Karen Glanders’ journey has been one of soul searching, exploring emotions, nature, and spirituality. She attended Herron School of Fine Art and has worked out of her studio since 1998. Her love for tactile material and texture continues to grow and evolve in all of her work.
Painting has been the primary focus in her work but over the course of the last two decades, she has enjoyed the exploration of mosaics and ceramics too.
Artist Statement
My work is a reflection of the search for my spiritual devotion and responsibility in the world today. For 25 years my work has been moved, and is a continuous evolution, by my journey of faith. More recently, the last 5 years, I have strived to surrender what I think I know and open myself up to a new experience and the unknown. I am tired of having the last word. I feel 95 percent of who I am lies beneath the surface of my conscience, which I do not know and have come to accept I do not understand. I am of the belief that that goodness in the vast ocean that lies below is my Higher Power that I would like to know better and I’d like to let him be the one that speaks for me.
My expression has been explored and discovered through mosaics, ceramics and painting.
EDUCATION
1978-1982 INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, B.S. EDUCATION
1993-1998 HERRON SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
2000 NITA LEELAND CREATIVE WORKSHOP, SAN JUAN ISLANDS, WASHINGTON
2008 CHICAGO MOSAIC ART SCHOOL, ILANA SHAFIR MOSAIC WORKSHOP
2015 QUANG HO WORKSHOP
AWARDS
2018 MOSAIC ARTS INTERNATIONAL, JUROR’S CHOICE AWARD
EXHIBITIONS
2003 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, GROUP SHOW
2003 CHRISTIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY , INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, JURIED EXHIBITION
2004 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, GROUP SHOW
2005 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, 2 PERSON SHOW
2006 SPRINGFIELD LITURGICAL ART FESTIVAL, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, JURIED EXHIBITION
2006 STANLEY CLARK’S ART FOR THE MIND, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
2006 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, GROUP SHOW
2007 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, GROUP SHOW
2009 STANLEY CLARK’S ART FOR THE MIND, SOUTH BEN, INDIANA
2010 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, GROUP SHOW
2012 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, GROUP SHOW
2015 EDITIONS LIMITED, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, SOLO SHOW
2018 MOSAIC ARTS INTERNATIONAL, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
2019 ST. MEINRAD MONASTERY, ST. MEINRAD, INDIANA 2 PERSON SHOW
2020 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ACRYLIC PAINTERS, JURIED ONLINE EXHIBIT.
COMMERCIAL COMMISSIONS
2006 ST. ELIZABETH SETON, CARMEL, INDIANA
2007 CAMP TECUMSEH, BROOKSTON, INDIANA
2008 AUGUST MACK ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
2008 GUERIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA
2013-14 MARIAN UNIVERISTY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
2017 ST. CHARLES BORROMEAO CATHOLIC CHURCH, BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
BOOK PUBLICATION
100 ARTISTS OF THE MIDWEST: ILLINOIS, INDIANA, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, OHIO, AND WISCONSIN, E. ASHLEY ROONEY, 2012
PRESENTATIONS
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2025- ST. THEODORE GUERIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL, NOBLESVILLE, INDIANA
2010- ST. ELIZABETH SETON, CARMEL INDIANA
2011- INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
2014- LEGATUS, MARIAN UNIVERSITY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
2014- INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC BUSINESS EXCHANGE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MOSAIC ARTISTS, SAMA
CHRISTIANS IN THE VISUAL ARTS, CIVA
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST SOCIETY
