Kenneth Marunowski is an artist and educator who lives and works in his hometown of Valley View, Ohio, just south of Cleveland where he was born. Ken grew up enjoying the cultural amenities of a big city and the spaciousness of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Marunowski’s passion for culture and nature took him to Kent State University where he received bachelor degrees in French and Painting as well as a Master of Arts in English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. in Literacy, Rhetoric and Social Practice. A full-time artist since 2016, Ken shares his rigorous pursuit of abstract and representational painting not only through exhibitions of the works he creates but also through the painting and drawing classes and workshops he teaches, the talks he gives, and the articles he writes on art-related topics.