{"id":150,"date":"2023-03-15T12:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-art\/1960-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T23:34:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T23:34:15","slug":"1960-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/1960-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After Macalester"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"link-group block-container\" >\n            <div class=\"link-group__heading-row\">\n            <div class=\"link-group__heading-container\">\n                <h2 class=\"base-lockup__heading\">View Alumni by Decade<\/h2>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"link-group__links-row\">\n        <ul class=\"link-group__link link-group__link--\">\n        \t                <li class=\"link-group__link-item\">\n                    <a class=\"base-cta-featured\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    2010\n\t\t\t\t\t    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol base-cta-featured__arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-arrow.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"link-group__link-item\">\n                    <a class=\"base-cta-featured\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/2000-2\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    2000\n\t\t\t\t\t    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol base-cta-featured__arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-arrow.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"link-group__link-item\">\n                    <a class=\"base-cta-featured\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/1990-2\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    1990\n\t\t\t\t\t    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol base-cta-featured__arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-arrow.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"link-group__link-item\">\n                    <a class=\"base-cta-featured\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/1980-2\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    1980\n\t\t\t\t\t    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol base-cta-featured__arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-arrow.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"link-group__link-item\">\n                    <a class=\"base-cta-featured\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/1970-2\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    1970\n\t\t\t\t\t    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol base-cta-featured__arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-arrow.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                            <li class=\"link-group__link-item\">\n                    <a class=\"base-cta-featured\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/aftermacalester\/1950-2\/\" target=\"_self\">\n\t\t\t\t\t    1950\n\t\t\t\t\t    <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol base-cta-featured__arrow\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-arrow.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n                <\/li>\n                    <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<accordion-container\n    tag=\"section\"\n    class=\"accordion-group block-container\"\n    >\t\n\t<div class=\"accordion-group__outer\">\n\t    \t        <h2 class=\"accordion-group__heading\">1960s<\/h2>\n\t    \t    <ul class=\"accordion-group__list\">\n\t        \t            <li class=\"accordion-group__list-item\">\n\t                <accordion-container-header\n\t                    tag=\"h3\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-heading\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <accordion-container-header-button\n\t                        class=\"accordion-group__heading-button\"\n\t                        controls=\"accordion-group-1\"\n\t                        id=\"accordion-group-heading-button-1\"\n\t                    >\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__button-text\">1968<\/span>\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__icon-wrap\">\n\t                        \t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol accordion-group__button-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-plus-small.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t                        <\/span>\n\t                    <\/accordion-container-header-button>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-header>\n\t                <accordion-container-panel\n\t                    id=\"accordion-group-1\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-panel\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <div class=\"accordion-group__item-panel-inner\">\n\t                        <p><p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rolf Westphal<\/strong>, &#8217;68, majored in Economics at Macalester. He received a\u00a0B.F.A. at Kansas City Art Institute and an M.F.A. from the Cranbrook\u00a0Academy of Art. His monumental sculptures have been installed in\u00a0Austria, Germany, Finland, Siberia, Turkey, Canada and across the US.\u00a0He described himself as an &#8220;international person working\u00a0internationally.&#8221; He held many teaching positions, including the\u00a0Vancouver College of Art and Design in British Columbia, the Kansas\u00a0City Art Institute, the University of Texas at Austin, and was the\u00a0Frederick R. Layton Distinguished 日韩精品ing Professor in Studio Art at\u00a0Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. He died in 2016. To see more of Rolf Westphal&#8217;s work, visit\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/rolfwestphal.com\/The-Art\">rolfwestphal.com\/The-Art<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilhenrygallery.com\/westphal\/\">bilhenrygallery.com\/westphal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon D. Mitchell<\/strong>, &#8217;68, (d. 2022) taught art in the Minneapolis Public Schools.