Bethany Panhorst was born in Germany into a military family. She grew up primarily in Savannah, Georgia. In 2019, she graduated from Georgia Southern University earning a BFA in Visual Art and a minor in business. In 2023, she earned an MFA in ceramics as well as a teaching certificate from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas Throughout her artistic training, she has developed a wide variety of artistic skills from drawing and painting to ceramics and film photography. She is currently living in Colorado Springs, Colorado teaching middle school and high school art. She continues to grow and develop her art practice while sharing knowledge and a love of beauty with her students.