Julie Püttgen attended Yale University (BA) and Georgia State University (MFA). In the 1990s, she taught in Hong Kong, traveled around Asia, and then lived as a nun in Buddhist monasteries for three years. She teaches at Sewanee: The University of the South. Ms. Püttgen works across media, and also curates exhibitions, such as the environmentally-themed Cutting Fine, Cutting Deep exhibition of cut paper work from Switzerland and North America, which traveled around the South in 2008-2009. She has exhibited nationally in group and solo shows at museums and galleries including the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Yale School of Art Gallery, Space 301 in Mobile, and Ruby Green Contemporary Art in Nashville. Currently, she is at work organizing a tour of Unless & Until, her multimedia collaboration with James R. Carlson (music), JS van Buskirk (text), and Matt Gilbert (animations).