Artist Information

Wendell H. Arneson

Contemporary
United States
b. b. 1946
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Arneson was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1946. He received his BA from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, in 1968, before going on to get his Art Education Certificate from the University of Wisconsin in 1970. After receiving his MFA from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1978, Arneson went to work as a Professor at St. Olaf College with a specialization in painting, drawing, and color design. In 1994, Arneson studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts in New Mexico with Nathan Oliveira, and again in 1995 with Gregory Amenoff. Arneson finished out his teaching career at St. Olaf in 2015, and currently continues to work as an active artist.

Madison Duran ‘20
April 2019

Sources:
“Wendell Arneson.” Groveland Gallery, https://grovelandgallery.com/artist/wendell-arneson/.
“Wendell Arneson.” Wendell Arneson, https://wendellarneson.com/.