Karen Haas
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FEATURED EXHIBITS 

October 2007 Los Medanos College Art Gallery, "Embodied," Pittsburg, CA
May - July 2007 Tied House Cafe, "Cinco de Mayo and Other Translations," San Jose
November 2005 - February 2006 Tied House Cafe, "Portraits in the Park," San Jose
November 16,         2001 Studio of Kathryn Dunlevie, "An Evening’s Viewing: Bed Life Series," Palo Alto
May - June 2000 University YWCA, Berkeley
February-April,        2000 Tied House Cafe, Mountain View
January 1998 Excentrique Gallery, "Recent Paintings," Sacramento
October 1995 Stanford University, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, "Past Times Three"
March 1995 Downtown YWCA "Uneasy Self Portraits: Between This World and That," San Jose

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS 

December 2006 WORKS/San Jose, "Silent Night Auction"
April, 2005 WORKS/San Jose, "Fools"
April 2002 Open studio, Josefina Espinoza and Karen Haas
April 2001 Triton Museum, "Making Her Mark," South Bay WCA Show
September -   December 2000 Mentor Graphics, San Jose
September 1999 Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center, "Faculty Show"
November 1998 -  November 1999 Computer Curriculum Corporation, Sunnyvale
August -       September, 1998 Danville Fine Arts, "Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House-Inspired Art, Poetry and Prose"
1997 Xerox, "WCA at Xerox PARC," Palo Alto
1997 Lynn House Gallery, "Invitational Exhibition," Antioch

TEACHING, ARTICLES, AND PUBLICATIONS 

1999 - present INSTRUCTOR, Oil Painting and Watercolor Classes for Adults, Sunnyvale Creative Arts Center
February 2001 "The Pleasures of Tchotchkes," Works + Conversation, Karen Haas and Tom Leddy
1999 "A Feminine Approach to Landscape," (detail), Julia Bradshaw, Vol.6 No.2
1993 - 1998 EDITOR, (detail), a journal of art criticism published by the South Bay Women's Caucus for Art

OTHER ART-RELATED EXPERIENCE 

2006 - present Pre-qualified artist pool, public art projects, City of San Jose
July 2001 JUROR, "Sunburst 2001," Sunnyvale Art Club
1990 - 1997 BOARD MEMBER, South Bay Women's Caucus for Art

EDUCATION

Classes attended at Pacific Basin School of Textile Art, Berkeley
M.A., Sociology, Northeastern University,  Boston
M.A., Art Education, University of Pittsburgh