RAiR | 1976-77

Michael Aakhus 

Michael Aakhus is professor of art and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana where he worked from 1977 to 2016.  He was born in Minnesota on the Canadian border and attended Bemidji State University where he earned a BA in art. On completion of his undergraduate work he moved to Illinois where he received an MFA in printmaking, painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. He was awarded a RAiR Fellowship in 1976 and spent the year in Roswell at the residency program doing intaglio prints and worked in oil on high impact styrene. His work has been exhibited widely and is represented in many public and private collections throughout the world.  He works in the medium of oil on canvas as well as intaglio printmaking. His current works on paper are assemblages constructed from prints, drawings and digital photos combined with found materials. He returned to Roswell during his sabbatical year at the historic compound working on a series of 20 oil paintings on canvas as well as assemblages that were shown in St. Louis in November of 2018.

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