Certain she needed to be an artist from the time she was a small child, Karen D. Beckwith, she/her, graduated from The Cleveland Institute of Art in 1987 with a BFA in Printmaking and Illustration. In 1998 she became a part of a premier group of printmakers who have successfully completed a Tamarind Institute Master Printer Fellowship. This makes her one out of only a little over a hundred printmakers internationally to have a registered chop mark with Tamarind Institute.

As a certified Master Printer and professional artist, Karen has worked collaboratively with well-known artists. Karen’s personal body of artistic work had been widely exhibited and she is honored to be in prominent private and corporate printmaking collections across the United States. She has shown internationally as well in Taiwan and Russia.

The work Karen creates explores rural and urban spaces showing evidence of existence without revealing the inhabitants. Her roots in the country, current surroundings in the city and the places to which she travels are all influential. Buildings, entryways, doors, and back alleys offer continual fuel for her work. She likes to examine the history of the place and comment on her discoveries. The discovery is in the journey.

Karen currently resides in Cleveland OH and continues to develop new work at Ping Pong Press and K2 Art Studios.