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p><\/p>\n\t                    <\/div>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-panel>\n\t            <\/li>\n\t        \t            <li class=\"accordion-group__list-item\">\n\t                <accordion-container-header\n\t                    tag=\"h3\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-heading\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <accordion-container-header-button\n\t                        class=\"accordion-group__heading-button\"\n\t                        controls=\"accordion-group-2\"\n\t                        id=\"accordion-group-heading-button-2\"\n\t                    >\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__button-text\">1965<\/span>\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__icon-wrap\">\n\t                        \t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol accordion-group__button-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-plus-small.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t                        <\/span>\n\t                    <\/accordion-container-header-button>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-header>\n\t                <accordion-container-panel\n\t                    id=\"accordion-group-2\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-panel\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <div class=\"accordion-group__item-panel-inner\">\n\t                        <p><p><strong>Yuko Nii,<\/strong>\u00a0&#8217;65, In 2001, New York State Governor George Pataki named Nii a &#8220;Woman of Excellence, Vision and Courage,&#8221; and Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden honored her as one of Brooklyn&#8217;s Women of the Year. She founded the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p><\/p>\n\t                    <\/div>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-panel>\n\t            <\/li>\n\t        \t            <li class=\"accordion-group__list-item\">\n\t                <accordion-container-header\n\t                    tag=\"h3\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-heading\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <accordion-container-header-button\n\t                        class=\"accordion-group__heading-button\"\n\t                        controls=\"accordion-group-3\"\n\t                        id=\"accordion-group-heading-button-3\"\n\t                    >\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__button-text\">1964<\/span>\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__icon-wrap\">\n\t                        \t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol accordion-group__button-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-plus-small.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t                        <\/span>\n\t                    <\/accordion-container-header-button>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-header>\n\t                <accordion-container-panel\n\t                    id=\"accordion-group-3\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-panel\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <div class=\"accordion-group__item-panel-inner\">\n\t                        <p><p><strong>Wayne Potratz,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201964, has an internationally acclaimed career in sculpture. He is in a group exhibit at Raymond Gallery in St. Paul, August-Sept. 2024. He was named a Nina Tesla Ballen 日韩精品ing Scholar at new Mexico Highlands University, where he conducted a tatara smelt, turning magnetite iron ore into high carbon steel. Potratz is a former professor of sculpture and chair of the University of Minnesota\u2019s Art department. During a 2008 visit to the National Casting Centre Foundry at New York\u2019s Alfred University, he demonstrated African, Indian, Mesoamerican, and Japanese clay mold techniques for casting iron and bronze. He has had recent shows at the &#8220;Contemporary Cast Iron II,&#8221; a national group exhibition at the Metal Museum in Memphis, and &#8220;Fusion of East and West,&#8221; a group exhibition at Luxun Academy of Art, Shenyang, China. His bronze world vessel is a time capsule\/ sculpture in Macalester\u2019s DeWitt Wallace Library. <strong>He received a 2014 Macalester Alumni Distinguished Citizen Award.<\/strong><em> His citation reads: <\/em>Practicing art could be perceived as solitary work, but for Wayne Potratz, it\u2019s the opposite: his art has connected him to a global community of teachers, students, and scholars. Thanks to many international artist\u2019s residencies, Potratz has developed a broad, unique, and global perspective on his craft: \u201cA specialist in ancient metal casting techniques from around the world, he has advanced the cause of internationalism through the making, teaching, and international exhibit of sculpture,\u201d writes one of his nominators, Macalester Art Professor Ruthann Godollei.\u00a0 A serious artist even as an undergraduate, Potratz majored in art education. Encouraged by Mac mentors and art Professors Tony Caponi and Jerry Rudquist, he earned a master\u2019s degree in sculpture from the University of California<em>\u2013<\/em>Berkeley. In nearly five decades that followed, Potratz balanced teaching and practicing art at equally exceptional levels. He taught more than 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students in more than 150 University of Minnesota courses over a 45-year teaching career. In 2008, the university named Potratz a College of Liberal Arts Scholar, the first artist to ever receive the honor.\u00a0 Using the Lakota sign for \u201cturtle\u201d as his artistic signature since graduate school and drawing inspiration from many trips to Minnesota\u2019s Boundary Waters, Potratz works primarily with cast bronze, iron, and aluminum. He is the founder of the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art. He has received international recognition through fellowships and awards, including the International Sculpture Center\u2019s 2013 Outstanding Educator Award, and has been part of 30 one- or two-person exhibitions and 340 group exhibitions. Writes another nominator on his impact: \u201cWayne has contributed to the education not only of generations of students at the University of Minnesota but also of a worldwide community of scholars, with whom he speaks in the international language of art.