Kari Kant Art was officially established in 2015 by artist Kari Kant. She began studying communication arts in 2000 and eventually started creating a communications practice.
Kari Kant, December 25, 2025
About the Artist:
In January of 2018 Kari Kant began working with a holistic skincare company and a few months later found a small room for rent in the basement of The Shanti Yoga Ashram in Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Maryland. What started out as doing sales and marketing at a nearby apothecary and living next to a yoga studio turned into an introduction and study of various spiritual practices, traditional yoga, Ayurveda, alternative health, biodynamics and organic facials and traveling around Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the United States with the Founder and CEO of Skincando. She also volunteered as a co-pilot for a community supported agriculture (CSA) affiliated with the ashram driving an old postal truck to and from farms in Pennsylvania as well as for their feed the homeless program. Three years later Kant moved out of the basement and went home to Alabama for a short stay but ended up accepting a job working as an assistant with the Law Office of Lynn F. McConnell. She currently works as a receptionist at Fairhope Animal Clinic and continues to spend her free time developing a deeper understanding of different types of spiritual practices, law and medicine as part of creating a communication arts practice.
From May 2013 until 2017 Kant worked for Goldman Sachs as an assistant in the Office of Government Affairs in Washington. She was commissioned by the White House Historical Association to do a painting circa 2015 - 2016. Then, in January of 2017 she was asked by one of her bosses, Gary Cohn, to serve as his assistant in the White House in the Executive Office of the President in the National Economic Council. But soon thereafter she resigned and became a full-time artist with her large painting, American Flag #7, displayed on the second floor of the West Wing in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative Intergovernmental Affairs, Rick Dearborn, whom she worked for when they worked for then Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
From May 2012 to May 2013 Kant was an assistant to former U.S. Congressman Jim Nussle when he was President & COO at Growth Energy after previously assisting former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh circa 2011 to 2012 when he was at Bancroft PLLC.
From January of 2006 until the end of 2010 Kant was Ed Rogers' assistant when he was Chairman of BGR Group and primarily worked with the international lobbying team. She began to teach herself to paint with oils, acrylics and mediums in 2008.
In August of 2004 Kant moved to Virginia and became a staff assistant in the U.S. Senate in the front office of then Senator Sessions where she greeted guests and gave tours of the U.S. Capitol until she was offered a job by Rogers. The most memorable visitors during Kant's time on the Hill were the Honorable John Roberts and the Honorable Samuel Alito as part of their confirmation processes to the U.S. Supreme Court and Donald J. Trump and Melania Knauss for a meet and greet. Kant also became a member of the Washington Area Women's Soccer League in 2005.
Kant holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts degree from Spring Hill College with an emphasis in Integrated Communication (public relations and advertising). She received academic and community service scholarships and was a member of the women's soccer team. Her internships included the U.S. House of Representatives in the Office of Congressman Jo Bonner in Washington and the Office of Congressman Sonny Callahan in Mobile, Alabama as well as Timbes & Yeager Advertising. In the summers of 2000 and 2004 she assisted her father when he successfully ran for Mayor of Fairhope, Alabama.
Kant graduated from Fairhope High School in 2000. She was a member of several clubs including the National Honor Society, the Key Club, the Spanish Club, the French Club and the Art Club and made the basketball, cross-country and track teams. She started as a freshman on the varsity soccer team and was selected as co-captain and all-state player-of-the-year her senior year.
Before attending public schools in Fairhope Kant received an academic scholarship to attend Christ the King, a small private school in Daphne, Alabama. She was elected class president at the age of 10.
Kant was born in Mobile on November 4, 1981, lived in Foley, Alabama for two years and grew up in Fairhope spending most of her time in the quiet places near her home and along the Gulf Coast.
