Garie Waltzer was born in New York City and received her BFA in painting and MFA in photography from State University of New York/ Buffalo. She migrated to the midwest in the early 1970’s, and developed the photography program at Cuyahoga Community College where she was Coordinator of Photography and taught for many years in the Department of Visual Communication + Design.
Waltzer’s current photographic work explores the cultural landscape of urban space, in highly detailed evocations of place. It is included in many private, corporate and museum collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Robert B. Menschel Media Center in Syracuse, NY, Houston’s Museum of Fine Art, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, The Cleveland Foundation, the George Gund Foundation, Progressive Insurance, The Ohio Arts Council, and more. She is a recipient of artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, residency fellowships at LightWork in Syracuse, NY and Vermont Studio Center, and was awarded the 2012 mid-career Cleveland Arts Prize.
Waltzer has worked on a range of commissioned projects, including photo essays for the George Gund Foundation and The Cultural Landscape Foundation as well as a privately commissioned landscape book piece. Her work has been included in LightWork’s Fine Print program and in their publication Contact Sheet. Her Living City project has been exhibited in Singapore and Hong Kong and in many regional venues. She is currently working on an artist book project featuring work from Armature for Stories, exploring urban space in Vietnam. Home base is Cleveland, Ohio.