Kyra is a Cincinnati Native, Portland based artist. Kyra started her art practice as a mural apprentice at the age of 15. Witnessing first hand how access and opportunity levels the playing field for young people, Kyra has been inspired to engage with the youth through art. 

Youth empowerment has become such a large part of Kyra’s practice, it has steeped into the subject of her personal work.

You will find that Kyra’s body of work is largely figurative and the main subject matter being of children. Kyra likes to think of her work as a reminder that all children are our children, and to show up for them means we must show up for our inner child first. 

Since Kyra’s start as an apprentice, Kyra has been in the public art space for 16 years. Kyra now aspires to marry her love for public art and youth engagement by creating a youth public art program and helping her fellow artist get started in their mural making career.