Multidisciplinary Artist

Ingrid Marie Harbour is a professional artist with over twenty years of experience creating, showing, and selling her artwork. Classically trained in drawing and painting in Seattle, Washington, she obtained her degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the University of Washington's School of Art (04). 

As a contemporary artist, Ingrid Marie uses acrylics, oils, watercolor, photography, and printmaking to render and express emotional observations of nature. She is captivated by the use of multiple mediums to create art that engages the senses and evokes an understanding of time, place, and feeling. 

Ingrid Marie is inspired by the classical masters of drawing and painting and captivated by tribal art, modern and post-modern art, and magical realism. She is a lifelong learner who appreciates education and values sharing knowledge with others. 

Ingrid Marie is a Member and Teaching Artist at Frontline Arts, a non-profit center for printmaking and papermaking in Branchburg, NJ. There, she enjoys building community through socially conscious art practice and collaboration. 

As a Somerset County, New Jersey, resident, Ingrid Marie is participating in the county’s Cultural & Heritage Commission project, entitled Open Air / Open Space, where plein-air artists create art at local parks to exhibit starting in late 2025.

The artist enjoys camping, swimming, baking, crafting and sewing, traveling, and spending time with her family and friends.

Experience in arts education

While living in NYC for 11 years, Ingrid Marie (a.k.a. Ingrid M. Alvarez) taught arts and dance classes at Spoke the Hub and worked directly with several public and private schools in Brooklyn from 2009 to 2012. 

Ingrid Marie then relocated to Staten Island, where she served as a Museum Educator at the Staten Island Museum. There, she taught science, history, and art lessons to hundreds of school-aged children yearly. The artist also installed murals at three public schools, developed a curriculum for NYC’s Parents As Arts Partners at the Richard H. Hungerford School, and led NYC Arts SU CASA programming at the Arrochar Friendship Club Senior Center.

Ingrid Marie also installed large indoor murals at a private charter school with socially conscious programming at IlluminArt Productions in Staten Island. 

For several years, Ingrid Marie was a Teaching Artist with the Art Lab of Snug Harbor Cultural Center, where she deepened her love of plein-air painting and strengthened her figure drawing practice. 

The past 15 years and beyond

Ingrid Marie first volunteered as a children’s reading tutor at a public library in Bremerton, WA, in the late 1990s, and then ten years later with the Artist Access Program at North Brooklyn Hospital in NYC. These experiences enabled her to realize her aptitude for teaching and embrace her interest in arts education in the late 2000s.

In 2012, she followed her heart (G. Harbour) and moved to Staten Island. They married at the Alice Austen House Museum and later started a family.

By 2015, the artist had started billing herself as “Art By Ingrid” at Brooklyn and Staten Island vendor fairs, selling art and offering face painting services. 

Since 2018, Ingrid Marie Harbour has continued exhibiting her artwork and engaging with local communities as a teaching artist in New Jersey, USA.

Ingrid Marie strives to grow her artistic practice locally while expanding her reach through multidisciplinary arts-making.

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