Kara Walker

Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. Her father, Larry Walker is an accomplished artist and professor. At a very young age, Kara decided she wanted to be an artist like her dad. .She did not experience racial prejudice until she moved to Georgia when she was 13 years old. Stone Mountain still held KuKlux Klan rallies. At her high school , she recalls being called a Nigger, and being told she looked like a monkey, and being accused of being a Yankee. Walker earned her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991, and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. At first, Kara did not want to focus on race in her art because she felt it would be too typical or obvious. Walker is best known for her panoramic friezes of cut-paper silhouettes, usually black figures against a white wall, which address the history of American slavery and racism through violent and unsettling imagery.^[(Wikipedia)