Kara Smith
Kara Smith is an artist and art educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her paintings, prints and mixed-media work are driven by an interest in memory, history, visual storytelling and modes of communication, with a graphic sensibility and love of found materials and relics.
She received a MA in Art Education from Brooklyn College, and a BFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. She has been awarded residencies from Berkshire Art Center, MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists, Kasini House/Kolaj Institute, The Vermont Studio Center, Brooklyn Art Space, and Drop, Forge and Tool.
Kara is a Program Director and visual arts faculty at Community Access to the Arts (CATA), which nurtures and celebrates the creativity of people with disabilities through the arts.