Kara Walker

Born in Stockton, CA and raised in Stone Mountain, GA, the youngest child of a college professor/painter and a banker. Received her formal art education at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she mether German-born husband, Klaus Burgel. Gained early fame for her large-scale works of precisely drawn black-paper silhouette dramas, caricaturing the lives of the slaves and masters in the Antebellum American south. 1997 is a signal year for Walker, marking the birth of her first child and the receipt of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (""Genius Grant