Kat Hardy
A mostly self-taught artist who enjoys combining different world myths into new visions, day-dreaming and seeing what comes of it, and making up fun, whimsical stuff. She also sculpts and makes mini-environments to hide around her home city of Chicago. In addition to teaching art to school children, creating book covers and illustrations for game companies and authors, for the past 7 years she has spear-headed the increasingly popular Collective Art Project, a large interactive fantasy mural for GenCon (the largest game convention in the U.S.) where more than 100 people come to work together on painting the project.