gwen putZ

Gwen Putz is a Printmaking artist from Sagamore Hills, OH pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She will graduate in 2025. Gwen Putz’s work focuses on and explores aspects of memory, archive, and familial and cultural histories. Using the immigrant women within her family to draw inspiration, she works mainly in the complex processes of printmaking like etching and lithography. Her work has been in several group showings at the Cleveland Institute of Art and she has participated in a large scale woodcut project in conjunction with Big INK Collaborative Prints. This collaborative project was exhibited at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, OH and the West Woods Nature Center in Novelty, OH. Gwen Putz is also currently participating in the Creativity Works Internship Program at the Cleveland Institute of Art to produce artworks inspired and aided by the Finnish Heritage Museum in Fairport, OH.

For this class exhibition, Gwen’s work responds to Untitled (Kneeling Woman with Mask) (1998) by Kara Walker!