[1] In Toronto she studied with Mary Ella Dignam and Laura Muntz Lyall.
[2] She studied at The New York Art Students League (NYASL) for about two years from 1901.
[1] She also spent two years at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.
During the summers she sketched in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
[2] Around 1913 Kerr shared a studio in Toronto with Dorothy Stevens.