Ruthann Godollei
DeWitt Wallace Professor of Art
Art & Art History Department

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

Teaching Printmaking, Printmaking II (intaglio, relief, lithography, screenprint, letterpress, digital prints) and Senior Seminar. Taught: Word., Dissent, 2-D Design, Women in Art (cross-listed in Women's Sexuality and Gender Studies), Political Art (cross-listed in Political Science) Images in Consumer Society (cross-listed in Sociology), and Performance & Installation Art. BFA, Indiana University, Bloomington; MFA University of Minnesota, Mpls.

Work in Collections: Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul MN. KUMU, National Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia. National Museum of Art, Poznan~, Poland. Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England, Bristol, UK. Rutgers University, Camden, NJ. Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO. Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium. Proyecto'ace Print Collection, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Penang State Museum and Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia. Chhaap Baroda Printmaking Studio. Baroda, Gujarat, India. Cork Printmakers Special Collection, Cork, Ireland. Minneapolis Family Housing Fund, Minneapolis, MN. Denver Art Museum,The Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Dekalb, IL. Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN. Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN and more.

My book on DIY printmaking has the amusingly long title of "How to Create Your Own Gig Posters, Band T-shirts, Album Covers, & Stickers, Screenprinting, Photocopy Art, Mixed Media Collage and Other Guerilla Poster Styles. Voyageur Press, 2013, Mpls.
Available at amazon.com and independent bookstores.

More projects: 2016 East Coast Screenprint Biennial, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY. Delta National Small Prints Exhibit, Bradbury Art Museum, AK State U.,2016. Juror's Choice award, Stand Out Prints, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Mpls. 2016. Re-Riding History, curated by Profs Hitchcock, Arthur and Begaye, at All My Relations Gallery Mpls. 2016, to Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, WI, Feb. 2017. Co-Curator, with Emily Arthur, Wondrous Transformation & Peculiar Nourishment, an exchange portfolio amongst women printers in honor of Maria Sibylla Merian, for SGCI Portland, 2016. 9th Biennale Int'l d'Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivi`eres (BIECTR), Que'bec, Canada, June 2015. Curator, Read the Fine Print, an exhibit of micro-printing, the Smallest Museum in St. Paul, (SMSP), Aug. 2015. Printwork, AIR gallery, Philadelphia 2014. Posada Centenario, La Calaca, homage to JG Posada traveled to Hong Kong, Australia, Spain and Pakistan in 2014. Live printing team, Printers' Local 403, Northern Spark Festival 2014 and Print Central Station at Northern Spark, 2013. Curator, contemporary printmakers show, 801 Gallery, Mpls. 2013. Aug. 2011, El Milagro,a group exhibit at Intermedia Arts, Mpls. The New York Society of Etchers show, Democracy, Sacred Gallery, NYC, 2012. La Calaca, and II La Calaca. Clemson juried national print exhibit, 2011. Guest artist, NIU, Dekalb, IL, 2012. International print exchange "Tower of Babel, for Impact 6 conference, Bristol, UK, 2009. Headshotsportfolio, MAPC, U of MN, 2010. 2nd International Penang Print Juried Exhibition, Malaysia, 2010. Macedonian Printmaking Triennial 2009. 2-person exhibit, MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2008. 7-time resident artist, Frans Masereel Centrum for printmaking, Belgium. International Triennial of Printmaking, KUMU Museum,Tallinn, Estonia, 2007. International print exchange portfolios, "Upstream/Downstream" for the SGC conference in Milwaukee, 2013, "Time Machine," Impact 5 conferenece in Estonia, 2007, acquired for the permanent collection of KUMU museum. We're Not From Here: Emigrés, Aliens and Utopians for the Impact 4 conference. "Moving Targets" project in Berlin, Germany and Poznan, Poland. I joined numerous artists in protesting the original Iraq war. Shock & Awe. "freedom::response", Roosevelt University, Chicago, the 2008 Monotype Guild of New England juried national exhibit (Honorable Mention prize), 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., (purchase prize). I was twice commissioned to make prints on the subjects of homelessness for the Minneapolis Family Housing Fund. Its Home Sweet Home toured to the Walker Art Center, Minnesota State Capitol, etc.. and Home Sweet Home Again opened at Intermedia Arts, Mpls., 2005. Quality Control, MAEP gallery of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2000.

I made a mobile camera obscura out of a 911mm cartographer's lens from a WWII B52 bomber mounted on my ancient Volvo.
Click here to see my portfolio of Camera Obscura photos taken with that lens.

Another area of interest is Art Cars. See a 2020 TPT Original segment on Pandemic popup parades.
Road Show: Art Cars and the Museum of the Streets by Eric Dregni and Ruthann Godollei is available at Barnes & Noble, amazon.com and Indie bookstores. The book had a positive reception in the Bloomsbury Review, 2010. I have made many art vehicles and attended and sponsored art car exhibits and symposia, locally, nationally and internationally. My hand stenciled 1984 Volvo was part of the world premiere of Car Horn Fanfare by St. Paul composer Philip Blackburn, premiered at the Northern Spark festival, St. Paul, 2011. I am a cocreator of Art Cars on Ice, the world's only Art Car Parade across a frozen lake. This event is often held in conjunction with the Art Shanty Projects.

All artwork copyright of the artist. Use by permission only.