Contact Information:

Additional works available, please contact for
more information.

612-750-4187

email: sallyn@raincollective.com

ARTIST BIO

Sally Nystrom is an artist and art teacher who has a private studio and teaching studio at The Keg House Arts Building in northeast Minneapolis.  She graduated with a BA from St. Catherine’s in 1991 and continued her studies at both St. Catherine’s and The College of Art and Design, focusing on her love of art history.

In 1993 she began as a teaching protégé with Sally Brown, a founding member of WARM.  Together they taught in Sally Brown’s Studio School and for the University of Minnesota adjunct programs.  They have developed curriculum for various art programs in Minnesota and Wisconsin and Sally has shown her work in both states.

Sally’s latest body of work is figurative with a bittersweet view of the past.  She has worked from photographs of her own genealogy and she hopes that the viewer will recognize their own family stories in her work.

RESUME:

Formal Education:

St. Catherines College; BA. 1984-1990
Normandale Community College; AA. 1981-1983


Informal Education:

St. Catherines College, continuing studies in Art History; 1995-1998.
Minneapolis College of Art and Design; continuing studies, l996.
Grand Marais Art Colony Workshops from 1989-96 :
Making personal art, Hazel Belvo
Mask Making, Maria Mazzara
Painting, Elizabeth Erickson
Woodcut printmaking, Betsy Bowen
Mentor workshop, Hazel Belvo
Study with Sally Brown, 1991-1996
Mono casting workshop with Jantje Vischer l997.
Internship with Sally Brown, 1995-1997
.

Teaching Experience:

Sally Brown Studio School, 1996-2005
Grand Marais Arts Program: Making Personal Art . July 2002, 2005, 2006
Workshop given to staff of Washington Health Providers. April 2000
Lecture given to Womens Council of University of Minnesota on Visual Creativity 1999
Split Rock Arts Program: Stretching, 2005
Split Rock Arts Program: Everything’s Abstract! 2003
Split Rock Arts Program: Drawing for the Truly Terrified l996-2003
Split Rock Arts Program: The Wondrous Body l998-2002 University of Minnesota,  Duluth
Lecture   given at the Mpls. College of Art and Design on Willa Cather. 1989.

Corporate Collection:

Bolger Printing Company

Selected Exhibitions:

2006   Warm Annual Juried show,Mpls.MN.
2006   Coffman Union Gallery ,University of Minnesota
2005   Keg House Collective, Mpls.
2004   Minnetonka Center for the Arts, juried show
2003   Code Pink, Mpls. St. Martins Table
2003   Drawing Resistance, Babylon Gallery , Mpls. 
2003   Homewoods Studios Gallery, Mpls.,Minn 
2002   Homewoods Studios Gallery., Mpls, Minn           .  
2002   Group Show at Bloomington City Hall: Juried.
2001   Warm Annual Juried show. Mpls. Minn.
2001   Women's Visions--Womens Venture , invitational.  St. Paul, Minn.
2001   The 20 by 20 group show, Hopkins Center for the Arts. Juried..
2000   The 20 by 20 group show at The Bru  House, New Brighton, Minn.
2000   The Minnetonka Centers Figure Show. Minnetonka, Minn.  Juried.
2000   The Foot in the Door, Minneapolis Institute of Art. MAEP sponsored Mpls.,Mn.  
1999   The Bloomington Annual Art Center Members Show. Bloomington, Mn.  Juried
1999   The New Exquisite Corpse, The New French Café/Bar , Mpls.,MN 
1999   Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, Minn.  Juried 
1999   The 20 by 20  group show, The Egg and I 
1998   The Art  Spirit: Art from Within’ Johnson Heritage Bldg. Grand Marais, Minn.
1997   The 20 by 20 group show, St. Martin’s Table, November,
1997   ‘All About Me’, Katherine Nash Gallery, Mpls., Minn.  By invitation.
1998   The 20 by 20 group show, Unity Unitarian Church, St. Paul, Minn.
1998   Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, Minn. May  Juried.
1997   Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, Minn. Juried.
1997   Plymouth Fine Arts Council, Plymouth, Minn.  Juried
1996   Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, Minn.  Juried.
1995   Bloomington Art Annual Exhibition, Bloomington, Minn.  . Juried.
1991-96   Sally Brown’s Studio Show, St. Paul, Minn.
1991   Grand Marais Art Colony, ‘Proud Flesh’, Grand Marais, Minn.
1990   Five Artists Stories, Unity Unitarian Church, St. Paul, Minn.
1990   "The Other Foot in the Door’, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Mpls., Minn.

Achievements:

Best in Show award, Gallery 96. October, 2000.
Chairman of Grand Marais Art Colony Fundraiser, 1994 & 1995