In January of 2018 Kari Kant began working with a holistic skincare company and a few months later found a small room for rent in the basement of The Shanti Yoga Ashram in Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Maryland. What started out as doing sales and marketing at a nearby apothecary and living next to a yoga studio turned into an introduction and study of various spiritual practices, traditional yoga, Ayurveda, alternative health, biodynamics and organic facials and traveling around Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the United States with the Founder and CEO of Skincando. She also volunteered as a co-pilot for a community supported agriculture (CSA) affiliated with the ashram driving an old postal truck to and from farms in Pennsylvania as well as for their feed the homeless program. Three years later Kant moved out of the basement and went home to Alabama for a short stay but ended up accepting a job working as an assistant with the Law Office of Lynn F. McConnell. She currently works as a receptionist at Fairhope Animal Clinic and continues to spend her free time developing a deeper understanding of different types of spiritual practices, law and medicine as part of creating a communication arts practice.
From May 2013 until 2017 Kant worked for Goldman Sachs as an assistant in the Office of Government Affairs in Washington. She was commissioned by the White House Historical Association to do a painting circa 2015 - 2016. Then, in January of 2017 she was asked by one of her bosses, Gary Cohn, to serve as his assistant in the White House in the Executive Office of the President in the National Economic Council. But soon thereafter she resigned and became a full-time artist with her large painting, American Flag #7, displayed on the second floor of the West Wing in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative Intergovernmental Affairs, Rick Dearborn, whom she worked for when they worked for then Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
From May 2012 to May 2013 Kant was an assistant to former U.S. Congressman Jim Nussle when he was President & COO at Growth Energy after previously assisting former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh circa 2011 to 2012 when he was at Bancroft PLLC.
From January of 2006 until the end of 2010 Kant was Ed Rogers' assistant when he was Chairman of BGR Group and primarily worked with the international lobbying team. She began to teach herself to paint with oils, acrylics and mediums in 2008.
In August of 2004 Kant moved to Virginia and became a staff assistant in the U.S. Senate in the front office of then Senator Sessions where she greeted guests and gave tours of the U.S. Capitol until she was offered a job by Rogers. The most memorable visitors during Kant's time on the Hill were the Honorable John Roberts and the Honorable Samuel Alito as part of their confirmation processes to the U.S. Supreme Court and Donald J. Trump and Melania Knauss for a meet and greet. Kant also became a member of the Washington Area Women's Soccer League in 2005.
Kant holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts degree from Spring Hill College with an emphasis in Integrated Communication (public relations and advertising). She received academic and community service scholarships and was a member of the women's soccer team. Her internships included the U.S. House of Representatives in the Office of Congressman Jo Bonner in Washington and the Office of Congressman Sonny Callahan in Mobile, Alabama as well as Timbes & Yeager Advertising. In the summers of 2000 and 2004 she assisted her father when he successfully ran for Mayor of Fairhope, Alabama.
Kant graduated from Fairhope High School in 2000. She was a member of several clubs including the National Honor Society, the Key Club, the Spanish Club, the French Club and the Art Club and made the basketball, cross-country and track teams. She started as a freshman on the varsity soccer team and was selected as co-captain and all-state player-of-the-year her senior year.
Before attending public schools in Fairhope Kant received an academic scholarship to attend Christ the King, a small private school in Daphne, Alabama. She was elected class president at the age of 10.
Kant was born in Mobile on November 4, 1981, lived in Foley, Alabama for two years and grew up in Fairhope spending most of her time in the quiet places near her home and along the Gulf Coast.
Description: Lt. Dan Choi holds American Flag #9 by Kari Kant, circa 2015 - 2016. He carried this piece for Kant from the apartment building where they lived on Pennsylvania Avenue to the office of a former U.S. Senate colleague from Alabama.
Kari Kant, working on the rooftop of her apartment building on Pennsylvania Avenue circa 2015.
Kari Kant on a rooftop terrace on Pennsylvania Avenue circa 2015.
Description: A wall mural by Kari Kant in her studio apartment in Washington circa 2015.
Lady Freedom #1, #2 and #3 (from right to left) works in progress circa 2015.
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Kari Kant painting in her apartment on Pennsylvania Avenue circa 2015.
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Description: Pictured here is Kari Kant and her sister, Krista Kant (now an MD), circa 1986 during a visit to Washington to see their cousin - the late Congressman Sonny Callahan of Mobile, Alabama - whom both worked for as part of their internships years later.