Karen Kalkstein
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1999 – present
Mixed media artist and photographer.

1980 – 1999
Owner of Kaleidoscope Designs, a custom tile business designing, making and hand-glazing ceramic tiles.

Education:
•BA, Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Majored in art: painting and ceramics
•MA, New York University, NYC: art education, secondary school level
•Numerous classes and workshops – Including: Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT; Instituto Allende, San Miguel, Mexico; Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT; The New School, NYC; Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO; Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT; Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA and others.

Awards:
•Third Place Award, Spirit of Water, Stamford Art Association: Art at the Ferguson Library,   Stamford,  CT
•Honorable Mention, Biennial Footprint International Exhibit, Center for Contemporary   Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, Juror: Elisabeth (Lisa) Hodermarsky, Sutphin Family Senior Associate   Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at Yale University Art Gallery
•Second Place Award, Far Away Places, Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT
•Cash Award, Art Inspired by Poetry, Flynn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
•Cash Award, Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT
•Johnson & Johnson Purchase Prize: Hunterdon Museum of Art Show, Clinton, NJ
•Best in Show: First Annual Juried Exhibition, Village Gallery of Katonah, NY
•Best of Show: Viewpoints – Annual Juried Multimedia Exhibit, Northern Westchester Center for the   Arts, Mt. Kisco, NY
•Gift Certificate, 73rd Annual Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. Juried Show

My work also appears in:
•A Monotype Teaching video produced by Master Printer, Lisa Mackie
•The Johnson & Johnson Corporate Art Collection, NJ

Affiliations:
•The Crit Lab, graduate-level critical seminars for artists, Portchester, NY
Instagram: @thecritlab
https://www.thecritlab.com
•Artists Collective of Westport
www.artistscollectiveofwestport.org
•Katonah Museum, Artist Member
•Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
•Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Artist Guild Member
•Connecticut Women’s Caucus for Art
•Connecticut Women Artists
•Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
•Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT
•Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT

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