\u201d In 2013 he won a Minnesota State Arts Board grant.<\/p><\/p>\n\t                    <\/div>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-panel>\n\t            <\/li>\n\t        \t            <li class=\"accordion-group__list-item\">\n\t                <accordion-container-header\n\t                    tag=\"h3\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-heading\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <accordion-container-header-button\n\t                        class=\"accordion-group__heading-button\"\n\t                        controls=\"accordion-group-4\"\n\t                        id=\"accordion-group-heading-button-4\"\n\t                    >\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__button-text\">1963<\/span>\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__icon-wrap\">\n\t                        \t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol accordion-group__button-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-plus-small.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t                        <\/span>\n\t                    <\/accordion-container-header-button>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-header>\n\t                <accordion-container-panel\n\t                    id=\"accordion-group-4\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-panel\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <div class=\"accordion-group__item-panel-inner\">\n\t                        <p><p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sara Aeikens,<\/strong>\u00a0&#8217;63, operates Imprints International and is a photographer in Albert Lea, MN. Contact her at <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:aeikensara@hotmail.com\">aeikensara@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Siah Armajani<\/strong>,\u00a0&#8217;63, (Tehran, Iran) is a world-renowned sculptor. He designed the Olympic cauldron lit dramatically by Muhammad Ali at the &#8217;96 games in Atlanta and the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge linking the Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden with Loring Park in Minneapolis. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/walkerart.org\/calendar\/2018\/siah-armajani-follow-this-line\">Siah Armajani: Follow This Line<\/a>,<\/em> the first comprehensive retrospective in the United States devoted to Armajani, will be at the Walker Art Center, Mpls.,\u00a0 Sep 8, 2018\u2013Dec 30, 2018. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/21\/arts\/design\/siah-armajani-sculpture-met-breuer-politics-building.html\">New York Times<\/a> recently published an article about his work in New York.\u00a0 He had a solo exhibit at <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandergray.com\/exhibitions\/siah-armajani2\">Alexander Gray Associates Gallery<\/a>, NYC,\u00a0 in 2016. His <em>Tomb Series<\/em> was profiled in the <em><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/26\/arts\/design\/siah-armajani-the-tomb-series.html?_r=3\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> in September 2014.\u00a0Other permanent constructions include <em>Lighthouse and Bridge<\/em> on Staten Island, <em>Reading Garden No.1<\/em> in Roanoke, Virginia; <em>Reading House<\/em> in Lake Placid, New York; The Louis Kahn Lecture Room at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <em>Gazebo for Two Anarchists<\/em>: <em>Gabriella Antolini and Alberto Antolini<\/em>, at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY; and <em>NOAA Bridges<\/em> in Seattle, Washington. He had a solo exhibit at Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis in 2006. In 2010 he received one of 50 United States Artists fellowships to artists, which involves a $50,000 unrestricted grant to further their work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p><\/p>\n\t                    <\/div>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-panel>\n\t            <\/li>\n\t        \t            <li class=\"accordion-group__list-item\">\n\t                <accordion-container-header\n\t                    tag=\"h3\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-heading\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <accordion-container-header-button\n\t                        class=\"accordion-group__heading-button\"\n\t                        controls=\"accordion-group-5\"\n\t                        id=\"accordion-group-heading-button-5\"\n\t                    >\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__button-text\">1962<\/span>\n\t                        <span class=\"accordion-group__icon-wrap\">\n\t                        \t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"base-symbol accordion-group__button-icon\" viewbox=\"0 0 12 12\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <use xlink:href=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/macalester-2020\/dist\/svgs\/symbol-plus-small.svg#icon\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t                        <\/span>\n\t                    <\/accordion-container-header-button>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-header>\n\t                <accordion-container-panel\n\t                    id=\"accordion-group-5\"\n\t                    class=\"accordion-group__item-panel\"\n\t                >\n\t                    <div class=\"accordion-group__item-panel-inner\">\n\t                        <p><p><strong>Alan E. Kraning, <\/strong>&#8217;62, was awarded the Wallace Graduate Fellowship for 1962-63. The $1,000 Fellowship was given by DeWitt Wallace, Reader&#8217;s Digest editor and son of the founder of Macalester, for advanced study in the field of fine arts at Cranbrook Academy of Art.\u00a0 He was an Instructor and Assistant Professor in Art at the University of MN, Mpls in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<\/p><\/p>\n\t                    <\/div>\n\t                <\/accordion-container-panel>\n\t            <\/li>\n\t        \t    <\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/accordion-container>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":0,"parent":155,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/150\/revisions\/2747"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}