Ruthann Godollei
Professor of Art, Art Department

Macalester College Art Department
1600 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, Minnesota 55105 USA
651 696-6229
godollei@macalester.edu

Ruthann Godollei teaches Printmaking, Advanced Printmaking (intaglio, relief, lithography, screenprint,
handset type, digital/photo prints) and Senior Seminar at Macalester College. She has taught 2-Dimensional Design, Women in Art (cross-listed with Women's and Gender Studies), Political Art (cross-listed with Political Science) Images in Consumer Society (cross-listed with Sociology), and Performance and Installation Art. She received a BFA degree from Indiana University, Bloomington and an MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Artist's statement: I am currently at work on an extended series of cultural critiques, primarily in printmaking and drawing media. I have exhibited internationally, incorporating political and social commentary in these pieces. Link to a portfolio of prints. I was in a 2-person exhibit at the MAEP Gallery of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Fall 2008. Link to a review. In July, 2008, I again had a residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum for printmaking in Belgium. I had work in the MN juried national Print Biennial, Oct. 2008. I have been animating my prints and exhibited them at Zone Gallery in Kansas City in March, 2007. I organized an international print exhange portfolio "Tower of Babel," for the Impact 6 conferenece in Bristol, October 2009. Six of my prints were in the International Triennial of Printmaking, Tallinn, Estonia, 2007. The exhibit was held at KUMU museum. Link to Inkteraction, International Printmakers website.

Another area of interest is Art Cars.
This burgeoning art form puts works of art on wheels and into the public sphere. Road Show: Art Cars and the Museum of the Streets
by Eric Dregni and Ruthann Godollei is now in stock for $19.00. Go to Amazon.com, type in my last name (Godollei) and it should come up.
It is available at Barnes & Noble, (use the title, “Road Show” to find it) and local Indie bookstores such as Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis. I have made and driven numerous art vehicles and have attended and sponsored many art car exhibitions and symposia, locally, nationally and internationally.

I have organized several international print exhange portfolios, "Time Machine," for the Impact 5 conferenece in Estonia, October 2007 ( the portfolio was acquired for the permanent collection of KUMU museum ) and "We're Not From Here: Emigrés, Aliens and Utopians" for the Impact 4 conference and was a participant in the "Moving Targets" project in Berlin, Germany and Poznan, Poland in Sept., 2005. The portfolio is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland. My work has been included in such juried national exhibits as "freedom::response" at Roosevelt University, Chicago, "Pressed and Pulled X" in Georgia, the 2008 Monotype Guild of New England's juried national exhibit (Honorable Mention prize), the Wills Creek Survey in Maryland (Creativity in Graphic Arts award), "Union Images 2000", a show on labor themes at the Chicago Cultural Center (Special Recognition Award) and the Rutgers National '96, Works on Paper competition, Camden, N. J., (awarded a purchase prize). I was twice commissioned to make prints on the subjects of homelessness and affordable housing for the Minneapolis Family Housing Fund. The group show, Home Sweet Home toured to the Walker Art Center, Minnesota State Capitol, etc.. "Home Sweet Home Again" opened at Intermedia Arts, Mpls., Jan., 2005. My work was shown in "Interplay" at the University of Minnesota, Oct. 2004. A solo show titled "Big Smug & Other Exports" was held in Feb., 2005 at St. Cloud State University. In 2000 I was in a 4-woman show titled "Quality Control" at the MAEP gallery of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. My prints can be found in collections such as the National Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland, the Royal Museum of Fine Art in Antwerp, Belgium, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Rutgers University, Southwest State University, the National University Library in Rijek, Croatia, KUMU National Art Museum of Estonia and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota.
Link to a review.

Left: The Green Gear Volvo; hand-stenciled, screenprinted with etched tiny gears in the side rear windows.

Right: Poster from a lecture I gave on art cars in Bratislava, Slovak Republic, Nov., 1997.
You can see my current art car at the annual Art Car Parade sponsored by Intermedia Arts on July 22rd
in Minneapolis each summer. See the MARV art car website for more photos.
Click here for a video clip of Art Cars on Ice 3, 2005.