Fred Hagstrom

Education & Professional History

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MFA

BA Hamline University, MFA University of Nebraska Lincoln

Also studied at University of Chicago and at Atelier 17 in Paris

Taught at Cleveland Institute of Art 1982.  Taught at Carleton 1984 to 2022.

Retired as Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art

Highlights & Recent Activity

College Art Association, Distinguished Teaching of Art Award 2022

Book Artist of the Year, Minnesota Book Awards, St Paul, MN 2014

Teaching Excellence in Printmaking, SGSI conference, San Francisco, CA 2014

Art Educators of Minnesota Higher Education Art Educator of the Year 2000

Work in collections includes the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, The National Museum of African American History and Culture Library, Washington, DC, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Smithsonian Libraries, American Art & Portrait Gallery Library

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

Long time member of Mid America Print Council and Southern Graphics Council International

Selected Collections

Walker Art Center, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, Minnesota Museum of American Art St. Paul, MN, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Weisman Museum, U. of Minnesota-Minneapolis, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, Hang Zhou Normal University, Hang Zhou China,Tweed Museum, U. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN Blanden Museum, Fort Dodge, IA,Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, Kathe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin, Germany, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Selected Artist’s Books in Special Collections

Library of Congress, Washington, DC, The National Museum of African American History and Culture Library, Washington, DC, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Library, Minneapolis, MN, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Yale University, New Haven, CT, New York Public Library, New York, NY Queensland Library, Brisbane, Australia,  Bainbridge Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, University of Southern California Library, Los Angeles, CA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Smith College, Northampton, MA, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, Getty research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, Reed College, Portland, OR, Mills College, Oakland, CA, Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix, AZ, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, University of Colorado- Boulder, Boulder, CO, Oberlin College Library, Oberlin, OH, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota Historical Society, St Pau, MN

Highlight of teaching was taking 13 off campus trips to Australia, New Zrealand and the Cook I slands from 1996 to 2019.

Directed the Perlman Center of Learning and Teaching for three year term

Art of indigenous people, travel in South Pacific, travel to see prominent museums in Europe, extensive hiking, baseball