About

 



Dreams, a Pandemic, Then... 

There was Light

It all starts with a dream. A fantasy of how great life could be. For me, it was creating things: sewing doll clothes, making new paper doll outfits, writing and producing puppet shows. I loved to draw. I wanted to be...an artist.Life had different ideas for me. To make ends meet, I worked in many fields, from finance to rigging 18th-century ships, I studied linguistics and moved to Italy, then started to veer toward web design and coding. Thinking I finally was able to be somewhat creative, BOOM, a pandemic, then tech layoffs. To keep my spirits up while job hunting, I scraped up some money to take Hyrum Osmond's MasterClass in animation - which led me to lighting. My goodness, I found it. My path was lit up like a fireworks-filled night sky. Bright, shiny, colorful, exciting! 

My name is Karen Kuzmiak,
I am a Lighting Artist.




 

 

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In order to stay abreast of the latest in lighting and the industry, two fellow lighters and I took the initiative and co-created the Discord server, Light Links, a place for lighters to have a place to work together and a one-stop shop for free resources about everything lighting: tools, software, readings, and tutorials.