Susan Fiene



RESUME




EDUCATION





M.F.A. 1972

THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, Michigan



Printmaking, Ceramic Sculpture





B.F.A. 1968

VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, Richmond, Virginia



Fine Arts, Education







TEACHING EXPERIENCE





1986-1992

CARLETON COLLEGE, Northfield, Minnesota



Assistant Professor





1984-1985

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota



Instructor





1983-1984

MOORHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY, Moorhead, Minnesota



Assistant Professor





1979-1982

MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Minnesota



Assistant Professor







GRANTS





1996

MINNESOTA STATE ARTS BOARD ARTISTS  FELLOWSHIP





1994

COMPASS COMMUNITY PROGRAM IN THE ARTS, St. Paul, MN





1992-1993

THE BUSH FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR ARTISTS



The Bush Foundation, Saint Paul, Minnesota





1989-1990

McKNIGHT FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR VISUAL ARTISTS



Saint Paul, Minnesota





1988

Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Travel /study Grant



The Jerome, General Mills, & Dayton-Hudson  Foundations





1978-1979

The Bush Foundation Fellowship for Artists



The Bush Foundation:  Saint Paul, Minnesota





1979

MINNESOTA State Arts Board Project Grant





1979

METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL GRANT







SELECTED COMMISSIONS





2005

Redesign of Central/Broadway Bridge railing



Minneapolis Arts Commission





2002

Sculpture commission, Student Services  Building,



Iowa State University, Ames Iowa





2001

Sculpture commission, Ramsey County Juvenile Justice Center,



Saint Paul Minnesota





1997

Public Art Saint Paul



Skyline Towers Children's Garden. Saint Paul, Minnesota





1996-1998

Minnesota Percent For Art In Public Places Program



Fort Snelling Interpretive Center. Bloomington, Minnesota





1993-1996

Minneapolis Arts Commission Gateways Project



Powderhorn Park Neighborhood. Minneapolis, Minnesota





1993

Minneapolis Arts Commission Gateways Project



Northeast Neighborhood. Minneapolis, Minnesota





1987

Forecast Public ArtSpace Productions, Saint. Paul, Minnesota



Environmental sculpture installation award





1980

Forecast Public ArtSpace Productions, Minneapolis, Minnesota



Environmental sculpture installation award





1979

Commission award for print in "A Portfolio of Fifteen"



Norwest Banks, Minneapolis, Minnesota







SELECTED EXHIBITIONS





2004

The Art of Democracy: Tools of Persuasion



Minneapolis Art Institute





1996

"7 Installations At The Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge"



Bloomington, Minnesota





1994

"Art and Science, Method and Metaphor", Moorhead State University,





1992

"Woodswork"; Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN





1991

"Woodswork"; installation in wilderness area near Grantsburg, Wisconsin





1990

"Eight McKnight Winners"



Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Minneapolis, Minnesota





-

Eight McKnight Winners, regional traveling exhibition.








1989

"National Peace Garden Design Competition"



The National Building Museum, Washington, DC.





-

"Public Art Possibilities", Minneapolis College of Art and Design





1988

"Public Art Design Proposals", Minneapolis Arts  Commission



Minneapolis City Hall





-

"The Landscape And The Land",  two person exhibition



St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota





1987

"Sculpture '87",  Saint Paul Riverfront, Saint Paul, Minnesota





1986

"MAEP 10th Anniversary Exhibition"



Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1985

Three-Person Faculty Exhibition



Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1984

Installation:  University Gallery



Moorhead State University:  Moorhead, Minnesota





1983

"Projects and Proposals"



Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1982

Environmental Sculpture Conference, three-person exhibition



St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota





1980

Environmental Art and Sculpture Competition



Installation award, Minneapolis Riverfront, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1979

"Two Installations"



Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1979

"Insitu"



A series of three installations at Landmark Center, St. Paul, Minnesota





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"A Portfolio of Fifteen,"



Norwest Banks, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1977

"Spaces Real/Spaces Implied", two-person exhibition



Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota





1976

"Artists Choose: Artists"



Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota





1975

"Women in Clay",  The Women's Building,



Los Angeles, California





1972

"Women Working in the Midwest", Illinois State University



DeKalb, Illinois







AWARDS





1994

SAINT PAUL MAYOR'S DESIGN FORUM AWARD





1993

CUE  AWARD  -   For design and esthetic excellence



Minneapolis, Minnesota





1972

PURCHASE AWARD  -   Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois







SELECTED COLLECTIONS






Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota






Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota






General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan






The Pillsbury Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota






Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood, Minneapolis, Minnesota






Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota






Tweed Museum, Duluth, Minnesota






Norwest National Bank, Minneapolis, Minnesota






Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, Minnesota



St. Johns University, Collegeville, Minnesota






Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota






Hennepin County Public Library, Richfield, Minnesota







TRAVEL





2013-2015

Summer travel to Scotland to study prehistoric habitation





2008-2012

Summer travel to the Dordogne Region of France to study





1991

Studied traditional gardens in China - imperial gardens in



Shanghai, Beijing, and Xi'an and the private gardens of the



West Lake area of Hangzhou and Suzhou.






Studied traditional Zen gardens of Kyoto and Tokyo and



contemporary Japanese cityscapes and public art.





1988

Studied Renaissance and eighteenth century gardens of Italy, France and England and the modern French garden of Vilette.





1985

Photographed Mayan architecture of Yucatan and Chiapas.





1984

Studied late Medieval landscape paintings and architecture of Italian City States.





1982

Photographed Architecture of Anasazi culture of American southwest desert.





1977

Photographed classic and pre classic architecture of Greece.







SELECTED PUBLICATIONS






Art in America. "Midwest Art: A Special Report".



Sarah McFadden, 67.4 1979, pp.59-61.






Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine. "Portable Vistas: Personal Landscapes”



Alan Robertson, 8.7 July 1980 pp 65-68.






Celebrate Northeast! Coloring book to accompany the

Northeast public art project Susan Fiene, 1994.







COMMUNITY SERVICE





1993 - 1996

Powderhorn Neighborhood Kid's Art



Raised funding for and taught iron casting





1994- 1996

Organized group of gardening volunteers to





1994

Published Celebrate Northeast! a guide to





1990-1992

Minnesota State Arts Board Percent for Art Selection



Committee





1988

Public Art Saint Paul, Design Leadership Group





1981

Member: Mayors' Arts Advisory Committee



Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota





1973-1979

Founding Member: Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, and



WARM: A Women's Collective Art Space, Minneapolis,



Minnesota





1976-1978

Elected Member: Artists' Panel of the Minnesota Artists'



Exhibition Program, Minneapolis Institute of Arts