Kim Elliott has won awards in national and regional art exhibitions and two artist-in-residence fellowships from the National Park Service. The competitions she enters tend to be juried by museum directors and curators of note, such as the Director of the National Folk Art Museum, the Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Art, and the Director of the Butler Institute of American Art, all of whom honored her with awards. Her paintings can be found in private collections and the collections of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Her work’s content often includes spiritual and magical elements, wonder for the natural world and occasionally topical themes such as environmental and social issues. Kim has been represented by commercial galleries in the Columbus, Ohio, area and in Blacksburg, Virginia.