About the Artist

Currently enrolled in the Arts Administration graduate program at Teacher’s College at Columbia University, Kaylie Maines is a multimedia artist and educator. She maintains a nomadic studio practice between central Pennsylvania and New York city, expanding her work into sculpture, poetry, and illustration.

In her graduate research, Kaylie is focused on the development of mobile arts organizations and multi-community service in extended rural populations. She believes that a mobile service model can recentralize the arts and provide sustainable, inclusive, and flexible programming to underserved populations, regardless of geographic location.

Kaylie completed her undergraduate education at the Pennsylvania State University, where she earned three bachelor’s degrees: a BA in Sculpture, a BS in Art Education, and a BA in English. Her poetry collection, Make it Do or Do Without; A Collection of Poems and Folk Memoirs, explores disputed personal history and coming-of-age in modern Appalachia: the collection was awarded an Erickson Discovery Grant.