Inspiring Women Winter 2017

Inspiration from Switzerland
GEMA KLEIN
I am a founding co-chair of the AWCZ Art Guild—
an activity where members visit museums and
galleries and participate in workshops exploring
different artistic media. I am also the gallerist for
Gallery at the Club, the AWCZ’s in-house
exhibition program for artists.
The Art Guild, which began in 2013, allows our
members to visit museums and galleries in Zurich
or other Swiss cities to view art. Through Art Guild,
we see and learn about the work of established
and up and coming artists who worked/work in a
wide diversity of media. Sharing my love of art in
these ways is success to me.
I began working with Gallery at AWCZ in early
2014. In the Gallery at the Club, members can
see the work of exhibiting artists on our Clubhouse
walls. I love working with artists to develop an exhibition that inspires and satisfies them and
our club members and exhibition visitors that they are sharing their work with.
The AWCZ has
enabled me to pursue
a career I had always
wondered about. In
the US, I was a
university level English
instructor for many
years, but always
loved art, art
museums, art galleries.
After moving to
Switzerland in 2008
and joining the AWCZ,
I wanted to share my
love of art, my love of
learning about and
viewing art.
As a gallerist, working
with artists requires a
American Women’s Club of Zurich (AWCZ),
Switzerland
From: Springfield, Illinois, USA
Lives: Rieden, Switzerland
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