Kerri Shadid

Kerri Shadid is an Oklahoma City-based poet and visual artist. Her poetry and art are often absurd or whimsical and celebrate playfulness and curiosity. Kerri was the 2014-2015 Skirvin Paseo Artist in Resident (SPACE) at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in downtown OKC and has had solo and group shows at galleries in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman, and Lawton. She marbles papers to create adorable animal scenes, abstract art, and handmade books of poetry. She writes spontaneous, custom poems for visitors to her Poetry Stand, which she often performs around the metro and the region. Before returning to Oklahoma City, Kerri studied UN peacekeeping as a Fulbright student at McGill University in Montreal and received her Master’s in the Humanities and Social Thought from New York University.

Learn more about Kerri’s work at kerrishadid.com