Hester’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and has received honorary grants from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities and from the Arts Council of Montgomery County, MD. She is represented in numerous private and corporate collections including the World Bank, Capital One, KPMG, Covington & Burling, the International Monetary Fund and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Hester’s commissioned works include a 1996 piece for the Ginetta Sagan Fund of Amnesty International and an 18-foot atrium piece for the Chicago Kent College of Law. In addition, she has created large-scale sculptural aluminum paintings for Airbus headquarters, ASHA, Booz Allen Hamilton and National Endowment for the Arts Member Benefits. Francie Hester received her MFA in painting from the University of Maryland and a BFA in painting from the University of Michigan. She is represented by Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City.