Kathleen Ariatti Banton received her BFA from Auburn University and her MFA from Boston University. Her work has been exhibited (inter)nationally at numerous museums and institutions , and she has also had solo shows at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans. Banton is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including a feature in the Studio Visit publication and fellowships at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois, the Hambidge Center in Georgia and Skidmore College in New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the City of New Orleans, and numerous private collection. Banton was commissioned to design and install a public art sculpture for the Jefferson Parish Courthouse just outside of New Orleans.

“Abstract art may feel foreign at first…but, if you can recall what it was like as a child, gazing at the sky clouds, imagining what the shapes could be…or staring into the calm rolling of the beach tide, looking harder and harder…then suddenly, you smile and it all becomes familiar.”