| 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. |
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.[1]
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".[2] [3] 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.[4]
Springer founded the Kaya Birth Stool 2008, which functions as a tool intended to provide comfort and assistance during birthing.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
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.[8] [9]