Kara Sisk

Kara’s passion is facilitating creative expression through visual arts in children. Nourishing their ideas and giving them formal knowledge of artistic mediums by which they can express themselves freely is what she does.

In 1990, after receiving her BFA in painting from PNCA, she founded INNERSCAPE Art Center. INNERSCAPE is a children’s Art Center offering an exploration into many mediums such as drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, weaving, book arts and puppetry. She has taught children for the past 20 years both nationally as well as internationally in private and institutional settings.

Currently Kara continues to run Innerscape as well as being a teacher for CHAP (Children’s Healing Art Project) www.chap.name spending 3 days a week at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Having been a volunteer with the Dougy Center for 5 years and now working on an oncology ward she has a particular interest in the healing role of art and creative expression in the child’s processing of grief, loss, death and dying.

In the past she has been the head coordinator for PNCA’s Young Artist Project, and been a Sky Captain for Art for the Sky, www.artforthesky.com.

Her own work is in environmental sculptures, book arts and printmaking.