Karla Ortiz (She/Her)

Concept Artist Director

Karla Ortiz is a Puerto Rican, internationally recognized, award-winning artist. With her exceptional design sense, realistic renders, and character-driven narratives. Karla has contributed to many big-budget projects, including Jurassic World, World of Warcraft, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Marvel's Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Infinity Wars, Loki Season 01 and 02, Eternals, and most notably her design of Doctor Strange for Marvel's Doctor Strange. Karla's work is also recognized in the fine art world, showcasing her figurative and mysterious art in notable galleries, such as Spoke Art and Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, Nucleus Gallery, Thinkspace, Maxwell Alexander Gallery in LA, and Galerie Arludik in Paris. She currently lives in San Francisco with her lovely cat, Bady.

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PARTICIPANT SCHEDULE

Friday 10/24

The Fight for Artists Against GenAI

Karla Ortiz | Mia Araujo | Ben Y. Zhao | Evan Winston

This panel will cover the victories and challenges the art community has faced in the world of GenAI and the tools (Glaze, Nightshade, Hemlock) that can help us.

Each one of these panelists has helped shape the fight against unethical GenAI scraping and corporate overreach. Listen to how you can also join the fight to protect artists rights, human rights and combat overreaching and unethical GenAI

This panel’s guests are Ben Zhao (Professor at U of C + Creator of Glaze and Hemlock), Karla Ortiz Artist right’s advocate, plaintiff and Concept Artist for Film and games, Deana Igelsrud (Democratic rep for LA county) and Evan Winston (Senior Engineer at LinkedIn)

Saturday 10/25

Life Drawing Session hosted by Karla Ortiz

Karla Ortiz

Let’s take a moment to practice our human anatomy with a good old life drawing session. Hosted by renowned concept artist Karla Ortiz!

Join our host, Karla, as she draws alongside attendees, gives helpful tips to better improve your life drawing skills and overall have a fun time drawing together! Get there quickly, as seating is limited!

Sunday 10/26

Life Drawing Session hosted by Karla Ortiz

Karla Ortiz

Let’s take a moment to practice our human anatomy with a good old life drawing session. Hosted by renowned concept artist Karla Ortiz!

Karla Ortiz (She/Her)

The Fight for Artists Against GenAI

Life Drawing Session hosted by Karla Ortiz

Life Drawing Session hosted by Karla Ortiz

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