Terri received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1996 and studied fresco painting at Veracruz University in 1997 under Maestro Melchor Peredo. She has done group and solo exhibitions in Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS; Rochester, NY, Lawrence, KS and Chicago, IL. She has a fresco in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Terri has participated in several projects with The Sketchbook Project in Brooklyn, including the traveling libraries that have shown in a variety of cities in the United States as well as Paris and London. Terri has been a member of the Kansas City Artists Coalition since 2007 and served on the board from 2016 to 2023. Terri had her first artist residency at Escape to Create in Seaside Florida in February 2025. She has studio space in the West Bottoms in Kansas City, MO.