Theresa Marie Ketterer is an artist that mixes symbols from various cultures with images of wolves in abstract drawings. Born in San Diego, she also lived in California, Missouri, and, for 13 years, in Oklahoma. Both as an artist and an art historian, her primary focus is works on paper. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA with Emphasis in Art History, Theory, and Criticism in 2012. She studied drawing and painting at the Bauhaus Universität-Weimar as an exchange student (2011) in Germany. In 2014, she received her MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Currently, Ketterer lives and works in Manhattan, Kansas.