Kristin Pluhacek lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska, where she seeks to see the newness and the unusual in her everyday environment. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited extensively in Midwestern fine arts galleries and museums, and her work is represented in numerous public and private collections. She is a frequent Artist-in-Residence and has traveled as part of the State Department Arts Envoy program to Asmara, Eritrea where she worked with local artists on large-scale, collaborative paintings. Kristin works primarily in pastels, drawing directly from her subjects whenever possible in an attempt to capture both the stillness and the motion of life. She is a BFA graduate of Creighton University, where she is an adjunct drawing instructor, and she also teaches drawing at Metropolitan Community College.