Christine Baeumler
(American painter, born 1962)
American, b. 1962
Christine Arle Baeumler grew up in Buffalo, New York and received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Yale University and an M.F.A. from Indiana University at Bloomington. She also studied with painter, Musashi Watanabe in Kyoto, Japan. Baeumler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Baeumler has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation, and the Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment and FORECAST Public Artworks. A community and environmentally based practice has involved working with community members and organizations to restore these urban habitats in Saint Paul, Minnesota. For the past ten years, Baeumler has worked actively in the Swede Hollow Park and the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary.

Through her art, Baeumler seeks to raise awareness about ecological issues, such as the extinction of species. Most recently, she is investigating the impact of global climate change on the environments of the rain forest and reef ecosystems. Her research has taken her to the Northern Australian Rain Forest, the Great Barrier Reef and most recently, the Galapagos Archipelago. - (http://www.formandcontent.org/chris.htm)