{"id":61091,"date":"2024-09-24T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/?p=61091"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:28:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T13:28:54","slug":"kaya-anderson-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/kaya-anderson-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaya Anderson-Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freelance Illustrator<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-1x1-md\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/Kaya-Alexander-Head-Self-Portrait-2023-600x600.png\" alt=\"Kaya Anderson-Head\" class=\"wp-image-61093 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/Kaya-Alexander-Head-Self-Portrait-2023-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/Kaya-Alexander-Head-Self-Portrait-2023-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/Kaya-Alexander-Head-Self-Portrait-2023-1000x1000.png 1000w, https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/09\/Kaya-Alexander-Head-Self-Portrait-2023-300x300.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/600;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><br>Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art with a concentration in Illustration; Minor in Art History, UNC Charlotte (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI loved the sense of community that the illustration program created, and how much I learned about art as a career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although illustration was her concentration, Kaya Anderson-Head says that she benefitted greatly from the broad art education that she received at UNC Charlotte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTaking so many different classes from different art disciplines was so helpful because I feel like my work in [one class] informed and influenced my work in other classes,\u201d she told Associate Professor of Art History Jim Frakes in an interview. \u201cI feel like I was given a lot of opportunities to work with tools and materials I never would have been able to otherwise.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a student, Kaya won \u201cBest in Show\u201d in the Department of Art &amp; Art History\u2019s <em>54<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Annual Juried Student Exhibition<\/em>, selected by Dr. Emily Stamey, curator at Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro. 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