Kadra Kramer, an Elkins
native and graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, studied painting and
monotype under Carol Pelletier. Along with creating watercolor and oil
paintings, monotypes, and intaglio prints, Kadra has been teaching various art
workshops and classes in Randolph and Upshur Counties for the past five years.
She currently instructs at the RCCAC as well as The Mountain Institute’s Outdoor
Education Program for Randolph County elementary students.
Specializing in creating oil monotypes, Kadra was one of
the few recipients of the Mollohan Foundation’s Mary Olive Eddy Jones
Scholarship for excellence in art and has exhibited at the Mollohan Innovation
Center in Fairmont, WV. Kadra is a member of the Seneca Trail Art Guild and
regularly contributes to the ArtsBank program. She recently opened The Blue
Door Studio in downtown Elkins and displays her work at Artists at Work.