Kidist Paulos Asrat has an extensive background in the arts. Her professional activity combines the graphic and textile arts.

She has studied textile design at the Ontario College of Art and Design, from learning how to design original works to various printing methods. Her visual arts background also covers two years of drawing and painting under Toronto artist Michael Jenzen, and with botanical artist Leslie Staple.

She has studied film and photography at Ryerson University under two of Canada's most renowed artists, Bruce Elder, an experimental filmmaker, and Don Snyder, a photographer. Her films and photographs have been exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, Prague and Lille (France).

Her contribution to the arts community includes as Board of Director for Trinity Square Video, a non-profit video art organization.

Her other artistic achievements include ballet training as a young girl, winning a regional prize, and more recently, as a performing member in several dance groups, including a modern dance ensemble. She has studied the piano starting at the age of six, and has given many public performances.

Her textile designs incorporate many of her photographs, drawings and paintings, especially of wild flora and Canadian landscapes.

She has a broad theortical and historical knowledge of the arts. Her vision of trying to understand and build upon this art history and theory has enabled her to write many articles on art, society and culture, which have been published in Chronwatch.com, American Thinker and the Botanical Artists of Canada Newsletter.

Kidist is also the host of the blogs Camera Lucida and Our Changing Landscape.