Contributors
Quodlibetica welcomes and credits everyone who has been involved in the project: designers, writers, editors, news suppliers, poets, and artists. To find out how to get involved, contact us.
Adrienne Czech
Adrienne Czech holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Minnesota. Her interest in museums has led her to contribute to the development and interpretation of the spinning and weaving display at the Pope County Museum in Glenwood, MN. She has since curated a display of textiles from around the world at the University of Minnesota- Morris campus. Considering herself a textile enthusiast, Adrienne embroiders, knits and weaves.
Andy DuCett
Andy DuCett received his MFA from the University of Illinois and BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He currently teaches at the College of Visual Art in St. Paul, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the University of Wisconsin-Stout. His work has been shown in galleries in Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, Milwaukee and Honolulu, as well as many Twin Cities locations. He has been published in New American Paintings, Vita.mn, The Portland Mercury, Illiterate Magazine, DailyServing.com, as well as publications in Toronto, Berlin, Tokyo, and London. He received a 2009 Minnesota Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, and has been featured on MN Original and interviewed by PBS. His next project is a solo exhibition at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis in the fall of 2012.
Andrew Felicilda
Andrew Felicilda is a Minneapolis based independent writer and director. He has a degree in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Allison Herrera
Allison Herrera is a participant in Open Field and former Program Manager for Public and Community Programs at Walker Art Center.
Aaron Layman
Aaron Layman is a beer buyer and freelance writer who resides in southwestern Virginia. He is a graduate of Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Ana Lois-Borzi
Ana Lois-Borzi is an artist who lives and works in the Twin Cities. She teaches in the Graduate Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her work has been featured in galleries throughout the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation, Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, and Minnesota State Arts Board.
Art Of This
From 2005-2010, Art of This functioned as an artist-run gallery and project space that exhibited the work of emerging and underrepresented artists from the local area and beyond. AOT became a leading alternative and independent art space in the Twin Cities through its artist-centric approach. Currently, AOT and its co-directors, John Marks and David Petersen, uphold its mission to serve as a platform for artists. The organization sponsors the Tuesday Music Series, has participated in site and time-specific projects, and has created a new website to support a community of rigorous and forward-thinking artists who share in AOT’s philosophy. AOT also continues to program its annual One Nighter Series. The 2011 One Nighter will be operated by emerging artists and recent MCAD graduates Kelly Filreis, Alyson Coward, Jenny Moxley, Katy Vonk, and AJ Warnick.
Andy Sturdevant
Andy Sturdevant is an artist, writer and arts administrator living in South Minneapolis. He has written about art, history, and culture for a variety of Twin Cities-based publications and websites, including mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Art Review and Preview!, Mpls. St. Paul, and heavytable.com. His essays have also appeared in publications of the Walker Art Center and the Jerome Foundation. Andy writes a weekly column on arts and visual culture in Minneapolis-St. Paul for MinnPost.
Anna Tahinci
Anna Tahinci is an art historian, teacher, critic, and curator. She studied History and Archaeology in Greece, Art History and Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne (Ph.D.), and Museum Studies at the Ecole du Louvre. In 2004 she co-curated the sculpture exhibition that was organized in Athens for the Olympic Games. She has worked at the Musée Rodin, the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre and the Harvard Art Museum. She has taught at Boston University Paris, at the University of Minnesota, and at Macalester College. Currently, she is an adjunct professor in the Liberal Arts department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Aaron Van Dyke
Aaron Van Dyke is just another desperate artist living, teaching and working in Minneapolis.
Bryan Clendenen
Bryan Clendenen's interest in graphic design stems from the ability of text and image to co-produce creative solutions for varying problems. Over the years he has worked as a production artist, a freelance designer and been an art director in an agency setting. Having received his BFA in graphic design from Auburn University in 2003, he is currently pursuing an MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he looks to explore image, type, and sound as time-based narratives projected within different environments.
Cecilia Aldarondo
Cecilia Aldarondo is a PhD Candidate in the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She also holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London. In her art practice and research, she explores the relationship between memory, materiality, and performance.
Chris Atkins
Christopher Atkins is Coordinator of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Callie Clark-Wiren
Callie Clark-Wiren is an arts and cultural historian and critic, who lives and works in the Twin Cities. She earned her Master's degree at the University of London in Cultural Memory. Her research focuses on how the experience of looking at art develops the viewer's personal and cultural identity. Her research is being published nationally and internationally through publications from the Carl Jung Institute and periodicals such as Queen: Journal of Rhetoric. She is also a photographer.
Charisse Gendron
Charisse Gendron is a poet, blogger, and cinephile. She is the author of the blog Smoke~~ (http://charissegendron.blogspot.com/) and the chapbooks Mopes, designed by Georgia Greeley; Louvres, designed by Carla Januska; and Nonsets, illustrated by Ellen Sandhaus.
