Professor Bachmeier is a native of Anamoose, N.D., who completed his MFA degree in ceramic...

Professor Bachmeier is a native of Anamoose, N.D., who completed his MFA degree in ceramics from the University of North Dakota. Professor Bachmeier’s career work in education and ceramics has garnered over 50 Best of Show awards and grants including the national NICHE award for wheel-thrown ceramics. He was recognized with the prestigious N.D. Governor’s Award in Arts Education for his “numerous, significant, and continued contributions to the state and region.” and recognized by Carnegie as a nominee for U.S. Professor of the Year. His ceramic works are represented in personal, private, and corporate collections in all 50 states including N.D. Governor’s Mansion, Microsoft Permanent Collection, S.D. Museum of Art, ND Museum of Art, Plains Art Museum, Dacotah Prairie Museum, Rourke Art Museum, and Michelle Obama’s office in the White House. He is one of 19 brick sculptors in the country, having completed numerous large-scale installations including Sanford Hospital Sioux Falls, Concordia College Moorhead, and U.S. Army base, Camp Grafton, Devils Lake, N.D. Professor Bachmeier was inducted into the Fargo North High School Hall of Fame for his impact on the school while teaching there.

Zhimin Guan, professor of art/painting, earned his MFA in painting/drawing from Fort Hays ...

Zhimin Guan, professor of art/painting, earned his MFA in painting/drawing from Fort Hays State University in 1998, the same year he joined MSUM. Guan has exhibited his art throughout the U.S. and China, including China National Art Gallery, China Academy of Art Museum, Singapore Asian Artist Gallery, New York Asian Cultural Center, North Dakota Museum of Art, Rourke Art Museum, and Plains Art Museum. Guan has presented 20 solo shows, 200 professional shows and received 25 art awards. He was the 2010 McKnight Fellowship recipient from Lake Region Art Council. His works were featured in numerous art magazines and public/private collections, including Microsoft, the Kilbourne Group, Singapore Asian Art Gallery, Rourke Art Museum, Plains Art Museum, and North Dakota Museum of Art. Guan strives to equally balance traditional and experimental, figurative and abstract in his art. please visit: www.zhiminguan.com to see more of his work.

Professor Park teaches Foundation Drawing I and II, Foundation Design, Introduction to Ill...

Professor Park teaches Foundation Drawing I and II, Foundation Design, Introduction to Illustration, and upper level Drawing / Illustration courses. He is an award-winning artist who has worked as an Interior Designer, Architectural Illustrator, Freelance Illustrator, and has illustrated four Interior Design textbooks. Professor Park earned his BFA from Brigham Young University, Provo UT, and his MFA from Northern Illinois (DeKalb) University.

Walla spent much of his young life on the West Coast. Born in Los Angeles and later moving...

Walla spent much of his young life on the West Coast. Born in Los Angeles and later moving with his family to the Northwest. The compulsion to make objects and images was present from a very young age. Walla graduated from Western Washington University with his B.F.A in sculpture in 1997. After graduation he maintained a studio and lived in Bellingham, Wash. In 2000 he attended the University of Wisconsin Madison to earn his MFA with an emphasis in sculpture. In 2003 he accepted a teaching position at MSUM where he is a professor of sculpture. In 2006 he was selected as a McKnight Fellow and is currently a nominee for the 2015 Joan Mitchel Fellowship. Walla has had numerous exhibitions both regional and national, most recently a two-person exhibition at the Rourke Art Museum titled Together. Past exhibitions include Wait & See at the Plains Art Museum, Don’t Piss On Me and Tell Me Its Raining at Apex Art, New York, N.Y. a solo installation at Fraction Workspace in Chicago, Ill., and, InWords at the University Gallery in Newark, Del.