Biography

Kristen Colebank is an award-winning representational painter from the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. She holds Signature status in the West Virginia Watercolor Society and has had work juried into regional exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic and Shenandoah Valley. She was named a 2024 Tamarack Foundation Creative Entrepreneur Fellow. Colebank also regularly teaches watercolor classes and workshops and has been a judge for watercolor and multi-media exhibitions.

2024 Tamarack Foundation for the Arts’ Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship feature

As part of the CEF programming Kristen was part of during 2024, videographer Braiden Maddox of Understory and a team of TFA staff members visited with her for an afternoon that summer.

This video was the result of their time together, and Kristen sincerely thanks Braiden and the the TFA team of Robby Moore, Mary Roy, and Domenica Queen for their time and care.