Kim Loper

Hi there! I’m Kim. I’m a Senior Designer and Art Director with roots in brand identity, environmental design, creative direction, and community-centered work.

I love messy projects with multiple perspectives – helping to streamline many visions into one neatly wrapped, beautifully designed package that everyone can be proud of. My background in public art and community-centered design has always shaped how I approach a project – thinking about how people move through and experience a space, not just how something looks on a screen. That perspective travels with me into every project, whether I’m designing a showroom environment, building out a conference experience, or developing a brand identity meant to live in the world beyond a logo file.

Currently, I serve as Senior Designer at Erickson Senior Living, where I art direct national lifestyle photoshoots, lead creative on mail and digital campaigns, and have just started designing 3D “living brochure” showrooms – immersive sales center environments built in collaboration with architects, developers, and interior designers. I also work as a freelance designer and creative director, with past clients and partners including Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Office Promotion & the Arts, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, DTLR, Maryland Center for History & Culture, Maryland WIC, NAACP, Nike, Sagamore Spirit, and Transportation Association of Maryland.

I’ve served as Board President of Bmore Empowered (2021-2024) and Education Director of AIGA Baltimore (2018-2020). I am a 2017 Open Society Institute (OSI) alum and a 2020 Young Cultural Innovator (YCI) Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum. I hold an MFA in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).

In my life outside of work, I’m a licensed therapeutic foster parent with Kennedy Krieger. In my free time you can find me cooking your favorite dish for a themed potluck, brewing small batches of dandelion wine in my kitchen, watching reality television for “research” and hanging out with my cat Denzel.