Kara Bender

Drawing

Kara Bender received her BFA in 2008 from the University of North  Carolina, Asheville, and her MFA in Visual Arts from Western Carolina  University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. Bender’s work has been shown in the United States and has been scheduled to show abroad.

Most recently,  Bender exhibited her work at the Artist for Artists Project Gallery as a Williams Prize Finalist in Simsbury, Connecticut (2014), and was included in the juried exhibition entitled “A Fine Line: Contemporary Drawing Exhibition” at the Claypool-Young Gallery in Morehead, Kentucky (2013),  and was featured in a solo exhibition in Chapel Hill (North Carolina)  Juried Exhibitions Series (2013). Her work focuses on issues concerning ethnography and social justice.