Education

Fachhochschule fur Bauwesen/ Engineering and Architectural Institute 1970-1974, Hamburg, Germany

Hochscule fur Bildende-Kunste (Institute for Fine Arts) 1975-1978, guest, Hamburg, Germany.

Awards & Achievements

2006 Hamburg Germany, “The Making of Paul’s Opa” film debut, German American Cultural Center, St. Paul, MN

2006 I-Park Artists Residence/ Film Commission/ New Year 2005-2006

2005 St. Paul Foundation/ China Travel & Study Film Grant,Yunnan Province/China

2005 Film Commission/ Farm in The City/ Documentation of Highland Park Project

2004 Minnesota State Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Award/ Multi-Media Installation

2004 Minnesota State Arts Board/”Winter Birds” Public Art Project Award/ Fergus Falls, Minnesota

2004 Great Plains Museum, Fargo, S. Dakota, “Uncanny Visions 2 “ Multi-Media Installation

2004 I-Park Artists Enclave, Artist Residency & Film Debut, East Haddam, Connecticut

2003 University of Tasmania, Artist in Residence, Hobart, Tasmania Australia

2003 Phipps Center, Uncanny Visions, Hudson, Wisconsin

2001-2002 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology/Artist Residency, September-February 2002

2002 Portland Contemporary Craft Museum/Film Debut “Vladimir Tsvisin, Artist at Work”

2002 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology/Film & Exhibit/Artist at Work, Digital Cinema Series

1999 Minnesota Artist Exhibition Award/Solo Exhibit, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1999 Arrowhead Regional Arts Career Opportunity Grant

1999 Vermi-Composting Greenhouse /Grant award for passive solar greenhouse for Lake Superior Technical College, Duluth, MN

2000 Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant

2000 Minnesota State Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship

2000 McKnight/Minneapolis College of Art and Design Fellowship semifinalist

2000 Jerome Travel and Study Grant, Environmental Art Institute, Sitka, Oregon

2000 Arrowhead Regional Arts Visual Arts Fellowship

1998-2000 Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program panel member, curated exhibits at the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Minneapolis, MN

Awards & Achievements

2000 Artist-in-Residence /Rudy & Lola Perpich Center for Arts Education, Mpls, MN

1997 Common Language board member, developed artists group promoting arts opportunities

1982 Hamlin Award, Hamlin, Germany, Public Art Commission, Youth Prison, artist-in-residence

Exhibitions

2004 Minnesota State Arts Board/ Arts Across Minnesota

2004 Plains Museum/ Uncanny Visions/ The Romantic Landscape Fargo, North Dakota

2002-2003 Daum Museum, “Awakenings” Sedalia Missouri

2002 Phipps Museum, “UnCanny Visions” Hudson, Wisconsin

2002 Portland Contemporary Craft Museum/Film Debut “Vladimir Tsvisin, Artist at Work”

2001 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology/Film & Exhibit/ “Patricia Canelake,Artist at Work,” Digital Cinema Series

2001 Sitka Center for Art & Ecology/Film & Exhibit/ “Gene Gentry McMahon, Artist at Work,” Digital Cinema Series

2000 Great Lakes Aquarium, Earth, Wind & Water, Duluth, MN

2000 Necessary Differences/No Name Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2000 Art Across Minnesota/Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN

2000 Foot in the Door Show, Minneapolis At Institute, Minneapolis, MN

2000 The Deal, No Name Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2000 KESS Gallery, Twelve Artists and a Poet, Ely, MN

2000 Perpich Center for Art Education, Mentor Exhibit, Golden Valley, MN

1999 Minneapolis Art Institute/Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program “Humanature”. Solo exhibition of three environmental installations

1998 Projects for the city of Duluth, Minnesota. Designed safe kayak harbor viewing tower.

“2001 and Beyond, Visioning Project”, Duluth, MN

1996 Community Garden Public Art Project, Duluth, MN Duluth Zoo

1995 Lutsen House, Lutsen, MN Designed and built home utilizing passive solar design

1995 Halquist House, Duluth, MN Passive solar design integrated into turn of the century architecture.

1994 Designed teahouse & Japanese garden incorporating ravine, bridge, gardens, and sculpture

1999 Vermi-Composting Greenhouse /Grant award for passive solar greenhouse for Lake Superior Technical College

1989 Hamburg, Markthallen, group exhibit

1983 Northern Sun Poster Collective Art Exhibition, Mpls, MN, founding member

1980 Galleryhouse, Frankfort, Germany, solo exhibit, “Objective Time,” mixed media

1979 Nansengarerd Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, solo exhibit, “Movie and Movement” drawings.

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