Advisory Panel Nominees

From Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program

Voting is complete! Below are the members of the new Advisory Panel.

Irve Dell

I have been an artist and art educator in this community for 30 years. I have exhibited in the MAEP space twice and been an artist panel member. I have faithfully attended annual meetings over the years. My experience in academia (19 years a professor of art at St. Olaf College and two-time department chair) has prepared me well for negotiations with "administrations". I strongly support finding a way foreward to preserve the MAEP as a thriving and unique exhibition program.

Carole Fisher

Since we got a collective foot in the door in 1975, I have been a participant in the MAEP with 2 solo exhibitions, 2 foot in the door exhibitions, twice as a panel member, including the MAEP 10th Anniversary Exhibition. As Stewart Turnquist wrote in a 1984 MAEP catalogue Carole Fisher …she was persistent. So 33 years, hence, I am self-nominating to serve with a dynamic and diverse community of artists on the MAEP Advisory Panel at a challenging time.

Community experience over the past forty years includes, the Minneapolis City Arts Commission and a founding member of the Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM). At the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, teaching + chairing the Visual Studies, Fine Arts Departments, directing the Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program, since 1999 director of the Master of Fine Arts Program—negotiation, participation, patience and, yes, persistence have been learned.

My experience as a multi-media artist working primarily with issue-driven installations include exhibitions from Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy, to the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum, the Women’s Building in Los Angeles.

Wayne Potratz

Sculptor Wayne Potratz has been actively involved with the MAEP as both an artist and panelist for 31 years. He has been a professor of art at the University of Minnesota since 1969 and is the only artist ever named a Scholar of the College there. He was chair of the Department of Art three times (12 years), has served on numerous University-wide committees, and is the founder of the U of M Iron Pour. He also is a co-founder of the International Conference of Contemporary Cast Iron and has served on the board of Interact Minnesota, a center for artists with disabilities. Wayne has studied, exhibited, and been collected widely in Japan, South Korea, China, India, Dubai, Cuba, Brazil, Canada, and throughout Europe and the United States.

Jim Tanner

I have been active in the art community for the past forty years. I taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato for thirty five years. I served on the MAEP panel three times and had two exhibitions. I served on the boards of the American Craft Council, Penland School of Crafts and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (president for two years). Grants received include two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, McKnight Foundation Fellowship and two Minnesota State Arts Board fellowships.

I can be effective in helping to resolve the issues surrounding the structural integrity of the MAEP, its independence, and partnership with the MIA.