Wilbur "Chip" Schilling
Schilling is the artist, designer, printer, illustrator, bookbinder, and publisher at Indulgence Press. He often collaborates with other artists and writers. He began his career as a photographer and photographic illustration plays a key role in his art work. (from indulgencepress.com)
Christina Schmid
Christina Schmid is a writer, teacher, editor, and critic, who lives and works in the Twin Cities. After completing a Magister degree at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 2005. She is an Assistant Professor in the department of Liberal Arts at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul and an occasional adjunct instructor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her arts writing has been published locally and nationally, in magazines such as Flash Art and afterimage.
Colleen Sheehy
Colleen Sheehy is Director of Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, where she is curating an exhibition of contemporary art called New Taxidermy, opening in 2012. She, Mark Dion, and eight University of Minnesota students co-curated the exhibition, Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities for the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis (2001). She edited and wrote an essay for the book on that project, Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Sheehy holds a Ph.D. in American studies. Photograph by Xavier Tavera.
Collier White
Collier White is a filmmaker who lives in Minneapolis. A graduate of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, he went on to study filmmaking in Denmark at the European Film College. Since founding Object Magazine, White bounced around as an itinerant freelance writer before founding Quodlibetica with Christina Schmid.
Dia Felix
Dia Felix is a private intellectual and a good friend to have, and has lived in San Francisco since 1996.
David Lefkowitz
David Lefkowitz is a practicing artist as well as an Associate Professor of Art at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he teaches painting, drawing and seminars on critical issues in contemporary art.
Diane Mullin
Diane Mullin is Associate Curator at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. Her curatorial and scholarly work focuses on modern and contemporary art and culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Washington University in St. Louis.
Ed Charbonneau
As a high school student, Ed began painting commissioned murals for businesses and private residences in St. Paul. After traveling several seasons in Alaska, he returned to art school, received a BFA from the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has also worked as an artistic consultant on large-scale projects with several non-profit organizations, grade schools and high schools, as well as youth groups. His most recent ongoing project involves painting the entire exterior of Fat Lorenzo’s restaurant in South Minneapolis. Additionally, Ed has exhibited his work regionally and maintains a studio in St. Paul. To view Ed’s artwork online, please visit: www.moboxo.com
Emily Atchison
Emily Atchison is an interdisciplinary artist, who lives and works in Minneapolis. She earned her undergraduate degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in December of 2009 and co-curates They Won't Find Us Here gallery.
Georgia Greeley
Greeley is an artist and writer who lives and works in Saint Paul. Her passion for combining words and images frequently shows up as fine press broadsides or handmade artist’s books.
Greta McLain
Greta McLain is a dynamic community muralist and mosaic artist. She has painted and mosaic murals in several Twin Cities locations and is internationally known with murals in Argentina, and work in Mexico, California and Philadelphia. McLain was the featured “Artist We Love” in March 2009 Metro Magazine and was awarded 'El Fuerte de Barragan ' for Artistic and Community Excellence for the mural Construyendo el Futuro with artist Melina Slobodian in December 2009, Ensenada, Argentina. She is a recent fellow in the Creative Community Leadership Institute 2010-11, and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
George Slade
The writer, a native Minnesotan and long-term photography historian, recently accepted a position as curator and programs manager at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston . He maintains re:photographica, a blog about matters photographic . In addition to his essay on David Goldes, Slade's photographs accompany Kristin Makholm's "Five Memos on a New Museum."
Graeme Stout
Graeme Stout earned his doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Minnesota in 2006 and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His teaching and research focus on the nature, deployment and transformation of power in the modern age and the relationship of aesthetic form to social consciousness. His current book project studies the cultural legacy of terrorism in Italy and Germany from the late 1960s to the present day.
Jen Caruso
Dr. Jennifer (Jen) Caruso, Ph.D. in comparative literature, with an emphasis on European modernism and critical theory. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. From 2007-11, Jen Caruso taught at Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where she was assistant professor of English and department chair of Cultural, Media, and Gender Studies. Dr. Caruso has current research and writing projects on global economic collapse, consumer culture and fashion, 9/11 themes in literature and film, and "future-present" science fiction.
Jan Estep
Jan Estep is an artist and writer with an expanded creative practice. Her research focuses on the relationship between art and language, thought and its material expression, and humans and the natural landscape. She has her PhD in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA in studio arts from the University of Illinois in Chicago. Estep has been the recipient of fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations, the Stanford Humanities Center, and in December 2009 she was awarded a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for short-form writing. Estep is currently an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota.
Jonathan Kaiser
Jonathan Kaiser thinks a lot, writes a little, and engages in a variety of impractical activities that can best be described as art. He is a sometimes-member of the band Dark Dark Dark and the art collective The Miss Rockaway Armada. He received an MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2011. He bakes bread more often than is really necessary, and no he is not on tour right now, thank you very much.
