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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Jan Estep
Jan Estep is an artist, writer, and trained philosopher. She is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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 Quodlibetica's first ever intern. He is a senior at the College of Visual Arts. We're excited to work with him!
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.
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.
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. An Associate Professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, she was named "Best Art Critic" of 2008 by Twin Cities-based City Pages.
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.
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.
Tom 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)
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.