Artist Profile

My name is Kelly Daudert-Spatichia and I an artist developing and clarifying my unique voice. Throughout my childhood and young adulthood, drawing and painting has always been a practice I cycled back to. I always dreamed of being an artist. Despite my calling I decided to pursue a more concrete career path as a therapist. I graduated from West Chester University with a Bachelor Degree in Psychology and Minor in Studio Arts. I earned a Master of Educational Counseling from West Chester Graduate School in 2022. After completing the required education to be a therapist, I still heard a voice in my head calling me to be an artist.

I worked with children and families in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas as a school counselor for 4 years and it was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. This work pushed me to recognize systematic injustices and serve as an advocate for vulnerable populations. I see my artistic vision, and financial ability to create art as a privilege and something I shouldn’t take for granted.

My final push to step into my calling of being an artist was my journey to motherhood. In the last month of my first pregnancy I realized that the voice calling me to create art would not ever go away, until I just starting doing what it asked of me. I thought about the future of my baby, and how I want her/him to chase after their own dreams. I have heard of mothers talking about loosing themselves in motherhood, and I want to challenge that narrative. So far, motherhood has pushed me to whole heartedly chase my dreams in a way that I have never before. Maybe I will be loosing my old self, but that version of me wasn’t meant to last forever. With my art, I want to make myself, my husband and my baby proud and I will.