Karen Kettering Dimit, Co-Founder of the LIC Arts Open, is a self-taught artist, but steeped in art history, classical techniques and contemporary conceptual art through extensive travel, voracious art exposure and occasional workshops.  Ms. Dimit has won many awards, and shown extensively throughout the U.S.  Her Ms. Sphinx and Medusa (after Caravaggio) are in the new Skylands Museum of Art, Lafayette, NJ. Most recently, she has shown with the Sculptors' Guild, co-curated and shown in Behind the Mask: the Art of Women Who Weld at Culture Lab LIC, won the red dot in the Art Students League Salon, won the Contemporary Innovation Award at the 2018 Mosaic Arts International. Other recent invited or juried shows at The Gallery at Penn College, The Parthenon Nashville, the Women's History Museum of California, Museum of Glass in Tacoma WA, Gold Coast Arts Center, Philadelphia's Magic Garden Gallery, the Painted Bride, the Museum of Man in San Diego, and multiple shows in NYC and Boston. Ms. Dimit maintains a studio in Long Island City, NY. She is a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) and Sculptors Guild.