Carl Oltvedt began teaching at MSU Moorhead in August of 1983; prior to that he taught at Alma College in Alma, MI for three years. He is currently a full-time Professor in the Department of Art & Design.
He has worked as a guest artist in regional schools, and abroad at the Glasgow School of Art and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Scotland. He exhibits his work regularly at Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis, the Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead, and other regional venues.
Oltvedt's paintings and drawings are included in the permanent collections of the Honolulu Academy of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota State Historical Society, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the Plains Art Museum, the Rourke Art Museum, as well as numerous private and corporate collections. He received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Fellowship in 1991 and a Lake Region Arts Council/McKnight Fellowship in 2002.
Carl Oltvedt is showing work at the Groveland Gallery in
Minneapolis until February
26th, 2011.