Juliet Patterson
Juliet Patterson’s first book, The Truant Lover, was a selected by Jean Valentine as the 2004 winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and was a finalist for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines including 26, American Letters & Commentary, Indiana Review, Knockout, New Orleans Review, Pebble Lake Review, Redivider, Swerve, Water~Stone Review, and Verse.
Jake Ramberg
Jake Ramberg is a freelance illustrator and a graduate of the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul where he began writing for Quodlibetica. His obsession for art is older than Justin Bieber.
Jonathan Thomas
Jonathan Thomas is a two-time alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program, and is currently completing a PhD in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at The University of Minnesota. In addition to exhibiting artworks, he has contributed writings to October, Art Journal, caa.reviews, and Contemporary Literary Criticism.
Jonathon Wells
Jonathon Wells is trained as both a fine art photographer and as a geologist, which has enabled him to create photomontages with both surface and subsurface views. In his images, he searches for an interplay between the built environment and the geologic foundation below.
Jody Williams
Jody Williams publishes artist’s books under the imprint Flying Paper Press. She has exhibited her work, presented lectures, and taught classes and workshops across the United States and in Europe. In 2008 she received the inaugural Minnesota Book Artist Award. Photo by Jim Dryden.
Kristin Makholm
Kristin Makholm is an art historian and curator who recently took over as executive director of the Minnesota Museum of American Art in St. Paul. She has a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to the MMAA job, she was director of exhibitions and galleries at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and curator of prints and drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Lightsey Darst
Originally from Tallahassee, Lightsey Darst writes, dances, writes about dance and other arts, and teaches in Minneapolis. You can find her poetic work in Find the Girl (Coffee House, 2010), in Gulf Coast, Spork, and Triquarterly Online, and forthcoming in Diagram and Typo; her criticism is online at mnartists.org and Bookslut, among other publications.
Lauren DeLand
Lauren DeLand is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, with a concentration in Contemporary Art and Critical Theory. Her dissertation focuses on contemporary American male artists who utilize their own bodies as an erotic subject in their work, and examines the cultural prohibitions that make such dispatches a rare phenomenon. Before earning her MA at the University of Minnesota, she received a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute, and contributed regularly to the arts and cultural magazine _Review_.
Lacey Prpic Hedtke
Lacey Prpic Hedtke is an antiquated photographer, teacher, grant writer, dog lover, hula hooper, fun haver, radical and zine librarian, and sweet maker. She’s organizing the Twin Cities Zinefest this year, recently organized Constellation, and just made the jump from being a renter to Powderhorn homeowner. She has a BFA in photography from the Art Institute of Boston and an MLIS from St. Catherine University.
Lea Sorrentino
Lea D. Sorrentino is an artist, writer, and well wisher. She received her BFA from Temple University, Tyler School of Art. Hailing from Philadelphia she moved to Minneapolis to pursue a Masters degree in Fine Art and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Marsha Olson
Marsha Olson is an art historian and a teacher. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, focusing on the art of South Asia. She has taught at several colleges and universities in the Twin Cities area. She is currently an adjunct instructor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Mason Riddle
Twin Cities based writer/curator Mason Riddle covers the visual arts, architecture and design. Her work has been published in the Arts Magazine, Architecture MN, Dwell, Architectural Record, Artforum, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Public Art Review, Sculpture Magazine, Stroll and Rain Taxi, among others. She is the former director of the MN Percent for Art in Public Places program, The Goldstein Museum of Design, Two Rivers Gallery, and visual arts curator of Intermedia Arts MN.
Miranda Trimmier
Miranda Trimmier is a recluse-in-training and is holed up somewhere in Minneapolis.
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs is an art historian, critic and independent curator. Her writing appears in Artforum International, Art Papers, Art on Paper, History of Photography, Public Art Review, Sense and Society and online at mnartists.org. She was named "Best Art Critic" of 2008 by Twin Cities-based City Pages. Follow her blog Scene Unseen at http://artsceneunseen.wordpress.com.
Paulette Myers-Rich
Paulette Myers-Rich is an artist and has made photography based artists’ books for 25 years. She is the recipient of the 2009 Minnesota Book Artist Award.
Rene Meyer-Grimberg
Rene Meyer-Grimberg moved to St. Paul eleven years ago after living in Germany for many years. She has made films, produced and acted in theater, and taught art, languages, art history, and culture. She has an advanced degree in Art History, follows the art scene, and writes musings about film.
