KELLY MICCA (b. 1998) paints portraits, self-portraits, and landscapes, and she also makes sculpture. This openness to creativity in all formats surely stems in part from her upbringing in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she recalls pursuing “any excuse to turn a school assignment into art.” She inherited that enthusiasm from her mother, who created her own greeting cards, and soon the daughter was taking art to a new level. A middle-school classmate “challenged me to draw a favorite rock musician,” Micca says. “It took me six months but came out so well I decided I should do this full-time.” Ultimately, that inspirational mother enrolled her in a series of two-week workshops in Rome: “I tried painting landscape for the first time in the Roman Forum. After that,” she laughs, “it’s hard to…
