Gerda Kunkel is a Western Massachusetts resident who paints in oils and watercolors.  She also works in stained glass and favors abstraction of natural subjects.  Her background includes a B.A. magna cum laude and an M.A. in Art History from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, as well as courses at Greenfield Community College, and the adult education program at Falmouth High, Massachusetts.  She also participated in a color workshop by local artist James Lumley.  She spent a year in Woods Hole, MA, and held her 1st exhibition - Memories of Cape Cod - at Gallery 10 in September 1996.  In the Summer of 1999 her work was included in the Guild Studio School Student Art Exhibit.