hi, I'm Bekah

Bekah Pollard is an Indianapolis based visual artist, writer, and educator. Bekah graduated from Butler University in 2016 with high honors in Art + Design with minors in creative writing and gender, women, and sexuality studies. Bekah is an artist and educator, working as a teaching artist at the Indianapolis Art Center, teaching youth and teen classes, camps, and painting classes for adults. She is also an Adjunct Faculty for the Department of Art at Butler University.

She was the Visual Arts Instructor at World Changers School of the Arts for the 2017 school year.  She was a 2016 Arts Journalism Fellow with the IndyStar and Arts Council of Indianapolis, and has also been a contributing editor for theLala.com.

Bekah’s primarily two dimensional abstract artwork explores pattern, texture, and color. Practicing intuitive painting, Bekah plans each piece minimally and lets her materials guide her through decisions as she works.

Bekah is originally from Peoria, Illinois, enjoys yoga, gardening, and spending time with her adorable cat.

She is the 2022 Skip McKinney Faculty award winner at the Indianapolis Art Center.

Bekah can be contacted via this site or at bekah.pollard@gmail.com