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Kara Anton
Kara’s Greek-Italian family is filled with professional and novice artists, creators, and inventors, dating back to her great great Italian grandfather Harry D. Donato who sculpted carvings on buildings across the U.S., including the relief statues on the outside of the Los Angeles Times Building in downtown L.A in 1948.
Kara took art and dance classes at local art centers and nearby colleges. She lived in Chicago, IL for 10 years, finding regular solace among great artists featured in the Art Institute of Chicago and painting therapeutically in her apartment. Inspired by abstract expressionists, action painting, the art of imperfection (wabi-sabi), and channeling child-like imagination, her artistic process purposefully involves all the senses… mind, music, and movement. She sometimes paints blindly, trusting her subconscious and intuition.
In addition to her creative endeavors, Kara has over ten years of digital marketing experience and currently runs a non-profit, Give Kids Art, which provides visual arts programming to underserved children in Los Angeles. Kara is a summa cum laude graduate from DePaul University in Chicago, IL, and holds a B.S. in Marketing with a minor in Anthropology. She credits her elective art history courses to one of her favorite aha moments — discovering an upside-down Rothko hanging in the MOCA!
