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Karen Guancione has been awarded a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists and Communities Grant, three New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships, a Ford Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant and an Exhibition Grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Her interdisciplinary art includes large-scale installations, performance, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, bookarts and video; has been exhibited worldwide and is in numerous public and private collections. She has curated many exhibitions, is an adjunct professor of art at the State University of New York (SUNY Purchase) and Montclair State University, and has been a visiting artist and lecturer at numerous schools and institutions in the United States and abroad. She is the first-time recipient of the Erena Rae Award for Art and Social Justice. For over a decade, she has served as artistic director / curator of the annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium and Exhibition.