Bio
Jody King Camarra has studied art in many different media (sculpture, drawing, painting, collage) and settings, including the University of Massachusetts, Mass College of Art, The Art Students League and the New York Academy of Art. She has worked with kids in various community programs including the Big Brother/Big Sisters, Boys & Girls Club and the YWCA. She taught in the Saturday Art School at Pratt Institute’s Art and Design Education program and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Gan Chabad preschool.
In 2004 Jody left her advertising sales career track to explore her artistic vision(s). For the two years following she was primarily a student at the Art Students League, sculpting and drawing 5 mornings a week and painting at the New York Academy of Art in the evenings. During this time, Jody worked as a mentor/teacher for an afterschool program in various NYC public High Schools for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program through a two year grant. In 2006 she found a creative position with a floral designer in NYC, where she worked for a few years until needing to go back to advertising sales in order to make ends meet. Jody spent many summers studying at Art New England in Bennington, Vermont with her mom, New Marlborough artist Caryn King.
Jody went back to school in 2011, pursuing a masters degree in Art Education at Pratt Institute. After the birth of her first daughter, she co-founded the Small Hands Workshop small hands workshop with another local Brooklyn mom and educator. During the pandemic, she started an online collage club held weekly on Zoom to continue to create and connect with fellow artists.
Jody has a passion for experimenting, creating, learning from and teaching children.
King Camarra recently celebrated the publication of her second illustrated children's book, Goodnight Star, Whoever You Are by Jodi Meltzer.
Jody King Camarra has studied art in many different media (sculpture, drawing, painting, collage) and settings, including the University of Massachusetts, Mass College of Art, The Art Students League and the New York Academy of Art. She has worked with kids in various community programs including the Big Brother/Big Sisters, Boys & Girls Club and the YWCA. She taught in the Saturday Art School at Pratt Institute’s Art and Design Education program and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Gan Chabad preschool.
In 2004 Jody left her advertising sales career track to explore her artistic vision(s). For the two years following she was primarily a student at the Art Students League, sculpting and drawing 5 mornings a week and painting at the New York Academy of Art in the evenings. During this time, Jody worked as a mentor/teacher for an afterschool program in various NYC public High Schools for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program through a two year grant. In 2006 she found a creative position with a floral designer in NYC, where she worked for a few years until needing to go back to advertising sales in order to make ends meet. Jody spent many summers studying at Art New England in Bennington, Vermont with her mom, New Marlborough artist Caryn King.
Jody went back to school in 2011, pursuing a masters degree in Art Education at Pratt Institute. After the birth of her first daughter, she co-founded the Small Hands Workshop small hands workshop with another local Brooklyn mom and educator. During the pandemic, she started an online collage club held weekly on Zoom to continue to create and connect with fellow artists.
Jody has a passion for experimenting, creating, learning from and teaching children.
King Camarra recently celebrated the publication of her second illustrated children's book, Goodnight Star, Whoever You Are by Jodi Meltzer.