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Karen Hundt-Brown - Gourd Artist Karen grew up in southern Michigan on a working farm where she learned many different kinds of arts and crafts through her involvement in 4-H and her love of animals. Karen won the Golden Key art scholarship award her senior year of high school and attend Southwestern Michigan College where she studied English and art. A year later she then transferred to Kendall School of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. Where she studied illustration and photo realism for two years, but she couldn't see herself as a traditional artist and moved on. Karen spent many years looking for a medium that would allow her to show case all the different techniques she'd learned over the years. She married and moved to Alaska Michigan and started a garden where she grew gourds her first year. When the fall came around and she found 50 gourds under all the dead vines in the garden she had no idea what to do with them and went to the library to find out more about them. |
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