1. Marilyn Klinkner PO Box 282, Galesville, Wisconsin, 54630
(608) 738 1397 marilyn@triwest.net
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Selected Exhibitions
• Common Thread,
• 2014 Confluence of Art Biennial, Eau Claire Regional Arts Center, Eau Claire, WI 8/22-9/26
• (n)Collage, IceHouse, Petaluma, CA, July 25-September 14,2014
• Innovations in Fiber Art VI, International Exhibit, Sebastopol Arts Center, Sebastopol, CA, 2013
• Earth, Wind &Fire, Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental, CA, 9/16-11/3, 2013
• “Aparigraha: Freedom from Hoarding”, Eau Claire Regional Art Center, Eau Claire, WI, May
2010
• 2nd
Annual Southeast Minnesota Regional Juried Exhibition, Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, St.
Mary’s University of Minnesota, Winona, MN, June 18-July 29, 2010
• “Aparigraha: Freedom from Hoarding”, Winona Arts Center, Winona, MN, 2011.
• “International Conference on Rivers and Civilization Exhibit” , La Crosse, WI, 2006, 1st
place in
3 dimensional work
• “Tile Collages”, Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI (one person show)
• “All Dressed Up,” Appleton Art Center, Appleton, WI
• “Ceramics and Writing Residency Exhibit”, Rock County Technical College, Janesville, WI
• “Virgin, Mother, Crone”, Pump House Regional Art Center, La Crosse, WI
• “Wild Nest”, Winona Arts Center, Winona, MN
• “Visions from the Quotidian”, Odin Gallery, La Crosse, WI
• “Substance and Shadow”, Eau Claire Regional Art Center, Eau Claire, Wi
Artist- in- Residence for Wisconsin Arts Board and Wisconsin Schools
Partnership 1992–1998
• Wrote grants with school staff for art residencies funded by the Wisconsin Arts Board
• Designed cross-curriculum arts activities, which included art, social studies, history and writing.
Planned budgets, taught classes and ordered materials
• Developed teacher and parent/child workshops, planned community exhibits
• Demonstrations of work, school wide for the student/ faculty body
• Wrote two art curriculums for K-12 students with disabilities for use during residencies,
including a month-long ceramics and writing residency at Wisconsin’s School for the Visually
Impaired for ages 7-18. Janesville, WI
Educator, Artist 1972-2008
• Taught ceramics and paper-making workshops for adults, youth and children
• Wisconsin Arts Board Grant resulting in an exhibit called “Substance and Shadow”, showing the
parallels between geology and aging. The work shown was abstract ceramic vessels and
photographs of Trempealeau County residents living on the family farm…all 65 and older.

2. • Exhibited Ceramic and Fiber Art regionally and nationally
• Read poetry in Duluth, MN, Winona, MN, La Crosse, WI and Minneapolis, MN.
• Winona Art Center Board Member, Winona, Minnesota
Art Community Organizer and Art Coach for No Limits for Women in the Arts
West Central Wisconsin/East Central Minnesota 1989-2003
• Met with small groups of women artists regularly as peer counselor
• Developed leadership within these groups leading one-day workshops and coaching
• Organized three regional exhibits of members’ work