Arts

PROVOKING THE IMAGINATION

KARA HAMMOND

From 1990-2004, Kara Hammond lived and worked as an artist in Brooklyn, NY, showing most notably with Joseph Rickards Gallery, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, White Columns, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The North Carolina Museum of Art and Momenta Art. She has had eight solo exhibitions since 1997 and has been included in a number of national and international exhibitions.

She has been a recipient of two PollockKrasner grants and has been awarded several residencies, including the World Views Program at the World Trade Center in 2001, The Ucross Foundation and The Santa Fe Art Institute in 2002 and the MacDowell Colony in 2004.

Ms. Hammond has lectured as a visiting artist/teacher in various institutions across the country, including the American University, Montana State University, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the Ringling School of Art + Design, and the Savannah College of Art + Design.

For three years, Ms. Hammond taught as an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, where she helped revive the drawing curriculum. She most recently taught as a guest lecturer in the studio art department at the American University in Washington, DC, in the fall of 2007.

A native of North Carolina, Ms. Hammond graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA from East Carolina University in 1985 and acquired her MFA at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1989. She is currently living in the Washington, DC area and is a Member of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA.