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Karen Peterson Harding has studied at the San Francisco Art |
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| Institute, Columbia University, Instituto de Allende (San Miguel | |
| deAllende, Mexico), Massachusetts College of Art, and the | |
| Provincetown MA whiteline workshop (with Ferol Sibley Warthen). | |
| Along the way, she made use of many artist survival strategies. She | |
| has been a waitress, jello tester, lobster shucker, grape picker, | |
| sales clerk, free-lance trucker and mover, guest house owner/manager, | |
| and Peace Corps teacher in Thailand. She has also done plant and | |
| flower installation and maintenance, antique restoration and appraising, | |
| craft shows, and world traveling (including hitchhiking from one end of | |
| Morocco to the other). From 1982 to 1997 she lived in Provincetown | |
| and was an active and highly respected member of the artists' colony | |
| there. Karen now lives in Mexico. Karen Peterson Harding | |
| is also an accomplished photographer, and is currently exploring the | |
| medium of warm glass. | |
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Music is also a large part of Karen's life. She studied at the Blue Bear |
| Waltzes School of Genuine Music (San Francisco) and New York's | |
| Julliard School, and has taken private lessons on several instruments | |
| (acoustic and electric bass, alto and tenor saxophone, clarinet and bass | |
| clarinet, bassoon, piano and guitar). She has played classical music and | |
| jazz in duo, trio, and quartet settings, in wind ensembles, community | |
| bands, dance bands, pit bands for musical shows, in a 300-member | |
| marching band and even played street harmonica in Europe. | |
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