Becca Kallem received her MFA in painting from the University of New Hampshire, with a BA in Art and Spanish from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. She held a one-year Fulbright fellowship in Madrid, Spain, and has taught painting and drawing at the George Washington University, the Arlington Arts Center, and for Arlington County, Virginia community center programs. Most recently her work has been exhibited in Washington, DC at Artisphere, the Washington Project for the Arts, the DC LGBT Center, and The Fridge. She has also shown her work at Washington Lee University, Boston University, and at the Bowery Gallery in New York.