With a family background in the arts and over forty years of interdisciplinary training in music, performance, and fine art, West's beginnings were notable. At the age of five, she sang for First Lady Bess Wallace Truman. She attended Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, a specialized high school where she completed college-level studio painting and performance courses. Winning full scholarships to programs at The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Kansas City Art Institute, and Southwest Missouri State University, West also became one of the youngest students to attend a Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts program in London. She moved to New York City with a high level of creative training. She chose to study liberal arts, attending The New School for Social Research and Hunter College before pursuing her career as a multidisciplinary artist and entrepreneur working in theatre, film, and costume design. She is a recording artist, lyricist and has released an album while also maintaining a painting practice. In 2017 she was hand-selected for an ongoing studio residency at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx, where she continues to practice today. West has exhibited in New York City,  Philadelphia,  Miami during Art Basel 2018 and featured at MoMA PopRally x Bronx 2019.