Kara Crombie

Discipline: Filmmaking

Based In: Philadelphia, PA

Year at Millay: 2015

Awards/Honors: Fellow, International Open Call Fellowship, Instituto Sacatar, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil (2016); Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2014); Fellow, MacDowell, Peterborough, NH (2012); Fellow, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, PA (2010).

Website: http://www.karacrombie.com/%20

Kara Crombie is a moving images and sound artist who lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, MacDowell Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts Fellowship, Sacatar Institute Fellowship, and a Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge Artist. Her work has been exhibited and screened at many well-known galleries and museums. She was a member of the art collective Vox Populi from 2006–2011. She has worked with The Monument Lab “Creative Speculations for Philadelphia” project at The Penn Institute for Urban Research to create a monument for Franklin Square Park. Kara is currently an Assistant Professor of Photographic Imaging and Digital Video Production at the Community College of Philadelphia.