Cara Golden

Cara Golden is an interdisciplinary artist from San Diego, California. She holds a B.A. from San Diego State University in Applied Arts and Design.

Golden’s current body of work is a critical study of traditional craft-oriented arts, with an emphasis in utilitarianism and materiality. While this exploration spans across many disciplines, her process involves conventional textile and pottery techniques such as knitting, netting, weaving, basketry, coiling, wheel throwing, and slip casting, mixed with unconventional alterations and firing processes. This tactile experience is experimental, and aimed to bring attention to the historical importance of craft and design, in a contemporary setting. 

Awards and Honors

2019 Juror’s Award, SDSU 21st Annual Juried Student Award Exhibition 

2019 Anderson Ranch Alfreda Maloof Fellowship 

2019 Idyllwild Arts Teaching Assistantship, Steven Hill

2018-2019 SDSU Dean’s List, Honors

2018 Creative Weaver’s Guild Scholarship 

2018 Isabelle Kraft Sculpture Scholarship

2018 Arline Fisch Haystack Mountain School of Craft Fellowship

2017 Featured Artist Mingei Collectors’ Gallery