Pulling interests from neurology and microorganisms, Blue’s work focuses on the fight or flight system and fear. She enjoys playing with concepts that are uncomfortable to her, such as trypophobia textures and human anatomy. She brings in scientific theory and research that influences her work. Using installation, videos, prints, and sounds, she is able to bring a visual form to the psychological emotion. She uses her background in music as well as sculpture to create stop motion animations. She also explores the human body in its physical form as well, and creates Bronze body casts with commentary on the woman’s body.

Natalie Blue was born and raised in Maryland Heights, Missouri, right outside of Saint Louis in 2000. She graduated from Kansas City Art Institute in 2022, majoring in sculpture with an entrepreneurship minor and Asian Studies Certificate. She currently resides in Billings, MT, serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the Yellowstone Art Museum.

She has been in one publication, Anthology, KCAI Foundations catalogue, edited and curated by Logan Hamilton Acton and Caleb Taylor (2018-2019). Blue’s work has been featured in many exhibitions, some more than once, including All District Art Show, Queeny Park Saint Louis, MO (2014-2018) where she was featured over four years; End of the Semester Show, Foundation Studios, KCAI, Kansas City, MO (2018-2019) where she was featured twice.

She has been featured in many online exhibitions: End of Semester Virtual Exhibition, Home With You, KCAI (2020); End of Semester Virtual Exhibition, Hybrid Hardiness, (2020); EMPOWER Virtual Exhibition, Maryville University (2021); End of Semester Virtual Exhibition, KCAI (2021); Art Pop, End of Semester Virtual Exhibition, KCAI (2021); Sound End of Semester Virtual Exhibition, KCAI (2021).

She was also featured in multiple in-person exhibitions: Near | Far, William Volker Building, KCAI, Kansas City, MO (2019); Bodies in Motion, Gallery 650 at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (2021); The Reckoning, William Volker Building, KCAI, Kansas City, MO (2021); Neurasthenia, William Volker Building, KCAI, Kansas City, MO (2021); She has a bronze piece on display at Oak Street Mansion, Kansas City, MO (2022); and is a part of the 27th Annual Undergraduate Exhibition, KCAC, Kansas City, MO (2022) and 2022 Annual BFA Exhibition, Tony Jones KCAI Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2022). Blue has also sold artwork, including 4 of her 8 Autonomic prints, (2019); and her Metal Sketch, (2019).