Linnea Glatt is an artist born in

Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck (; from 1872 to 1873: Edwinton) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat, seat of Burleigh County, North Dakota, Burleigh County. It is the state's List of cities i ...

in 1949. Glatt graduated with a Bachelor's from Moorhead State University (Minnesota) in 1971 and then went on to receive a Master's from the

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

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

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(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 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