Christine Baeumler

baeum002@umn.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Links

PLaCE

Bog Walk Documentary of Rooftop Bog Project

From Project to Practice: Imagining Communities

Amazon Twilight

Beautiful Resistance

Mapping Spectral Traces

Christine Baeumler seeks to raise awareness about ecological issues through studio practice as well as engaging communities in environmental projects focused on ecological restoration.

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

BA: Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1985 -
MFA: Fine Arts, Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1988 -

Specialties

painting
drawing
environmental and community based art

Activities

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Activities

Creative

Artist in Residence, supported by Public Art Saint Paul: Capitol Region and Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed Districts. 2010 - 2013
Naked Wonder: Gallery Exhibition with Mark Dion and Eleanor McGough. November 2, 2007 - January 30, 2008
Bureau of Atmospheric Anecdata, Vogelfrei, 2007, Darmstadt, Germany: An interactive environmental art project about climate change. October 27, 2007 - November 11, 2007
International Nature Art Forum 2007, Licherode, Germany: Collaboration with artists Beth Grossman and Cheryl Wilgren Clyne. August 2, 2007 - August 12, 2007
Two person exhibition: 55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY with Shana Kaplow. February 1, 2005 - February 26, 2005
Group exhibition: "Circulus," Rainier Beach Performing Arts Center, Seattle, Washington none - none
Pollinators at the Plains Art Museum, supported by Bush Foundation and Art Place Grant: A sustainable design of the Plains Campus, Collaboration with Seitu Jones, Barr Engineering, Plains Art Museum. 9/10 - 9/14
Solo exhibition: "Biophilia," Bethel College Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota none - none

Outreach

Lower Phalen Creek Project, steering committee member (received Metro Greenways Award, 2001); worked with community to create a new city park by the Mississipp River on an abandoned railroad site 1996 - ongoing
Reclaiming the Swede Hollow Historical Forest, St. Paul, MN, member of Friends of Swede Hollow; ecological restoration of a city park 1994 - ongoing

Research

Roof top Tamarack Bog, Supported by McKnight Grant: Restoration of Bog on MCAD roof. 6/11 - 11/13

Awards

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Awards

Nancy H. Gray Foundation Grant for Art in the Environment, 2000 - none
Commission, Field Cycles, Henry Lay Sculpture Park, St. Louis University, Louisiana, Missouri, with Andrew Klamon, 2003 - none
Seattle Arts Commission Grant, Salmon in the City: Public Art Project on Endangered Salmon with Kevin Johnson and Kelty McKinnon, 2001 - none
Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, Artist Fellowship, Two Dimensional Category (painting), 2000 - none
The Friends of Parks and Trails of St. Paul and Ramsey County, Outstanding Service Award, 2000 - none
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, January 2007 - March 2008
Art Place Grant, Defiant Gardens, Plains Art Museum, August 2010 - September 2014
Bush Foundation Fellowship, 9/11 - 9/13
McKnight Artist Fellowship Award, 2011 - 2012
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowship, 2011 - 2012
Creative Capital On Our Radar, 2012 - 2012
Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2012 - 2015

Courses Taught

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