the bay to kids of all ages for the past 5 years.

She has also led a weekly high-school day class the past 2 years called “Art and Activism” that has empowered students to use art to change their communities. In these classes teens have created documentaries and murals to change school bathroom policies and have raised money for houseless populations in the Excelsior neighborhood through selling student designed and screen printed t-shirts. 

Krista has experience with a variety of media most recently experimenting with performance and drag. Her work has centered on painting relatable everyday scenarios with fantastical characters as the main figures, re-imagining imaginary friends from the past and placing them in the present. 

In her printmaking work, she has created the lore for these creatures; through sculptural work, she brings them into the 3rd dimension; and in performance she gives these characters autonomy. 

Her work has been shown across California, in Seattle, Massachusetts, and even Japan.