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Contact & About

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About Me

Kara Hodge is a digital and multidisciplinary artist and animator from New York. She attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, later moving to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY to achieve a BS in Digital Media with a concentration in Animation and a Minor in Art History.
Her art tends to focus on memory, vulnerability, and personal experience. However, she maintains a flexible and open-minded approach to animation and the themes she addresses. Her multimedia body of work contains drawings, paintings, and digital art such as 2D animations and 3D animations, models, and designs. 
In the summer of 2023, she worked on the graphic design and social media teams at American Weekend Entertainment: Music Daily creating music and performance-related content. In addition, she worked with Lil’ Iguana Children’s Safety Foundation to create visual teaching materials including social media posts, an animated music video, lip-synced animations, and GIFs for the Lil’ Iguana character. 
Along with receiving a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key for her painting Sunbathing in 2020, her work has been exhibited in the Steel Plant Gallery at Marist College for the Spring/Summer 2023 Student Exhibition, the Fall 2023 Thesis Exhibition, and the Spring 2024 Capping Exhibition. Outside of these endeavors, she is a martial artist who practices Tae Kwon Do and she recently added whittling to her list of creative hobbies.

Professional Experience

Lil’ Iguana Children’s Safety Foundation

Graphic Design / Animation | June 2023 – August 2023

American Weekend Entertainment; Music Daily

Graphic Design / Social Media | June 2023 - September 2023

Marist College Artist Worker

SPAWN : Steel Plant Artist Workers of the Night | September 2023 - Present

Westchester Tae Kwon Do Academy

Instructor - kyo sahm nim | 2014- Present

Convent of the Sacred Heart Greenwich Young Alumni Council Member

Volunteer | 2020- Present

B4 creations

Co-founder of online marketplace to benefit cancer research | Nov 2020 - May 2022

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY

  • Student Exhibition (Spring - Summer 2023)

  • Thesis Exhibition (Fall 2023)

  • Capping Exhibition (Spring 2024)

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY

Young Artists 2020

Education

Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2022-Present

  • Bachelor of Science - undergraduate - Class of ‘24

  • Major: Digital Media - Animation

  • Minor: Art History

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

2020-2022

  • Major: Art Studio - Digital
    Minor: Integrated Design, Engineering, Arts & Society - Digital and Graphic Design

Awards and Recognition

  • 2024 Marist College School of Communication and the Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in
    Digital Art

  • Nov 2021- Wesleyan University Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Micro Grant Recipient

  • March 2021- Wesleyan University Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Seed Grant Finalist

  • 2021 - Rank of Fourth Degree blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do

  • 2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key Recipient for painting

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