Kari Kant Art was officially established in Washington, D.C. in 2015 by artist Kari Kant. She began studying communication arts in 2000, produced pieces for friends, family and charity for many years and eventually started creating a communications arts practice.
Biography of Kari A. Kant
In 2018 Kari began working for a holistic skincare company and soon thereafter 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 to traditional yoga, Ayurveda, alternative health, biodynamics, several religions and spiritual practices and traveling around Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the United States with the founder and CEO of Skincando. She also served as a co-pilot for the ashram's community supported agriculture (CSA) driving an old postal truck to and from farms in Pennsylvania. At the end of 2020 Kari moved out of the ashram and went home to Alabama for a short stay but a few months later she accepted a job working as an assistant with the Law Office of Lynn F. McConnell. In mid-2023 she began working for Fairhope Animal Clinic as a receptionist. Kari spends her free time continuing to develop a deeper understanding of different spiritual practices, law and medicine as part of her communication arts practice.
From 2013 until 2017 Kari worked for Goldman Sachs as an assistant in the Office of Government Affairs in Washington. In 2015 she was commissioned by the White House Historical Association to do a painting of the White House. And in January of 2017 she was asked to serve as an assistant in the Executive Office of the President. After that she semi-retired and became a full-time artist for several months.
Between 2011 and 2013 Kari assisted former U.S. Congressman Jim Nussle when he was President & COO at Growth Energy and former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh when he was at Bancroft PLLC.
From 2006 to 2011 Kari was Ed Rogers' assistant when he was Chairman of BGR Group.
In August of 2004 Kari moved to Virginia and began working as a staff assistant in the U.S. Senate in the front office of then Senator Jeff Sessions where she greeted guests and gave tours of the U.S. Capitol. She became a member of the Washington Area Women's Soccer League in 2005.
Kari 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 and Timbes & Yeager Advertising, Inc. During the summers of 2000 and 2004 she assisted her father when he successfully ran for Mayor of Fairhope, Alabama.
Kari graduated from Fairhope High School in 2000. She was a member of several clubs including the National Honor Society and the Key Club and a four sport varsity athlete becoming co-captain and an Alabama all-state player of the year for soccer her senior year.
Before attending public school in Fairhope Kari received a scholarship to attend Christ the King Catholic School in Daphne, Alabama. She was elected class president at the age of 10.
Kari was born in Mobile on November 4, 1981 and grew up in Fairhope spending most of her time in the quiet places near her home and along the Gulf Coast.
In 2018 Kari began working for a holistic skincare company and soon thereafter 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 to traditional yoga, Ayurveda, alternative health, biodynamics, several religions and spiritual practices and traveling around Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in the United States with the founder and CEO of Skincando. She also served as a co-pilot for the ashram's community supported agriculture (CSA) driving an old postal truck to and from farms in Pennsylvania. At the end of 2020 Kari moved out of the ashram and went home to Alabama for a short stay but a few months later she accepted a job working as an assistant with the Law Office of Lynn F. McConnell. In mid-2023 she began working for Fairhope Animal Clinic as a receptionist. Kari spends her free time continuing to develop a deeper understanding of different spiritual practices, law and medicine as part of her communication arts practice.
From 2013 until 2017 Kari worked for Goldman Sachs as an assistant in the Office of Government Affairs in Washington. In 2015 she was commissioned by the White House Historical Association to do a painting of the White House. And in January of 2017 she was asked to serve as an assistant in the Executive Office of the President. After that she semi-retired and became a full-time artist for several months.
Between 2011 and 2013 Kari assisted former U.S. Congressman Jim Nussle when he was President & COO at Growth Energy and former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh when he was at Bancroft PLLC.
From 2006 to 2011 Kari was Ed Rogers' assistant when he was Chairman of BGR Group.
In August of 2004 Kari moved to Virginia and began working as a staff assistant in the U.S. Senate in the front office of then Senator Jeff Sessions where she greeted guests and gave tours of the U.S. Capitol. She became a member of the Washington Area Women's Soccer League in 2005.
Kari 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 and Timbes & Yeager Advertising, Inc. During the summers of 2000 and 2004 she assisted her father when he successfully ran for Mayor of Fairhope, Alabama.
Kari graduated from Fairhope High School in 2000. She was a member of several clubs including the National Honor Society and the Key Club and a four sport varsity athlete becoming co-captain and an Alabama all-state player of the year for soccer her senior year.
Before attending public school in Fairhope Kari received a scholarship to attend Christ the King Catholic School in Daphne, Alabama. She was elected class president at the age of 10.
Kari was born in Mobile on November 4, 1981 and grew up in Fairhope spending most of her time in the quiet places near her home and along the Gulf Coast.
Description: Kari Kant painted this piece, American Flag #7, for a solo art show and charity event in 2013. It has since been displayed at various spaces including the West Wing of the White House. The above picture was taken when it was being transported from a space off of Pennsylvania Avenue to a space on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. It is part of a series of American Flag paintings that Kari produced for friends, family and charity over a ten year period.
Description: This piece was produced in 2021 for a fourth generation family from Fairhope, Alabama.
The themes include preservation, sacredness, love and rebirth. Although Kari did not title the painting it is a depiction of how she would like to see Mobile Bay and the shores along Fairhope preserved as well as nurtured.
Description: This piece was produced for a former Capitol Hill colleague of Kari's. Kari painted this piece in 2019 while living in an ashram in Maryland. It is based on Constitution Gardens located in Washington, D.C. which Kari began to frequently visit in the evenings and on weekends between 2015 and 2017. It is a place that she is drawn to spiritually and it reminds her of her childhood hometown in Alabama. She titled it "The Peacekeeper"
Description: Lt. Dan Choi holds American Flag #9 by Kari Kant, circa 2015. Dan helped carry this piece from the apartment building where they both lived along Pennsylvania Avenue to an office space on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Description: A wall mural by Kari Kant in her studio apartment in Washington, D.C. in 2015
Kari painting in her studio apartment in Washington, D.C. circa 2014