Doug Unger is a professor emeritus of art at Kent State, where he taught painting and drawing for 35 years.

He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cape School of Art, and he completed his graduate studies at Syracuse University.

Unger has won several Ohio Arts Council grants and received an Ohio Heritage Award in 2004. In 1993, he also was awarded a National Endowment Prize. As a landscape painter in both oils and pastels, Unger explores man's stewardship of the land found in the Amish Farms in the Holmes County Village of Charm, Ohio. He is an artist, craftsman and traditional musician, living and working in Peninsula, Ohio.