Ruthann Godollei
Professor of Art, Chair, 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, computer/photo prints), 2-Dimensional Design, and Senior Seminar at Macalester College. She has taught 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.

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Artist's statement: I am currently at work on an extended series of cultural commentaries, primarily in printmaking media. I have shown across the country, incorporating political and social commentary in these pieces. In July, 2007, I again had a residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum for printmaking in Kasterlee, Belgium. I was the organizer of an international print exhange portfolio, "We're Not From Here: Emigrés, Aliens and Utopians" for the Impact 4 conference and a participant in the "Moving Targets" project in Berlin, Germany and Poznan, Poland in Sept., 2005. The portfolio was accepted for the permanent collection of the National Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland. I had 2 monoprints in 'The HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing', at the Weisman Art Museum, Mpls., MN, Spring, 2006. I have been working with 'Flash' to animate my prints and had a video short at Zone Gallery in Kansas City in March, 2007. I had work in a juried national MAPC show at Murray State University in KY, in Sept. 2007, called 'Wicked and Wise.' I was the organizer of an international print exhange portfolio titled "Time Machine," for the Impact 5 conferenece in Estonia, October 2007. Six of my prints were accepted for the International Triennial of Printmaking in Tallinn, Estonia, for October, 2007. The exhibit was held at the KUMU museum there and the portfolio was acquired for their permanent collection.

In 2000 I was in a 4-woman show titled "Quality Control" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. My work has been included in such juried national exhibits as "freedom::response" at Roosevelt University, Chicago, "Pressed and Pulled X" in Georgia, 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.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.
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Another area of interest is Art Cars.
This burgeoning art form puts works of art on wheels and into the public sphere. 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 a contract with Speck Press to coauthor a book, "Art Cars, Museum of the Streets," due out in Fall 2008.

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.