Linnea Glatt is an artist born in

Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the state's second-most populous city, after Fargo. The city's population was 73,622 in the 2020 census, while its metropolitan popula ...

in 1949. Glatt graduated with a Bachelor's from

Moorhead State University Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) is a public university in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has an enrollment of 7,534 students in 2019 and 266 full-time faculty members. MSUM is a part of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities s ...

(Minnesota) in 1971 and then went on to receive a Master's from the

University of Dallas The University of Dallas is a Private university, private Catholic church, Catholic university in Irving, Texas. Established in 1956, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university comprises four academi ...

(Texas) in 1972. She became an art instructor at

Richland College Dallas College Richland Campus (often stylized as Richland or RLC) is a public community college in Dallas, Texas. The school was founded in 1972 and is part of Dallas College. It is the largest campus in the college, featuring about 20,000 st ...

and taught from 1974 to 1984. In 1985, she began teaching at

Southern Methodist University , mottoeng = "The truth will make you free" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = SACS , academic_affiliations = , religious_affiliation = United Methodist Church , president = R. Gerald Turner , prov ...

(SMU) until 1988. As a post-modern sculptor and installationist, Glatt has worked on numerous public art installations including "Passage Inacheve" (1990) located at Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas (1990), and "Harrow" (1992) located in Dallas, TX at the Lubben Plaza. After focusing on large-scale public art sculptures in the 1980s and 1990s, Glatt has returned to a studio-based practice where she continues to focus on placemaking. Her practice is inspired by her childhood memories of growing up in North Dakota.

Awards

Glatt's awards include Dallas Center for Contemporary Art Legend Award, Art Matters Individual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, and The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund.

References

Living people 1949 births Date of birth missing (living people) Artists from North Dakota People from Bismarck, North Dakota 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American women artists American women sculptors American installation artists American women installation artists Minnesota State University Moorhead alumni University of Dallas alumni Southern Methodist University faculty American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-sculptor-stub