Currently maintaining a fine art studio in Oakland, CA. Karen has taught printmaking in Bay Area educational programs such as Kala, the San Francisco Art Institute (where she received her MFA with the department Merit Fellowship), and the Richmond Art Center. She exhibits locally and on the east coast in Solo and Group exhibitions, and maintains an Artist Residency at Kala in Berkeley. Her work is in private collections and the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art through their acceptance of a group printmaking portfolio ?The Printable Principles of Dialogue? and The State University of New York at Albany Art Museum. Karen has worked as a fine art installer & gallery preparator for several galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, and was employed as the Studio Manager for electronic media artist, Jim Campbell.