Kay Brown is a fine art printmaker and was born in Eugene, Oregon, studied at Cornish School of Art and Music in Seattle, Art Center School and Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

She has had a career in graphic design in Los Angeles specializing in corporate image programs and industrial design. Presently she has developed a line of fashion accessories using experimental printmaking and discharge dyeing techniques.

As a printmaker and member of Los Angeles Printmaking Society, Santa Barbara Printmaking Association, Arroyo Arts Collective of Northeast Los Angeles, and Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective she has exhibited in juried shows at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Avenue 50 Gallery, and Tia Chucha Gallery among others. As a founding member she has exhibited with Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective at El Camino College Gallery and Occidental College Library in Los Angeles, as well as New York, Austin, San Francisco, Notre Dame, and has participated in Self-Help Graphics print seminars and print sales since 2002.

She is a certified private mediator and volunteers as a dispute resolution specialist with the Los Angeles City Attorneys Dispute Resolution Program, and co-chaired the Textbook Taskforce as a Commissioner of the Los Angeles Unified School District Mexican American Education Commission, served as Administrative Assistant to the Hispanic Urban Center in Los Angeles and published a weekly newspaper in Humboldt County, California from 1996 to 1999. Upon her returned to Los Angeles in 2000 she worked with the Grantsmanship Center training program.

Los de Abajo Printmaking Collective currently serves as resident artists at Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California where they hold ongoing etching, woodcut and experimental printmaking workshops open to the public.