Kaisha Gerhardt
Missoula, MT
Exhibit Year: 2023-2024
About the Artist
Kaisha Gerhardt is a mixed media artist pursuing a degree in Media Arts focusing on game design along with a minor in business administration at the University of Montana. Kaisha explores a range of mediums to work as a conduit for expressing personal and external experiences that elicit abstract impacts, fostering self-reflection. In 2022, Kaisha worked as a graphic designer with the Milwaukee Road Historical Association to publish Taft: The Story of the St. Paul Pass Tunnel and America’s Wickedest City – Building the Hiawatha Trail. This year, Kaisha worked with the city of Missoula Public Art Committee for the Traffic Signal Box Project, where her design for the project is displayed on the traffic signal box in Missoula, MT. Kaisha is currently interning with the Non-Profit Missoula-based Artist-in-Residency program, Open AIR, alongside working as a 3D asset creator with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
Artist Statement
As an artist, I am fascinated by the power of visual art to communicate ideas and emotions in ways that words cannot. My work is driven by a desire to explore the complexities of the human experience, and to express the ineffable through color and form. I draw inspiration from the natural world, from the beauty and chaos of everyday life, and from the surrealism of art history. Through my art, I hope to create a space for contemplation, reflection, and connection, inviting the viewer to see the world in a new light and to engage with their own innermost thoughts and feelings.