Kristin's profile

Kristin Helberg makes her home and studio in the Rodgers Forge area of Towson.

Part of the artist in education program with the Maryland State Arts Council for 20 years, she has worked with schoolchildren to create 80 permanent murals in Maryland. Eight of those murals are located in Baltimore City Schools.

In 2001, Ms. Helberg was chosen to participate in the Fish Out of Water project in Baltimore. Her fish entitled Conefish, received the highest bid of $22,500 during the art auction at the Walters Art Gallery, which benefited art programs for Baltimore city children.

Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Children's Inn at NIH, Bethesda,MD, the National Medical Center in Washington, DC, the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

In May of 2011, the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution chose her portrait of Grandma Moses to become part of the permanent collection. In September of 2013, the University of Maryland Museum chose her painting, The Arabber,for their permanent museum collection. In the spring of 2014, the Reginald Lewis Museum in Baltimore, acquired her painting, The Safe House to become part of the permanent display honoring Harriet Tubman.

She has taught both child and adult classes for the Smithsonian Institution and for five years she was visiting artisan conducting a series of vinegar-graining demonstrations at the Tucker House in Colonial Williamsburg, VA. Her grained furniture has been featured in Country Living magazine and sold at ABC Home in New York City. Her smaller grained boxes are currently sold in the gift shop of the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC and at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society Museum.

Kristin's Curated Collection

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