Background
Gwen Widmer was born on March 10, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Gwen Widmer was born on March 10, 1945, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Gwen Widmer earned a Bachelor of Arts from Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana (1967), and a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1973).
Gwen Widmer has been an assistant professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, since 1976, and previously taught at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana (1972-1974). Her large hand-colored photographs sometimes include writing and drawing