Multidisciplinary Artist

Ingrid Marie Harbour is a professional artist with over 20 years of experience making, showing, and selling her artwork. Classically trained in drawing and painting, she obtained her degree in Interdisciplinary Visual Art at the University of Washington's School of Art (‘04).

In 2015, the artist started billing herself “Art By Ingrid” at Brooklyn and Staten Island vendor fairs and is currently accepting commissions for fine art.

As a contemporary painter who uses acrylics, oils, watercolor, and printmaking, she is inspired by the Dutch Masters and the Cubist, impressionist, surrealist, and Fauvist movements. Imagining Monet in his garden, Ingrid became passionate about plein-air painting and capturing imagery from observing life.

Residing in beautiful Somerset County, New Jersey, Ingrid Marie is thrilled to participate in its upcoming Cultural & Heritage Commission project, entitled Open Air / Open Space, where plein-air artists will create art at local parks starting Fall 2024.

Ingrid Marie is a Member of Frontline Arts, a non-profit center for printmaking and paper-making in Branchburg, NJ, and is a per diem Teaching Artist for their classes and events.

Living in NYC for 11 years, Ingrid taught arts and dance classes at Spoke the Hub and worked directly with several public and private schools in Brooklyn from 2009 to 2012.

In 2012, she followed her heart (G.Harbour) and moved 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. She installed murals at three public schools, developed a curriculum for NYC’s Parents As Arts Partners at the Richard H. Hungerford School, and led SU CASA programming at the Arrochar Friendship Club Senior Center.

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

She also installed large indoor murals at a private charter school with IlluminArt Productions in Staten Island. 

Building community as an advocate for the arts, reading, science, and social change has been pivotal for Ingrid since she was a teenager. She first volunteered as a children’s reading tutor at a Bremerton, WA, public library and again later with the Artist Access Program in Brooklyn, NY, which solidified her love of working with children.

More recently, she has become a PTO Member and Class Parent volunteer with her child’s school district, where she coordinates with parents and teachers and visits the classroom with creative projects and games.

The artist enjoys swimming, camping, baking, crafting and sewing, studying movies and TV shows, and spending time with family and friends.