Bio
Kara Crabb (born 1990, Windsor, ON) is a Canadian writer, designer, and consultant. Active since the 2010s, her style combines "high" and "low" subject matter and symbolism, often executed in a playful tone. Her work has appeared internationally in magazines, festivals, and galleries; most recently at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, as part of the Architects Against Housing Alienation! exhibition at the Canada Pavilion. She is non-status of mixed First Nations and white ancestry, and a product of Xytex gamete #2433.
2021-Present
In September 2021, she relocated to Vancouver to pursue a Master of Architecture degree at the University of British Columbia. She worked closely with Tijana Vujošević and Matthew Soules for the launch of Architects Against Housing Alienation!, in preparing a digital campaign. Through this she met Patrick R. Stewart, and became a communications lead for First Nations-based projects. Her studies also inspired an undertaking of mosaic sculpture, and she debuted her memorial installation at Massy Arts Society in autumn 2023. In July 2024, she worked with Cory Douglas and Ginger Gosnell-Myers as a cultural consultant for the City of Vancouver on the Broadway Corridor project.
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2016-2020
Between 2016 and 2020, Crabb was involved with artists in the Montreal underground scene, where she collaborated frequently with Kara-Lis Coverdale over a shared interest in acoustics and artificial intelligence. In 2017, they premiered "Children" at Variform Gallery in Portland, Oregon. During this time, Crabb also worked with the non-profit organization, United for Literacy, where she co-directed Cree and Inuktitut language conservation programs for youth. She graduated with an Honours in Linguistics at Concordia University in 2018. Coverdale and Crabb performed "Pattern Language" together in 2019.
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2010-2015
Crabb began writing and illustrating for Vice Magazine after she graduated high school. Her articles were published in multiple languages, and garnered attention from hundreds of thousands of readers internationally. In 2010, she wrote and directed a play called The Stillbirth, published in an anthology by Signature Editions the following year. (Today monologues from this play are still being used for Concordia University's Theatre Department admissions.) In 2014, she appeared in the second issue of Tunica, an art and fashion publication out of New York. That year she took a hiatus to study computational linguistics and generative grammar at Concordia University.
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