Exhibitions

Arts North International 27 Jurors

Susan Hensel

Susan Hensel received her BFA from University of Michigan in 1972.  She has a history, to date, of well over 200 exhibitions, 35 of them solo, twenty + garnering awards. Most recently, Susan had 2-person and group exhibitions scheduled with the Howard County Art Council, Ellicot, MD, Artistry, Bloomington, MN and the Garrett Museum of Art, Garrett, Indiana. Hensel's artwork is collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute with major holdings at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Baylor University and University of Washington. Her new innovative work that blends commercial embroidery processes with sculptural concerns is gaining attention and awards mainly in the US with inroads into Europe. Susan’s knowledge of materials makes it possible for her to create small to large scale hard edge sculpture from soft fabrics that paradoxically keep their crisp form with minimal armatures. Hensel has curated over eighty exhibitions of emerging and mid-career artists from all over the United States and Canada. Hensel's curatorial work ranges from 2000 to the present. The Susan Hensel Gallery promotes Midwest artist online at Artsy.net.

Curt Pederson 

Curt Pederson is Senior Curator of Historic Properties at the American Swedish Institute, the past 20 years, working with over 100 exhibitions in the US and Europe.  He has developed exhibitions dealing with a variety of mediums and artists, as well as the care of collections at the ASI. 

Curt is the Superintendent of the MN State Fair’s “Creative Activities” competition, supervising the entry, judging and display of 5000+ entries from across the state.

John T. Salminen NWS, AWS.DF

John T. Salminen earned his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in art from the University of Minnesota. He lives and works in Duluth, Minnesota. John teaches workshops, makes presentations and participates in painting events around the world.

John is a signature member of numerous art societies in the United States, including: the American Watercolor Society – Dolphin Fellowship; the National Watercolor Society; and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America – Distinguished Master. He has had 34 one-person exhibitions in the United States, as well as several small group shows.

John is the President of the International Masters of Watercolour Association centered in Shanghai China and is a member of top organizations in China and Australia. He is an honorary member of the Jiangsu Watercolor Research Institute in China and the first American ever to be awarded membership in the Australian Watercolour Institute.

John’s work is included in permanent collections in Asia and Europe as well as in numerous private and corporate collections around the world.

John has served as juror and/or judge of over 90 national and international exhibitions. His work has been featured in many articles in eight major national and international magazines and in forty-two books in the United States, Europe, Australia, Russia and Asia.