About Karen

Karen Sparks Kirkwood has been trained in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting, Drawing, Web Design and New Media. She is an Adobe Certified Associate in Visual Communication using Adobe Photoshop CS6 and is also a professional Art Educator. Karen earned a Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting and a Bachelors of Science in Art Education from State University of New Paltz, New York in December, 1999.  Since then, Karen has been teaching art in Phoenix, AZ for 21 years. She began a Masters program with the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, CA in Computer Arts and New Media.

Karen resides in Phoenix, AZ with her husband and four children. She creates works for clients in many medias and spends quality time with her family.