Turn Your Event
into a Visual Story
Bring your event to life with LIVE Graphic Storytelling – illustrations that capture the energy, ideas, and connections as they happen in real time.
With a background in Graphic Design and Innovation Strategy, I specialize in simplifying complex messages into clear, playful visuals that resonate long after the after ends.
Why It Works
Engages Audiences
Guests see their ideas and stories take form in real time
Captures the Moment
Visual notes of key themes,
quotes, and shared moments
Creates Keepsakes
From large scale visuals to
custom illustrations for guests
How It Works
I draw LIVE throughout your event – whether it's during keynote talks, panels, or shared storytelling moments – transforming spoken words into vivid illustrations. Interactive boards can also invite guests to add gratitude, insights, and reflections, creating a truly collaborative visual experience.
Meet Nikki Kurt
Nikki Kurt is a Graphic Storytelling illustrator who supports individuals and organizations to get their messages out to their audiences through illustration + videos.
She is an intuitive synthesizer who takes complex words, ideas, and relationships and visually maps them in real time to create a hierarchy of information for ultimate clarity and connection.
With 15+ years of professional experience, supporting and working across the globe alongside Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, startups, and entrepreneurs, Nikki uses her Professional Design Thinking, Graphic Design, Illustration, Mindfulness, and Live Drawing experience to bring your ideas to life.
Her work focuses on the integrity and clarity of the words and their messages – adding a human touch for you to be fully seen, heard, and understood.
Jet Blue
“[The artist] was a total pro. She was very quick to catch on to the run of show, and really just nailed it in a live setting in front of an audience!...We are very happy with the finished product."
Grandmother Kaariina Saarinan
Shamanic Indigenous Elder
"There are times when our communities require unique cocreative expressions to experience being heard, being acknowledged, being gotten! Nikki's abilities to offer these MIRRORS of unconditionality with such empathy serves to bring those communities together into a heartfelt coherence. Such is the nature of HEALING through differences."
Maxcess Health
"The storyboard worked wonders! It was such a great conversational piece––everyone agreed it drove our success at the event, so thank you for sticking with it and being so patient throughout the process."
See Graphic Storytelling In the News
Work Shown on CNN during 'Champions for Change' segment
Nikki Kurt live captured the heart opening share: 'Tools for Peace' during the Just Peace Youth Leaders Summit held in NYC. The powerful insights captured on the board were brought through the young poet, Mattie J.T. Stepaneck – an advocate for peace through his best-selling poetry. His mother, Mama Peace, continues advocating for his messages and carrying on his legacy to make Peace the News.
You can watch the segment: 'A young poet's call for peace continues to inspire' here. The live drawn 40 minute inspirational talk, can be seen in the background of multiple shots, grounding in the intention and inspiration for the multi-day summit.
#MakePeaceTheNews
Our First Children's Book!
Nikki Kurt Lives in a Yurt
The intention with this book is to inspire the future generations of children – to remind them of the simple things: enjoy nature, be kind to all beings, and remember the natural rhythms and cycles of life.
As life speeds up around us, especially with kiddos and the daily to do’s, it’s more important than EVER to remember how to slow down and appreciate the simple moments.
