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Erik Sandgren Résumé : EACW : Katalog 2004
I am a practicing and widely exhibiting artist as well as professor of Fine Arts and Humanities courses At Grays Harbor College. I have been the primary visual art faculty here since 1989: tenured since1992. I teach a rotation of foundation Drawing and Design courses in addition to Art Appreciation, Painting, and Printmaking. I have co-advised journalism courses, and been involved with digital photography and digital media production. My active exhibition record as a painter and printmaker is detailed on my curriculum vitae and the world-wide web. My educational background is a BFA from Yale College (1975) and an MFA in painting and Printmaking from Cornell University (1977). My father was a professor of painting at Oregon State University: I grew up in a household saturated with visual art and visiting artists. My father’s most influential teacher at the University of Oregon had been David McCosh who had studied with the American Regionalist painter Grant Wood. This represents one of the two main strands of my background and education as a painter. The other complementary strand has been my ongoing connection with a milieu of east coast painters initiated during my undergraduate studies at Yale College with Bernard Chaet. Irwin Hauer, and Gretna Campbell. I was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Exchange posting to England and have received two sabbatical leaves from GHC for European travel to paint and extend my background in the history of art and architecture. I have twice been artist in residence with the Alfred and Trafford Klots Program in Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany administered by the Maryland Institute College of Art. I am a member of Print Arts Northwest, and have served six years as a board member of the Washington State Technical and Community College Humanities Association. Locally, I served as a board member for the Aberdeen Timberland Library for a five year term.
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about Nelson Sandgren (1917 - 2006) Born in Dauphin, Manitoba, Nelson came west with parents Beulah and Sam to Portland during the Great Depression after a boyhood in Chicago. Throughout his life he treasured both his early urban experiences and the bounteous, healthful nature he found on the west coast. He began college at Linfield where he played baseball, sang in an a capella quartet, and met father Bernard Geiser who became for him a great influence toward the arts. Transferring to University of Oregon, Nelson lettered again in baseball and graduated while enrolled in the ROTC. Nelson married Olive Palm of Portland in November 1941. During World War II he did basic infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia, then served as a lieutenant at various posts stateside and in the Philippines. After the war Nelson returned to University of Oregon on the GI Bill for graduate work in painting with
professors Jack Wilkinson, Andrew Vincent, and David McCosh. Their influence extended throughout
his career as artist and instructor. Nelson particularly valued his lifelong friendships with the creative
group of architects that began there. Nelson also did post-graduate work on the GI Bil, in Morelia, Subsequently he accepted a position with Oregon State College in the art department then chaired by Gordon Gilkey. On leave from OSU, he returned to Mexico for a year to play semi-pro baseball and for more post graduate work. These experiences solidified a lifelong engagement with Mexican culture and Spanish, which he read and spoke with great fluency.  Read more about Nelson Sandgren (Adobe PDF, 301kb) |
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