Kirsten Holt Beitler is an artist, teacher, florist, writer, and single mom of four boys, not necessarily in that order, depending on the day. Kirsten is a Southern Utah native who has been drawing and painting since childhood. She received a Bachelor’s in Illustration from SUU.
Kirsten has been teaching art to children and adults for 15 years, and until recently, owned and operated The Drawing Room Studio. She now makes hand painted art signs for Harmons Grocery and moonlights as a narrative realist who uses watercolor, oil, and mixed media to create introspective and vulnerable portrait and figurative work of people and animals which explore the wounds, beauties, and humor that make up life here on this earth. Kirsten is also exploring landscape, especially as it interacts with human impact with a specific interest in road trips and signs.
Kirsten has shown work in many galleries and been featured in several publications including The Sears Gallery, The Springville Museum of Art, St. George Art Museum, Anthony’s Fine Art and Antiques, Bountiful Davis Arts Center, The DiFiore Center, and Center Gallery, NYC. She has published art and writingin Elan Magazine, The Exponent II, and The Mormon Women’s Project. Her works are featured in private collections across the United States and Europe. Her visual work and written ramblings can be found on her website www.kirstenbeitler.com.
Guest appearances on podcasts....
Center Gallery, Painting Toilet Paper and the art of Kirsten Holt Beitler
Kirsten Beitler
thedrawingroomstudio@gmail.com
Education
1997 Bachelor of Illustration, Southern Utah University, Cedar City UT
1993 AS, Dixie College, St. George UT
Grants and Awards
2020 Jerry's Artarama 8th Annual Portrait Contest Wrapped Up In A False Sense Of Security
2020 Art For Uncertain Times grant winner for Wrapped Up In A False Sense Of Security, Center for Latter-Day Saints Art
2014 Zions Bank Healing Hands Art Grant, St. George, UT
Exhibitions
2024. About Face/How Do You Figure, Sears Art Gallery, St. George, UT
2024 Eccles Gallery, SLCC, President's Show, SLC, UT
2024 Springville Museum of Art, Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah Show, Springville, UT
2024 HerStory, Art Provides, St. George, UT
2024. Springville Museum of Art, 100th Annual Spring Salon, Springville, UT
2024 Zion Chalk and Earth Fest, Street Painting Festival, Springdale, UT
2024 Certain Women Invitational, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT
2023 Zion Chalk and Earth Fest, Street Painting Festival, Springville, UT
2023 HerStory, Art Provides, St. George, UT
2022 Day of the Dead, St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT
2022 WOW, Women Out West Professional Women Artists of Utah, Sears Art Museum, St. George, UT
2022 All Shapes And Sizes, JKR Gallery, Provo, UT
2022 Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
2022 Sears Invitational, Sears Art Museum, St. George, UT.
2021 Siloed: Art For Uncertain Times, Center Gallery, NYC, NY
2021 Four women show, Red Dirt Girls, Peace'd Together, Sears Gallery, DSU, St. George, Utah
2021 Certain Women Invitational, Anthony's Fine Arts and Antiques, SLC, UT
2020 Group Show, Rogue: Utah Women's Voices Invitational, BDAC, Bountiful, UT
2019 Group Show, Certain Women Invitational, Anthony’s Fine Arts and Antiques, SLC, UT
2019 Halloween Show, First Place,St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT
2019 Solo Show, Couch To Canvas, DiFiore Center, St. George, UT.
2018 Group Show, 31st Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
2018 Group show, Annual Spring Salon, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT
2015 Group show, Water Line: Inspiration for Change, Studio C Gallery, Santa Fe Art Colony, CA
2015 Group show, 12 X 12, Sears Art Museum, Dixie State University, St. George, UT
2014 Solo show, Beauty in the Eye, DiFiore Center, St. George, UT and Healing Hands Gallery,
Kanab, UT
Boards and Organizations
2011-2014 Visual Arts Association of Southern Utah Board Member/Social Outreach
2014-2015 Arts To Zion/SUAG Core Team Member
Bibliography
2024 A Beehive State of Mind: Art, Environment, and Identity at SLCC
By Geoff Wichert on October 31, 2024
2024 Exponent II, Spring 2024, Vol. 43, No. 4
2023 SUU To Illustrator
2023 Spotlight on Harmons Santa Clara Store Artist
2022 Artemis Journal 2022
2022 Certain Women, Reflections On A Heavenly Mother
2021 St. George News, Sept. 28, 2021, Red Dirt Girls Put Up First Group Art Show
2020 Exponent II, Winter 2020 Vol. 39 No.3
2015 The Spectrum and Daily News, Artist Beitler Persevered Through Serious Vision Problems,
2015 The Perfect Space To Create Art, Spectrum New, Jan. 30, 2015
2015 Exponent II, Spring 2015 Vol. 34 No. 4, 4-7
2013 Elan Magazine, Fall Issue, A Feather in Her Cap, Gina Jrel, 40-41