KRISTIN WITBECK LEE
Ganä:gah:is, One Who Splashes Water is Kristin's Haudenosaunee name given by her great-grandmother. The Onödowa'ga (Seneca) bloodline is carried through her father, Luis R. Lee, enrolled full-blood. She is a Certified Tribal Seneca Artisan.
Water moves, playfully disrupting the ordinary, always returning to the great ocean where all things merge and renew. This is the teaching she lives and works with.
In her work the viewer may meet living essence again — color and forms that breathe, shift, awaken. Each artwork is the residue of her own transformation, inviting healing and creative flow into your space, whether you collect or create.
She's taken her artistic training seriously, with a BA in English & Studio Art, Connecticut College; an MFA in Creative Writing, Bennington College; Masters-equivalent in education, Center for Anthroposophy at Antioch; and ongoing advanced study in painting & drawing at Bridgeview School of Fine Arts, NYC, studying deeply in both the classical Russian tradition and the cutting edge of contemporary arts practice.
Her work has been published in Western Humanities Review and Columbia Journal of Arts & Literature; exhibited at the Houston Museum of Fine Art and at Ganondagan State Historic Site; and held in private collections worldwide. Her portraiture and award-winning Plein air work connects her personally with beloved people and places.
Kristin's artistic life is steeped in therapeutic listening, intuitive healing, and Anthroposophy with teachers across traditions. Life, motherhood, a career in creative direction and writing, founding an educational nonprofit, homeschooling her children are all threads woven into the sacred act of making.
Living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her husband, children, and dogs, she is developing Solacebrook, an emerging sanctuary where art, healing, and living nature meet.
Her work does not hang in stasis. Like water, it carries the energy of constant becoming into your space.
