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Kara Walker Tomé has vast experience in the visual arts. Currently she is an independent curator and arts writer (and now a Media Director!) but also has experience in making and exhibiting art, teaching art, arts programming, fundraising, grant writing, marketing, PR, event management, and more. This broad training (including an MFA from CalArts) and a DIY personality, led to her forming ArtSite Projects in 2001 to create, curate, produce and publicize innovative art exhibitions. Kara spent the last decade living in Palm Beach County, Florida where she created one-night, site-specific, multi-media installation exhibitions and performances in settings such as a boutique hotel, a self-storage unit facility, a Laundromat and empty residential houses. As the only alternative exhibitions occurring in the area, they became renowned. Her most popular Showtel exhibition ran annually for eight years, had a 1000% percent increase in attendance (from 200 the first year to 2,000) and substantial local press coverage. She is currently strategizing about creating similar art events in the Los Angeles area. Check out her web site at for more info: artsiteprojects.org
Kara is a also a free-lance writer for The Art Economist magazine, a subscriber-based publication for which she writes Artists to Watch profiles. Past positions in two states include: Director of Education and Public Programs, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, FL; Director of Program Development, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL; Youth Program Director, Friends of the Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA; Marketing and PR Manager, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Program Manager, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, CA. Her accomplishments in FL earned her a MUSE nomination from the Palm Beach Cultural Council and a Mastermind Award from New Times Magazine.