BIO:

Kara Iverson grew up in Edmond Oklahoma, graduating high school 1990.  During her junior year of high school, she auditioned and was selected from a pool of over 100 applicants to be one of the 15 students from the state of Oklahoma to attend and study Visual Arts: Drawing and Painting, at the prestigious Quartz Mountain Arts Institute Summer Academy.  Then age 17, she received the National Young Art’s Silver scholarship and chose California’s College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC) campuses located in Oakland and San Francisco,  to achieve her Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts (1994) which focused in the areas of Painting, Printing and Illustration.  As a young adult, Kara developed a love of adventuring the world, and immersing herself in the arts and cultures of where she travels.  During the year of 1997 she spent one month in Italy studying Renaissance Art History.  During 1998, she was invited to work as an "Artist in Residence" at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.  She has studied the ancient Thai cultural custom of loom weaving.  She has taught English and drawing in Thailand, as well as, volunteered teaching at the Angkor Wat Arts Orphanage, located in Siem Reap, Cambodia.   Kara achieved her California teaching credential (2008) and Master’s Degree of Secondary Education from Chapman University.  With the Coachella Valley Art Scene (CVAS), Kara Iverson was asked to lead a series of experimental, audience participation, printmaking studios at several large scale music events.  Under the directive of Golden Voice Productions, the CVAS art studios were active art installations which provided concert attendees free arts and crafts activities located in the campgrounds, at Indio Empire Polo grounds.  The Printmaking Art Installation was erected at the concerts of: Phish (2009), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (2010), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (2011). Joshua Tree Music Festival (2022) featured the first Recycled Plastic Chandelier and two of her artworks during the event. During 2009, Kara Iverson demonstrated the skill of monotype and linoleum block printmaking in the foyer of the Palm Springs Art Museum. Kara has been a Visual Arts teacher in Palms Springs, California from 2007 until present.  In 2020, Palm Springs Black History Committee named Kara Iverson “Artist of the Year” for collaboration and teaching “Paint and Sip Nights”.  The newest fun art event that she has been up to is the “You Art Events” at Casa De Kara. This is a designated night where anyone who wants to learn how to paint can come out and have a fun experience creating their own art under the guidance of master artist, Kara Iverson.