Karen Kunc

Karen Kunc is Willa Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her awards include Fulbright Scholar Awards to Finland and Bangladesh, two National Endowment for the Arts awards, the 2007 SGCI Printmaker Emeritus Award, a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Master Award, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. She has exhibited her color woodcut prints and artist books extensively nationally and internationally, most recent include: Chamalières, France; Tokyo, Japan; Maui, Hawaii; New York, NY; Venice, Italy. Her work is in public collections including: the Museum of Modern Art; the Library of Congress; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Sheldon Museum of Art; American Art Museum Smithsonian; Haas Arts Library Yale University; Stanford University; Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland. She has taught workshops in Egypt, Italy, Finland, Poland, Japan, France, Mexico, Iceland, Spain; and she has lectured as a visiting artist to over 200 institutions. In 2014 she opened Constellation Studios as a creative work-site for print, paper, and book, inviting artists for residencies, workshops, collaborations, exhibitions.