Rachel Perlmeter
Rachel Perlmeter is a crossmedia artist working in the interstitial spaces between theatre, dance, sound, and installation art. Her writings for the stage have been developed and supported by the Playwrights' Center and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis; Soho Think Tank’s Sixth Floor Series and Mabou Mines’ Suite artist residency program in New York; the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts and Lost Nation Theater in Vermont; and the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a Master's in Theatre History and Criticism and was the recipient of two Foreign Language and Area Studies grants for her interdisciplinary work on Russian theatre, a Social Sciences Research Council grant for excellence in the humanities, and a Morton Brown Scholarship. She has been a Fulbright artist and a TCG/International Theatre Institute fellow working with experimental theatres in Russia and has just been awarded an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board as well as a Jerome Foundation mentorship at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.
Regula Russelle
Regula Russelle has been making books on her own and with others since the mid 1990s. The central currents in her work are the deep questions in her life: How do we shape a day, a week, our communal life, the way of the city, and the larger word beyond?
Susan Armington
Susan Armington is a Minneapolis-based artist, whose life is full of maps and Talking Suitcases. She leads projects in schools and communities across the state, focusing on deep talk in a diverse world through art. She loves to eat, drink…and dream.
Sheila Dickinson
Sheila Dickinson is an art historian, teacher and art critic based in the Twin Cities. Originally from St. Paul, she was an expat for ten years in Ireland, where she was an art critic for Circa Art Magazine from 2001-2006 and wrote her doctorate on contemporary Irish art in the Art History Department at University College Dublin. She is currently an adjunct professor in the Liberal Arts Department at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the College of Visual Arts.
Shannon Gilley
Gilley's 3D animation career started in 1993 at Windlight Studios, where he worked on dozens of commercials, Disney’s three-time Emmy winning children’s show Rolie Polie Olie, and the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater animated short film “Softy Puffs.” After leaving Windlight, he managed local projects for the Minnesota Lottery and KARE-11, among others. Gilley has also taught animation since 1999, including eight years at The Art Institutes International Minnesota. He is currently pursuing an MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Sarah Peters
Sarah Peters is Open Field Curator and the former Associate Director of Public Programs in the Education and Community Programs Department at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Sarah Schultz
Sarah Schultz is Open Field Curator and Director of Education and Community Programs at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Scott Stulen
Scott Stulen is Open Field Curator, the Project Director for mnartists.org at the Walker Art Center, and the Director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers. He is also an independent curator, DJ, writer and exhibiting visual artist.
Stephanie Xenos
Stephanie Xenos lives in Saint Paul with her family. She writes about the visual arts for Mpls/St Paul magazine and mnartists.org. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Arts and Cultural Leadership at the University of Minnesota.
Teresa Ballard
Teresa Ballard’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Drunken Boat, Comstock Review, Paumanok Review, Tryst, Three Candles, as well as other literary journals. In December of 2005 she was chosen by the Mid-American Review as Editor’s Choice for The James Wright Poetry Award. She has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Award.
Thomas O. Haakenson
Thomas O. Haakenson is Chair and Associate Professor Arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He completed his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature with a dissertation on the aesthetics of the grotesque. He has published in Cabinet, New German Critique, The Rutgers Art Review, and the anthologies Legacies of Modernism and Memorialization in Germany Since 1945. He has received fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Social Science Research Council, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. (PhD and MA, University of Minnesota, 2006, 1999; BA, Drake University, 1995)
Tucker Hollingsworth
Tucker is a mostly self-taught photographer who currently lives and works in Minneapolis.
Tom Westbrook
Tom Westbrook is a teacher, artist, designer, and craftsman. He studied Art History and Studio Arts at the University of Minnesota and after a career in Arts Administration, running galleries and working at the Walker Art Center, he returned to the University of Minnesota to study Architecture. He has practiced at Shelter Architecture and Sala Architects and worked as Assistant Editor for arq (architectural research quarterly) from Cambridge University Press. Currently he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota where his teaching has been focused in humanitarian and sustainable design, a Lecturer at the College of Visual Art where he teaches a visual geometry class, and has taught at Augsburg College, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Art Institutes Minnesota.
Vadim Gershman
Vadim Gershman is a designer, artist, writer, and amateur kite runner. He curates and designs Glitch - a journal of poetry, prose, art, and all things glitch. His work has been featured in Print Magazine on multiple occasions, and he often enjoys attention from art/design blogs and other online publications. Vadim is currently in the process of pursuing his MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Bill Wittenbreer
Bill Wittenbreer is a librarian at Augsburg College. He is also a trustee of the Minnesota Museum of American Art. He has graduate degrees in Public History and Library work and is the author of several articles on Minnesota artists and other topics in Minnesota history.
Wing Young Huie
Duluth native Wing Young Huie’s photographs document the changing cultural landscape of Minnesota. Focusing on neighborhoods in transition, he’s created major public photography exhibitions that have spanned from Lake Street in Minneapolis to St. Paul’s Frogtown neighborhood, and most recently a 6 mile stretch of University Avenue.