Meet Artist, Teacher and Poet Akiane, the Child Prodigy with an Amazing Heart
In this world there are some people who struggle to find their way from a very young age. Most of us fall into that category. Every once in a while, however, someone comes along who has blessed by God with a gift, a soul that seems to see and know things beyond their years. This is the story of Akiane Kramarik, a young woman with an amazing gift.
“I teach and they run away,” says young Akiane. “I listen and they come. My strength is my silence.”
For a child of nine to understand the perfection to be found in silence is almost unheard of, but young Akiane has never been ordinary. Born July 9, 1994 in Mount Morris, Illinois to her Lithuanian mother and American father, at the age of three Akiane had a spiritual awakening that not only opened her eyes to the Lord but brought her family to God as well. Her mother was an Atheist, her father a former Catholic. Neither had exposed Akiane to the Bible, but at a young age she took her parents by surprise when she began to speak about the Lord.
“It all began to happen when she started to share her dreams and visions,” says her mother, Forelli Kramarik. “It wasn’t just art that was happening. Simultaneous with art was a spiritual awakening.”
This was the year she began to draw, teaching herself the various intricacies of the artistic style she’s affectionately dubbed “Akianism.” Her artistic gifts would later spread into painting at the tender age of six.