Kara Skylling

Kara Skylling received her Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Fiber Art from Tyler School of Art Temple University in 2007. Working in drawing, painting, and fiber art, her work explores pattern and process found in our natural and built environments. Skylling, is employed at Carnegie Museum of Art as a Museum Educator and works with School Programs as well as The Art Connection, summer and holiday camps, and various after school programs. She is also a Teaching Artist at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, where she teaches adult classes in Fiber Arts. Since 2011, she has been the Director of The Brew House Associations Distillery Residency Program, a studio residency program that builds an educational bridge between obtaining a fine arts education and establishing a career as an independent artist. She is also part of a team of organizers who coordinate Handmade Arcade, Pittsburgh’s first and largest independent craft fair. Skylling moved to Pittsburgh in July 2007.