About

Kalleen Chilcote is an artist and educator located in Indiana. She is a feminist who finds unfading inspiration in the complexity, beauty and danger of the natural world. She is also a voracious  reader, an occasional writer, the mother of a toddler and a former Rollerderby badass.

In school, Kalleen focused on Printmaking and has taught Lithography at UT Austin. She received a BFA in studio art from

Currently, Kalleen teaches art to children and adults at non-profits in and around Indianapolis. Creatively, Kalleen’s focus shifts between endowing her papier-mâché creatures with mythic proportions to create poignant and humorous installations that depict anti-patriarchy fantasies, and rendering dark, seductive, and allegorical, waterscapes.

You can follow her on Instagram as @art_throbb

and check out her most recent exhibition catalog, “Drawing Perspectives” curated by Barbara Fontaine-White http://undergrad.umhb.edu/art/publications


Tulane University in 2002 and an MFA in studio art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009.