Kiela Upton-Artist

Kiela Smith-Upton is a biracial African-American and Sicilian American, professionally trained as a fine artist. She was reared in a family of architects and received her BFA from the Internationally esteemed School of the Art Institute of Chicago and also studied in Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa with Parson's school of Design (New York). Early in her career Kiela's love of people and collaboration thrust her into the collaborative mural arts, arts education and eventually consulting. She is a recognized expert with 20+ years experience transforming ordinary spaces into extraordinary showplaces with inspiring interior and exterior collaborative and commissioned mosaic murals.