Karissa InCreation Miller is a degreed working artist and art educator with 15+ years experience teaching children and adults in the field of visual arts. She has earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education at the University of West Georgia. She has also earned several certifications in child care development at the Childcare Education Institute. Karissa thrives on creating a safe space for her students to learn and self express varying in ages from P-12 grades and adults.

As an Atlanta, Georgia native, mother of two grown daughters, grandparent of two amazing grandchildren and pet parent to three fur babies-she is inspired daily by connections to family, self and nature and how those connections can change and educate us for deeper, more spiritual living. As a mother to a teen with special abilities & needs, Karissa has had 18 years adapting curriculum and applying empathy, patience and understanding both in and out of the classroom setting for her daughter and students.

Karissa loves to create using recycled & found materials for the purpose of renewal and sustainability.  Though skilled in painting, printmaking, wood works, metal works, drawing, mixed media, photgraphy and jewelry making, She is the most happy in  creating & teaching ceramics and sculpture at the child, teen & adult levels of learning.

Karissa keeps  her focus always on building new pathways to safe self-expression through experimental creative processes in a multimedia art. Her personal work is focused on trauma & healing, spiritual inclinations &  patterns as they relate to the living world. Karissa’s work is both reactionary and visionary in the response to the world around her and can often take a comedic path in her vast imagination of ideas.