featured artists

Kiera Schlansky MD

Kiera Schlansky was born in Half Moon Bay and grew up in Northern California. In the early 90s, her favorite TV show was the Joy of Painting on PBS. Her only formal painting training to-date occurred in a Bob Ross workshop, where she was the youngest student by approximately 50 years - she was 5 and everyone else was there on a retirement center outing. She took an approximately 15 year hiatus from painting once she started high school, satisfying the creative urge by drawing in class, illuminating study guides, color-coding everything, and exhibiting greater than average enthusiasm for theme parties and Halloween costumes. 

She studied biology in San Diego, California, and then attended medical school in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduation, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee where she completed her medical residency and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with special interests in creative therapies, neurodiversity, and complex family dynamics. She now lives on a farm outside of Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and a small menagerie of animals, and works as a psychiatrist in private practice.

She splits time practicing medicine and making art, with the motto that there is no limit to what you can accomplish when you’re supposed to be doing something else. She approaches her psychiatric practice with the goal to appreciate each human being as they are without agenda, and to simultaneously provide an accurate diagnostic assessment and make recommendations for the most appropriate pharmacologic interventions, in a manner that will resonate with each individual. She approaches her art-making practice as a break from the above.