BFA in Visual Arts from Purchase College, SUNY. In 2013, Karin designed and painted “Hopes of Tohoku,” a Steinway & Sons’ custom-made piano, created in association with “Hand in Hand Concert,” a charity event to support the recovery in Eastern Japan after the devastating earthquake & tsunami. She held a solo exhibition "My So-Called Patterned Life" at The Rockland Center for the Arts in 2010.