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Kerri Ammirata (b. 1983, Glencove, NY) is a painter and printmaker who believes in the magic and poetry in art. Trained as a landscape painter, her work is strongly influenced by nature, specifically its patterns and rhythms, and by the spiritual intensity created in Australian Aboriginal artwork. Her current work deals with the idea of creating as a human and how it relates to the moment. She is interested in meditation and how a heightened sense of awareness of the body and mind can inform and change a piece of art.

Kerri recently received her MFA in Painting from Boston University in 2010, where she was interviewed as the “Six to See” in the Boston Globe, reviewed in Artnet magazine, and a finalist for the Kahn Award. She received her B.A. in Fine Arts and Family Science from Anderson University in 2006 and studied for two summers at the Chautauqua Institution residency program where she was awarded full-tuition scholarship.

Kerri is excited about living and creating this upcoming year at HUB-BUB and plans to implement workshops for landscape painting and relief printing. She is honored to be a part of the amazing community in Spartanburg and the family that is created at HUB-BUB. She expects to have lots of sweet tea, some laughs at barbeques, and being able to say the word “y’all.”

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