Born on December 5, 1941, Chestee Harrington grew in New Iberia, Louisiana. Interested in painting and drawing early on in life, she was showing her paintings with a group of local artists, L'Acadian Art Guild, at age ten.

At 21, she completed a correspondence course with the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut and began teaching art at a local community center starting in her mid 20s.

Primarily self-taught in the beginning, she did study with Sidney Simon, Marshall Glasier and Michael Pellettieri at the Art Students League of New York; Tommy Hicks at the Shidni Foundry in Tesuque, New Mexico; Richard McDaniel at the Woodstock School of Art in Woodstock, New York, and David Hardy of Oakland, California.

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