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Artist Statement:
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Artist Exhibitions:
Recent exhibits and
activities:
Como Zoo and Conservatory
Holiday Exhibit and Sale -
December 2 - 10, 2006
Saint Paul's Golden Bloom
Awards - Monday, January 22,
2007 - Co-host
Guest Speaker - Minnesota
Watercolor Society - February
15, 2007
"Brush To Paper" - The
Minnesota Watercolor Society
Fall Exhibition
October 4- October 28, 2006
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Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Mark Granlund Biography:
| Biographical information for Mark Granlund can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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43
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Male
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Single
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| Children |
1
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Nature |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I want to connect to people by expressing my view of the world and I use art to process my experience. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Mr. Granlund's artwork focuses on landscapes and botanicals in several mediums; watercolor, oil paint and drawing. He has exhibited his work about the environment in New York City and throughout the upper Midwest.
Mr. Granlund received his Masters degree in painting and drawing from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York in 1990.
In 2001, Mr. Granlund established the Botanical Arts and Illustration Certification program at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. This program provides botanical arts courses in which students can receive certification and college credit through Concordia University, Saint Paul, MN. Mr. Granlund continues to instruct in this program, teaching beginning drawing, beginning watercolor, botanicals in pencil, oil and watercolor, and animal coverings in watercolor.
From 1994 to 2003 Mr. Granlund was the Arts Program Manager at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. In this capacity he coordinated art classes and programs for adults and children and managed public art projects at the zoo and conservatory.
Mr. Granlund has taught undergraduate art classes at Brooklyn College, NY, and at Bethel College, St. Paul, MN. He taught extension courses and has been on staff at Vermont Studio Colony in Johnson, VT.
For a job, Mr. Granlund oversees the public gardens of Saint Paul, MN. This includes 300 garden beds, 150 planters and 500 hanging baskets.
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