Lisa Haight

“I want to draw things and tell stories,” a seven-year-old Lisa Haight told her dad with certainty. That’s what she wanted to be when she grew up. Before her career as an artist began, Haight taught K-8 Art for more than a decade. On the first day of school in 2018, she arrived home and announced that this was her “last first day.”

Since then, Haight has created a whimsical, nostalgic, and sometimes provocative body of work. A creative conjurer, she uses art and storytelling to forge connections to the world around her. Believing a full story can be told in a single image, her vignettes aim to strike an emotion in the viewer.

When she’s not in her studio, Lisa can be found reading, crocheting, or on a river kayaking with her partner, Shiloh, and their two grown children. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.

Find more of her work at lisahaightstudio.com and on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok @lisahaightstudio.