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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
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Student Exhibition (Spring - Summer 2023)
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Thesis Exhibition (Fall 2023)
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Capping Exhibition (Spring 2024)
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah NY
Young Artists 2020
Education
Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2022-Present
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Bachelor of Science - undergraduate - Class of ‘24
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Major: Digital Media - Animation
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Minor: Art History
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2020-2022
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Major: Art Studio - Digital
Minor: Integrated Design, Engineering, Arts & Society - Digital and Graphic Design
Awards and Recognition
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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
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March 2021- Wesleyan University Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Seed Grant Finalist
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2021 - Rank of Fourth Degree blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do
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2020 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key Recipient for painting