Carla Gannis

Carla Gannis grew up in a small town in North Carolina and later went to college at University of North Carolina. Carla studied at college Painting and the Piano and graduated with a degree with both. After graduating, like many people, Gannis moved to New York City to try to find a job. Obviously with Gannis' degree it was hard to find a job, her first job was library databasing, just so she could make a little bit of money. Gannis quickly grew bored of working at the library and started some new jobs related more to New Media. Gannis never thought that she would be interested in New Media and Graphic Design however it was her father that was always interested in it, and pushed her to take it up. At the beginning of Gannis' career times were quite tough; she lived in a loft with ten other people and it was hard to make money.

Today Gannis is now an artist, designer and a professor at Pratt Institute of Design in NYC. There are a number of new media projects that she has worked over the years and currently working on which have been very successful. Some of her projects include: Sister Gemini, which she describes as her alter ego, Travelogue, I dream of Geenie and the Jezebel video game. All of her projects are very personal to her and relate back to her life growing up in the south. There are many cultural aspects and influences that are still in her mind today from her childhood. Gannis has worked extremely hard to get where she is today, coming from a small town in North Carolina, moving to NYC and making something of herself.