Kara Springer
{{Infobox artist
| name = Kara Springer
| image =
| caption = Kara Springer
| birth_place = Barbados
| training = Hon.B.Sc. in Life Sciences from the University of Toronto, B.Des. in Industrial Design from the Ontario College of Art & Design, and a MEDes in New Media and Contemporary Technology from ENSCI Les Ateliers in Paris.
| website = {{URL|www.karaspringer.ca}}
}}
Kara Springer is a Canadian industrial designer and visual artist of Jamaican and Bajan heritage, who was born in Bridgetown, Barbados and raised in Southern Ontario, Canada.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Live/Kara-Springer-and-Christian-Campbell--Translations.aspx|title=The Power Plant - Live – Programs & Events – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre|website=www.thepowerplant.org|access-date=2017-01-12}}
Career
Springer's name was featured on "Artists on Politics", a print art magazine, in the section titled, "Simone Leigh the group BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS for BLACK WOMEN ARTISTS MATTER in response to the continued inhumane institutionalized violence against Black lives".{{Cite book|title=Artforum International|last=Tillmans, Leigh, Myles, Leonard, and Scott|publisher=Artforum International Magazine|year=2016|volume=55|location=New York|pages=224|issue=3}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201609&id=64210|title=Simone Leigh|last=Leigh|first=Simone|newspaper=artforum.com|access-date=2017-01-12}} Springer's work has been exhibited in Germany at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, in Italy the Politecnico di Torino, the Cultural Centre of Belém in Portugal, and in the 2014 Jamaica Biennial.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Live/Kara-Springer-and-Christian-Campbell--Translations.aspx|title=The Power Plant - Live – Programs & Events – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre|website=www.thepowerplant.org|access-date=2017-01-12}}
Works
= ''Kaya Birth Stool'', 2008 =
Springer founded the Kaya Birth Stool 2008, which functions as a tool intended to provide comfort and assistance during birthing.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kayabirth.com/|title=Kaya Birth|website=Kaya Birth Stools {{!}} Support for Comfortable Upright Birth Positions|access-date=2017-01-12}}
= ''Translations'', 2015 =
Translations, created in collaboration with Christian Campbell, poet and cultural critic, was a multimedia installation that addressed concepts pertaining to memory, interdisciplinary practices, the archive, and aesthetics, it took place on April 8, 2015 at The Power Plant.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Live/Kara-Springer-and-Christian-Campbell--Translations.aspx|title=The Power Plant - Live – Programs & Events – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre|website=www.thepowerplant.org|access-date=2017-01-12}} Translations integrates image, text and sound, and operates as a tribute to Terry Adkins (1953–2014), a deceased American artist, in addition, to being a response to the parallel exhibit at The Power Plant, The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thepowerplant.org/ProgramsEvents/Programs/Live/Kara-Springer-and-Christian-Campbell--Translations.aspx|title=The Power Plant - Live – Programs & Events – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre|website=www.thepowerplant.org|access-date=2017-01-12}}
= ''A Small Matter of Engineering (Part 2)'', 2016 =
Springer created a sculpture titled, A Small Matter of Engineering (Part 2), which reads "White people. Do something," was installed in front of the Tyler School of Art in September 2016.{{Cite news|url=http://temple-news.com/lifestyle/artists-urge-audience-something/|title=Students use art to inspire social change - The Temple News|newspaper=The Temple News|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-12}}{{cite news|last1=Craig|first1=Daniel|title=Temple student's art display tells white people to 'do something'|url=http://www.phillyvoice.com/temple-students-art-display-tells-white-people-do-something/|access-date=12 January 2017|work=PhillyVoice|date=27 September 2016}}
References
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External links
- {{URL|karaspringer.ca|KaraSpringer.ca}}
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Category:Canadian industrial designers
Category:Canadian women designers
Category:21st-century Barbadian women artists
Category:21st-century Barbadian artists