Bri Hermanson was born 100 years to the day after the birth of Rockwell Kent.   She grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, where she began to experiment with scratchboard.   Since moving to Manhattan, she received her Master's in Illustration from FIT in 2007, where she developed a love for drippy, messy ink while continuing to separately explore scratchboard.   After graduate school, the inevitable merging of ink and scratchboard took place, combining the two facets of her illustrative sensibility as well as two markedly visceral mediums. She continues to explore both methods of working with scratchboard.

Bri continues to live and work in NYC, where she lives with her boyfriend Chad and a Siberian Forest Cat named Suka.

Clients include Pentagram, Xerox, and the American Bar Association.   Her work has also been featured on HGTV.