Oro Valley Library invites you to an exhibit by local artist Karen Brungardt, on display until November 13, 2025.
Artist Statement:
Karen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 from Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Karen moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1975 and applied to the University of Missouri in Kansas City in 1977 to attend the Masters of Art program. She was accepted and did one year toward her Master’s degree in art. She then decided to go to Medical School instead--that paid better than being a starving artist.
In college, Karen’s art interests were in oil painting, etchings, and pencil drawings. While in Family Practice, she started taking watercolor classes and she fell in love with that medium.
After retirement, she and her husband, Larry, moved to Saddlebrooke, Arizona, in 2002. Since then, she has concentrated on painting in watercolors and teaching Beginning Watercolor to students.
She is the past President of the Saddlebrooke Fine Arts Guild and has been a board member with the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild. She shows her work in the SAWG gallery on Broadway, in the Absolutely Art Gallery in Catalina, Arizona and also in Saddlebrooke.
Not only has she attained Signature Member status with SAWG, but she’s also earned the Saguaro Fellow level, the highest level of achievement available in the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild (SAWG).
Images courtesy of the artist
