Kara Joy Hodge is a digital and multidisciplinary artist and animator from New York. She attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, later moving to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY to achieve a BS in Digital Media with a concentration in Animation and a Minor in Art History.
Her art tends to focus on memory, vulnerability, and personal experience. However, she maintains a flexible and open-minded approach to the themes she addresses. Her multimedia body of work contains drawings, paintings, and digital art. 

Currently, she is working at Sacred Heart Greenwich in Alumnae Relations and Advancement, where she is creating visual assets, illustrations, stationary, designs, and editorial layout.

Along with receiving a Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key for her painting Sunbathing in 2020, her work has been exhibited in the Steel Plant Gallery at Marist College for the Spring/Summer 2023 Student Exhibition, the Fall 2023 Thesis Exhibition, the Spring 2024 Senior Capstone Exhibition, and the Spring/Summer 2024 Student Exhibition.