Margaret Kepner

Margaret Kepner is an artist living in Washington, DC. As a child, she loved to make art. Her drawings often involved intricate geometric patterns, and her family predicted she would grow up to design wallpaper. Kepner attended Vassar College where she majored in Mathematics and minored in Physics and Art History. Throughout her college years, she took studio art, primarily painting. For her senior project, she created a series of works inspired by mathematics.

Following college, Kepner did research in Radio Astronomy in The Netherlands. She returned to the USA to pursue a Master’s Degree in Mathematics at NYU, and spent several years teaching high school math and physics. She worked as a programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY before moving to Washington, DC. There she began a thirty-year career in Information Systems at the International Monetary Fund.

Since her retirement, Kepner has been able to concentrate on her longtime interest in finding connections between mathematics and art. She has participated in over 50 juried shows and has shown her prints in two solo exhibits. Her work was included in Mathematics + Art, A Cultural History by Lynn Gamwell.