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April 19 - 23

Public Talk:
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm, Pattee Auditorium
Collaborative work with Art Students
and the Educational Garden:

All week
link to
The Monmouth College Educational Garden
Picture
Seitu Jones

Schedule:

Tuesday, April 19th: arrival and dinner with faculty
Wednesday:
     9:00-11:50 - Design Class in 308 McMike Academic
     lunch with faculty
     afternoon open for conversations with students or faculty
     7:00 - public talk in Pattee Auditorium
     dinner with art faculty
Thursday:
     9:30-12:00 - Sculpture Class (Multiples and Installation) in 110 McMike Academic
     12:00-1:00 - International Luncheon
     1:00-3:15 - Sculpture Class (Relief) in 110 McMike Academic
     dinner with faculty - "ThinkTank" - more info to follow
Friday: 
     Earth Day
     morning and afternoon - Work Day
     lunch with students
     4:00 - Earth Day celebration at the Garden
     dinner with faculty
Saturday: depart, possibly after a little morning time at the farm 

Bio:

​Working on his own or in collaboration, Seitu Jones has created over 30 large-scale public art works. He’s been awarded a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship, a Bush Artist Fellowship, a Bush Leadership Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communication Group Designer Fellowship.

In February of 2016, Seitu was one of 50 global artists and policy makers Invited to present at the Salzburg Global Seminar's Beyond Green: Arts as a Catalyst for Sustainability symposium. Seitu was awarded a 2001-2002 Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and was the Artist-in-Residence in the Harvard Ceramics Program. He was Millennium Artist-in-Residence for 651 Arts in Brooklyn, NY, and was the first Artist-in-Residence for the City of Minneapolis. In 2014, he integrated artwork into three stations for the new Greenline Light Rail Transit system in the Twin Cities.

A 2013 Joyce Award, from Chicago’s Joyce Foundation allowed Seitu to develop CREATE: The Community Meal, a dinner for 2,000 people at a table a half a mile long. The project focused on access to healthy food. Seitu is working with members of his neighborhood to create a 5-acre farm in a new St. Paul city park. For 18 months Seitu was a Senior Fellow in Agricultural Systems in the College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Science Resources at the University of Minnesota.

​Currently, he is working on a year long commission to create a sculpture for Walker Art Center's Sculpture Garden.
 
MLS in Environmental History, University of Minnesota
BS in Landscape Design, University of Minnesota

More Information about Seitu and his work:
CREATE: The Community Meal in St. Paul (here)    -    Start Tribune story (here)
​McNight Grant Recipient information  - for the ARTARK 
Frogtown Farm

The first entry at this blog provides information about many of Seitu's recent accomplishments
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