Kristen Mimms Scavnicky is an artist, designer, and educator whose work examines how space carries memory, identity, and emotional life. Through drawing, spatial installation, and research-based design, her practice uses abstraction and narrative to surface the social and cultural forces embedded in the built environment, with particular attention to resistance, resilience, and collective care.
Kristen holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of Kentucky. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University, where her teaching frames design as a culturally responsive and ethically engaged practice.