Kristie Duncan was born and raised in Alabama just north of Birmingham in a town called Mt. Olive. She pursued fine art in college at the University of Montevallo in Alabama and received her bachelor’s degree in ceramics and painting in 2003. After graduating and a short year in Tucson Ariz., she, along with her husband and feline have chosen to call Savannah Georgia their home. While in Tucson she found her love for fabric. “I was not in a position to make art in the forms I was accustomed to and needed an outlet for my creativity. Inspired by some fabric I found at a thrift store and the desert I was living in, I started making cactus pictures from fabric.”Fabric paintings, she called them, are made with patterned fabric she finds at thrift shops and yard sales appliqued onto one another. Now working with imagery other than the cactus, her layered fabric brings extra whimsy to her quirky illustrations of long legged birds and other curious animals. Duncan is seeking her M.F.A. in fibers at the Savannah College of art and Design.