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Who is KarsenArt
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KarsenArt LLC became an official LLC in January 2026. But it's always been so much more than that. I started sharing my art via instagram in 2019. My first post included the words "I aspire to be an artist." which now, I look back and laugh at. I believe I was an artist long before then.
My first ever art lesson I taught I was around 8 or 9 years old and it was a clay class with my aunt as my first student. I went over my favorite miniatures to create and we worked on them together. I'll always be grateful for her willingness to listen to my artistic ideas. Following a couple years later, I hosted an art camp with my best friend. her family was in the process of adopting and we saw it as a way to help raise money to help and support. so, at the age of 11, I created my first layout and plan for my first ever art camp. my mother reached out to people with young children and I braved the moms at my church on Wednesday nights. raising over $200 that summer, the process was something I craved to do more of. Through my teen years, I was resistant on taking art classes because I have always been a firm believer in how there is no wrong way to do art. I was scared of criticism to my art styles. I gave up on my art class strike shortly after that and ended up being a big fan. this led me to be picked by teachers for the public school art shows. every year I would pick my favorite pieces with hopes of winning. never once did I win any award or any honorable mentions. I like to say this is the origin of one of my biggest core beliefs as an artist. that art is only s good as the artist, themselves, believes it is. because my best work and work I loved and was proud of wasn't seen as "good enough" to receive an award? in my peak years of high school, my parents pushed for me to start offering "pet portrait" commissions around the holidays. (maybe my parents do know everythin...) the amount of orders and love I received caught me off guard because maybe I was better than some art award? one particular commission was a sweet yellow lab with a brick background my mother had me do for a friend of hers. after seeing it opened at a party, a little boy told his mom he "wanted to learn how to draw like that?" I had never really taught anyone how to do art, I thought to myself. But I was willing to try. in the back sunroom of my parents house, I sat up a card table with a fresh set of colored pencils and a sketch book ready to teach. after a year of this one artist, I had more intrest pop up--I ended up teaching 3-4 artists in this little sunroom throughout my week. following this my mom mentioned the idea of offering an art camp in the backyard (in the mid summer sun...). after proudly modeling it after an art camp I went to as a young child, I hosted my first camp with about 12 artists. That summer launched my career of teaching art lessons! With lots of interest I started offering more and more art lesson times and it grew before I could catch up with it. around this time I moved out and into my first place with a few friends, one of which was also an artist so a little art studio was a must!
"Art Teacher" is such a broad term because what do you even teach? can you run out of things to teach? where do you even start? and what if its a style they aren't interested in? these questions followed me as I ran out of things to share and teach. Which brings me to how my lessons run today. in 2023, I became a certified Montessori Teacher. this completely changed my perspective on learning and I challenged myself with the idea that art class could be artist led. I think back on childhood and how every second of a Childs life they are expected to make the choices others make for you. you do what you're told, all day long. which is crazy to me because children's imaginations are far more superior than adults imaginations. so what if there was a space for those imaginations to have the freedom to be everything they can be? a place where a cardboard box or toy wrapper can be hot glued together to create a little room, and tiny hands can make tiny things, so a cardboard-plastic-tiny things bedroom made 100% by a confident artist. because you have the freedom to attempt anything you want to create. and through the obstacle of "well I don't know what to create" you find a child practicing the skills of problem solving. Dr Montessori full heartedly believed in stepping back and stepping back and stepping back because of the belif of a Childs ability to problem solve on their own. my art studio is a safe space to struggle, and fail, and break down because maybe today has been hard and I just want to play a board game or draw in my sketch book, maybe play with the fidgets. life is hard, art doesn't have to be.
Art is what the body can't comprehend. art is used to express problems words can't seem to solve. throughput history
Written and taught by Karsen Boyett.
Based in Amarillo, Texas
Instagram: @karsen_art Facebook: Karsen Boyett Email: karsenboyett@gmail.com