Kara Joy Hodge is a digital and multidisciplinary artist and animator from New York. She attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, later moving to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY to achieve a BS in Digital Media with a concentration in Animation and a Minor in Art History.
Her art tends to focus on memory, vulnerability, and personal experience. However, she maintains a flexible and open-minded approach to animation and the themes she addresses. Her multimedia body of work contains drawings, paintings, and digital art such as 2D animations and 3D animations, models, and designs. 
In the summer of 2023, she worked on the graphic design and social media teams at American Weekend Entertainment: Music Daily creating music and performance-related content. In addition, she worked with Lil’ Iguana Children’s Safety Foundation to create visual teaching materials including social media posts, an animated music video, lip-synced animations, and GIFs for the Lil’ Iguana character. 
Along with receiving a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key for her painting Sunbathing in 2020, her work has been exhibited in the Steel Plant Gallery at Marist College for the Spring/Summer 2023 Student Exhibition, the Fall 2023 Thesis Exhibition, the Spring 2024 Senior Capstone Exhibition, and the Spring/Summer 2024 Student Exhibition. Outside of these endeavors, she is a martial artist who practices Tae Kwon Do and she recently added whittling to her list of creative hobbies.