Kendra Keefer is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and poet. She designs installations combining new and traditional media, that include video, painting, photography, and poetry. Through storytelling and autoethnography, her work interrogates how trauma informs patterns of behavior. Keefer has a BFA in Painting in Painting and Drawing and an MA in Art Museum Education from the University of North Texas, and a MFA in Media Art from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, and at a low-income public school in rural Texas.