Cara Levine is an artist based in Oakland, CA. She is an instructor at Creative Growth Art Center and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Sculpture at California College of the Arts (CCA). She received her MFA from CCA and her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Cara has participated in residencies, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and forthcoming, Anderson Ranch. Her work has been shown such venues as The Wattis Institute for Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and The Manresa Gallery in San Francisco, and has work in the Stanford Hospital permanent collection. Cara is originally from Los Angeles. She has a twin brother. And she lives with her dog, and often collaborator, Pigeon.
Kate O’Connor is an Emmy nominated art director, illustrator and painter living in Los Angeles. She holds fine art and communication design degrees from The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. Kate has received numerous awards including a One Show Pencil, a D&AD award and a Cannes Lion. Her illustration clients include The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Oprah Magazine and Print Magazine. She has also art directed and illustrated album covers for Ninja Tune and Warner Records. Over the last few years Kate has participated in artist residencies including Struts Gallery in Sackville, New Brunswick, the Vermont Studio Centre in Johnson and the Institute for Studio Studies in Auvillar, France with Yale University. She has shown her work in Europe, the US and Canada including Katherine Mulherin Art Projects in Toronto. Her ASS series (a collaboration with artist Gareth Long) was purchased by Michael Stipe in 2013 for his personal collection. Kate is also left-handed and Canadian.
