BlueVelvetStudio

Karen Cassidy













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Karen Cassidy has a wide range of talents and interest, ranging from photography to costume design, from science to music. By the age of 16 she had spent 8 years studying each concert piano and violin; by age 30 had completed a PhD in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. In 2001 she became actively involved with photography and studied privately with photographer James Balodimas. Karen exhibited photographs in several Chicago art galleries, and opened Blue Velvet Studio 2002 in Chicago’s Wicker Park art district with open house during the Around the Coyote art festivals. These exhibits included Karen’s photography and also artwork by other photographers, painters, sculptors, with occasional film shorts and live bands. She reopened Blue Velvet Studio in April 2009 in downtown Mobile, AL.