Loralyn Kumlin is an oil painter and maker. Born in Chicago, she grew up in various parts of the United States including Billings, Montana and Austin, Texas. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas in 1992. She then returned to Chicago to pursue art and architecture. Her paintings are rich in color, figurative, and expressive. In the past 3 years she has begun making companion boxes that incorporate her paintings in miniature and give a 3D expression of those paintings. On January 21, 2017 she went to Washington D.C. for the Women's March, and began her series of colorful portraits of Women Who Have Resisted. This series includes a self-portrait of her in her Pussy hat. This work led to more social justice works depicting current cultural tragedies as well as historical tragedies not to be forgotten. She is constantly trying to understand the psychological nature of human beings and bring that to her artwork. Her current work takes a deeper dive into these issues.