Karen Baker

Karen Baker

Karen Baker has been teaching classes and workshops for over 35 years and delights in helping students discover and express their creative voice through applied technique and self-exploration. She studied drawing and mixed media with abstract artist, Barbara Garber, at Brattleboro Community College in Vermont where she became passionate about the pastel medium, landscape painting, and plein air. In the years that followed, she was mentored by Master Pastelist Herman Margulies, and studied with Stanley Maltzman, Christina DeBarry, Elizabeth Apgar-Smith and Wolf Kahn. Her artwork has received awards and recognition in regional and national shows as well as from The Artist’s Magazine Annual Juried Competition in 2004 and 2010. She holds Signature Membership with Connecticut Pastel Society and Pastel Society of America and is a member of Pastel Society of Tampa Bay, The Exhibiting Society of Artists, and Vermont Pastel Society. Galleries in Florida and New England also represent her work.