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contact name: Curt Lund
email: curt@trueenough.com

Curt Lund is a graphic designer, freelance writer, spoken word performer, arts nonprofit marketing manager, found media artist, art museum tour guide... what all these have in common is what Curt loves best: combining visual arts and the written word in interesting ways.

Curt's mixed and found media artwork has appeared at the Minneapolis Public Library; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts MAEP gallery; great local galleries like Artrujillo Gallery, Altered Esthetics, Susan Hensel Gallery and Stevens Square Center for the Arts; the Twin Cities GLBT Pride Festival art show; summer art crawls in both Twin Cities; a solo show at Acadia Cafe; and in some great collections right here on mnartists.org. Curt doesn't have a body of work so much as a basement of work.

Also a comedy writer and performer, City Pages has declared Curt "(one) of the Cities' brightest talents" and "deliciously geeky". His literary work has appeared on stages, pages and airwaves including Minnesota Public Radio, McSweeney’s, CBC Radio, the Minneapolis Geek Slam, KFAI Radio, Northstar Storytelling League's Tellabration! 2008, Fray Day, Spirit in the House, GLBT Pride festivals in three states, and countless other cabaret and open-mic performances across the Midwest and in glamorous faraway destinations from Vegas to Vermillion.

With performing partner Laura Bidgood, Curt has co-created numerous critically acclaimed spoken word storytelling shows, including four full-length productions for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. Curt is also a founding member of the Twin Cities' own Rockstar Storytellers.

VISUAL ARTS

2009
Artist in residence: Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley MN
GLBTA Perspectives, Larson Art Gallery, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Paul MN (juried)
The Sun Also Rises, Rochester Art Center, Rochester MN (non-juried)
None Of The Above, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN (non-juried)
Anatomy, Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Minneapolis MN (juried)
Juror: Multiples Mall, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

2008
Juror: College of Design Art and Design Annual, Iowa State University, Ames IA
Juror: Powderhorn Art Fair, Minneapolis MN
(Re)Visions of the American Dream, Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis MN (juried)
55408, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis MN (juried)
Altered Books, Minneapolis Central Library, Minneapolis MN (juried)

2007
Exhibitions committee: Stevens Square Center for the Arts

2006
Exhibitions committee: Stevens Square Center for the Arts
Secret Handshake, Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Minneapolis MN (non-juried)
Red Hot Art Festival exhibitor, Minneapolis MN (juried)
The Art of Sin, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis MN (juried)
Art 101, MNartists.org / Rochester Art Center online forum (featured artist)

2005
Exhibitions committee: Stevens Square Center for the Arts
Per-ver-sion Two, Artrujillo Gallery, Minneapolis MN (juried)
Conjuntively, Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Minneapolis MN (non-juried)
Solo exhibition, Acadia Cafe, Minneapolis MN
One of Each, Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Minneapolis MN (non-juried)
Red Hot Art Festival exhibitor, Minneapolis MN (juried)
St. Paul Art Crawl exhibitor, St. Paul MN (non-juried)

2004
Art of Democracy, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN (non-juried)
Twin Cities GLBT Pride Festival Art Show, Minneapolis MN (juried)
Red Hot Art Festival exhibitor, Minneapolis MN (juried)

2001
Janice Peterson Anderson Award in Art and Design; Iowa State University College of Design, Ames IA
REFOCUS graduate exhibition, Iowa State University, Ames IA (co-producer/curator, featured artist)
Honors Program visual arts grant recipient

2000
Art and Design Annual, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)
FOCUS Arts, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)
FOCUS Arts Committee visual arts grant recipient
Art at the Knoll, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)

1999
Studies in Creativity, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)
SKETCH creative arts journal, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)
Art at the Knoll, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)
Art and Design Annual, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)

1998
Art at the Knoll, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)
Art and Design Annual, Iowa State University, Ames IA (juried)

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Birth Place:
North Dakota

Birth Date:
June 12, 1979

Gender:
Male

Active Place:
Minneapolis

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

Artist

http://www.trueenough.com 

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