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Christopher Ganz, M.F.A.

Associate Professor

Christopher Ganz is an Associate Professor teaching printmaking and drawing classes at IPFW. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1995 and a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2002.

Ganz recently exhibited in a two-person show at Huntington College in Huntington, Indiana, Works on Paper: Christopher Ganz and Paul Schumann. He also recently displayed works in several drawing and printmaking exhibitions, including Border to Border 9, A National Drawing Competition and On/Of paper, a national works on paper competition. In the fall of 2004 Ganz will be exhibiting drawings at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

“ In my artwork I convey mankind’s drive to create as a defining yet dangerous component of humanity. Through the creative act we seek to satisfy our imaginations, and through this we effectively create our selves. This is why creativity can be such a powerful and potentially dangerous urge. So much so, that as a species our creative impulse has overridden our own sense of self-preservation. I wish for my art to both capture and celebrate this as an almost heroic sacrifice to the human imagination. Whether physical or psychological, the inherent danger of creativity is fascinating to me. In my work I portray myself as an individual engaged in the creative struggle with dangers both real and imagined.”

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