jeanne kosfeld
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Artist |
| Location | Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | Artist Jeanne Kosfeld works primarily with water-based media, but her body of work also includes digital design, designing games, and creating public sculpture. She began her career as an illustrator and cartoonist and led the design department at the University of Alaska, where she was also was an adjunct faculty member. In Minnesota she was the creative director at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for eighteen years. Jeanne has been honored with artist-in-residences in Arles, France; Mesa Verde, Colorado; Hot Springs, Arkansas; Pine Needles on the St. Croix, Minnesota; Maiden Rock, Wisconsin; Whiskeytown, California; Juneau, Alaska. She has attended International Urban Sketchers Symposiums in Portugal and the Netherlands. Currently she is illustrating a series of architectural/historical coloring books of Saint Paul neighborhoods for Ramsey County Historical Society. |
| Interests | Drawing, painting, cycling, skiing, hiking, traveling, guitar playing, cooking, inventing games, learning French, writing limericks. |
| Favorite Movies | Amelie, Chocolat, Triplettes of Belleville, UP!, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, French Dispatch. |
| Favorite Music | Joe Bonamassa, Grace Potter, Belle & Sebastian, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, Pink, Tony Bennett, Paris Combo |
| Favorite Books | Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer, The Judgement of Paris by Ross King, Any book written by Shel Silverstein, Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland, The Judgement of Paris by Ross King. |