Kara Schoeman, the creative director of Kara Artistics, is a Free State-based artist with a passion for the environment and sustainable living. After graduating from the University of Free State with a BA Fine Art Degree and a BA Honours Degree in Psychology, she went on to start her Master’s in Fine Art with a focus on the qualities of Quantum physics in Visual Culture.
During her studies, Schoeman was awarded the best Fine Art student of her year group for two consecutive years. She was also awarded the best overall Art History student in 2015.
Schoeman’s work has been exhibited at many prestigious locations, including the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery, Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Map Gallery, UJ Art Gallery, Young Blood Art Gallery, Gallery on Leviseur, ABSA Gallery, and at the Design Indaba.
She is a facilitator at the University of the Free State’s Psychology Department, and runs an Educational sculpture casting foundry where she teaches the youth of Clarens’ Township Kgubetswana how to cast sculptures out of scrap metal.
Schoeman worked at the University of the Free State as a Student Assistant to first and second year Fine Art Students from 2014 to 2017, and was a Gallery Assistant at the Johannes Stegmann Art Gallery. In addition, she served as a Lecture Assistant for Bed education students in their Art and Culture Modules in 2016 and 2017.
Kara Artistics is a collaboration between Kara Schoeman and her Father Stephan Schoeman, who is a Foundry artist in Bloemfontein. Her intricate and sophisticated designs are made from cast aluminum, all suitably themed to animals under threat of extinction.
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