Avi Kendrick is a queer trans multimedia artist and visual storyteller. Their work is driven by experimentation, and primarily focuses on themes of self, survival, and resilience.

Avi grew up in a small town in Vermont. Their career began in kindergarten when they started selling their drawings at their local Farmer’s Market. This became Luna Studios, and every weekend during the summer they sold their handmade greeting cards up through middle school. Avi has been telling stories ever since: leading them to participate in several ethnographic film-making trips including to Rwanda twice; writing, illustrating, and publishing a children’s book; and graduating from Ithaca College as a film, photography, and visual arts major and Anthropology minor in 2021.

They spend their day working as a floral designer, and do animation and video editing in their free time. In 2024 they moved with their partner and two cats from Boston, MA to St. Paul, MN. Their favorite mediums include oil paints, artistic photography, and pen and ink.

Awards and Honors

James B. Pendleton Grant Recipient, Spring 2021
Peggy R. Williams Award for Academic and Community Leadership, 2021
IC Oracle Society Inductee, 2018
IC Dean’s List, Fall 2017, Spring 2018