Bio
I studied at the University of Minnesota where I received a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in studio arts and art history. After graduation, I integrated my practice with cultural influences while living in Tucson, New York City, Tokyo, and Paris. Lasting impressions include Southwest desert landscapes, New York street art, contemporary Japanese calligraphy and ikebana, and Japanese and French contemporary art scenes.
I worked as the Hands-on Learning Facilitator at the Walker Art Center in the Education Public Programs Department for 20 years. In 2009, I co-founded the Walker’s Contemporary Journeys program for people with memory loss and their care partners.
Currently, I’m a teaching artist facilitating artmaking and gallery visits for groups of all ages and abilities.
Workshops and summer camps include the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Can Can Wonderland, and long-term care facilities.
Testimonials
Ilene Mojsilov is an artist and educator who connects her own understanding and deep experience as a visual artist to her work with others. Ilene sets the stage to assist her students in finding their way into the creative process, tapping their imaginations as she connects them with culture(s), history and the contemporary art world. Her unique perspective is one of a facilitator of creative experience and unique learning that develops and meets the needs all of those she works with.
Lynda Monick-Isenberg, Artist & Educator
Ilene Krug Mojsilov is an artist and museum educator who possesses unique skills and tools to connect people with their creative selves. She engages others to look deeply at art in museums and galleries, leads them to find the points where they link what they see with their own experiences and ideas, and presents opportunities for responding through their own artmaking.
I have collaborated with Ilene as Art Lab coordinator and Hands-on Learning Facilitator at the Walker Art Center. She has worked with a wide range of audiences – from K-12 students to teens and adults. She teaches people of all ages and skill levels with understanding, challenges, and her own sense of play. I have seen Ilene bring her deep knowledge of art materials and concepts to create customized experiences in hands-on artmaking that links to school curricula. People in Ilene’s classes are successful because she meets them where they are.
Because of the impacts of Covid 19 on our ability to gather together, Ilene has recently transitioned to distance learning through virtual art experiences. But she has not lost her own style and enthusiasms as an educator. She is committed to bringing out the creativity in us all at this time when we all need it more than ever.
Susan Rotilie, Walker Art Center. Education Department, retired
Resumé
ILENE KRUG MOJSILOV
Lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Defying Sameness, The AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2023 Juried Exhibition of Sacred Art, Benedictine Center, Maplewood, MN
2022 Mélange: Mingle, Mix, and Medley, The AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2022 Seeing God: Juried Exhibition of Sacred Art, Benedictine Center, Maplewood, MN
2021 Tiny Art Expo, The AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2021 Small Works, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
2021 Rejected, The AZ Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2021 Brokenness and Wholeness, The Artists Lab Virtual Exhibition 2021
2019-20 Foot in the Door 5: The Virtual Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
2018 Roar! Your Voice.Your Story. Our Truth, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011 Woman as Photographer: Picturing Life as a Woman, Minneapolis Photo Center, MN
2008 20th Anniversary Show, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2006 The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
2005 Gallery Five Seven, Minneapolis, MN
2004 Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2002 Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2000 The Foot in the Door Show 2000, MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art
1999 Branching Out:Jewish Artists Respond to Planet Earth, Jewish Community Center, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Art-a-Whirl, Open Studio, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Women Making Their Mark, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1991 Fresh Currency, Artifex Alternative Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1990 The Other Foot in the Door, M.A.E.P. Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art
1987-89 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Rental Program, St. Paul, MN
1987 Works on Paper, L’Ambiente Gallery, New York, NY
1987 38th Salon de Jeune Peinture, (juried) Grand Palais, Paris, France
1986 37th Salon de Jeune Peinture, (juried) Grand Palais, Paris, France
1985 November at Vitry, (juried) Municipal Gallery of Vitry, Vitry sur Seine, France
1985 Expo of the Artists in Residence, Gallery Confluences, Paris, France
1985 Art in the Universities of Paris I & VIII, Centre Nationale des Arts Plastiques
1985 Rites of Vertigo, Gallery Suspect, Amsterdam, NL
1983 Destructive Art in Japan,Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Gallery 4F, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Frontlines of Modern Art, Paregon Gallery,Tokyo, Japan
1980 Independent Exhibition, Keimin Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1978 Arizona Outlook 78, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Paysage Français: Mémoire et Fantasme, Alliance Française Mpls/St Paul, MN
2010 Apartment One Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2006 Unity Unitarian Church, St. Paul, MN
2001 Galerija Stara Kapetanija, Zemun, Serbia
1997 Art-a-Whirl, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1991 Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1988 No Name Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1986 L’Ambiente Gallery, New York, N.Y
1985 Espace Kiron, Paris, France
1983 Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1983 Sining Kamalig Gallery, Manila, Philippines
1981 Paregon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS:
1996 Lacoste School of Arts, Lacoste, France
1990 La Vie des Formes, Chalon-sur-Saône
1984-85 Association Confluences, Paris, France
FILM SCREENING:
2001 Stone is Alive, Twin Cities Public Television, Produced and directed by
Mike Rivard, Ilene Krug Mojsilov, and Zoran Mojsilov.
PUBLICATION:
“Shipyard,” The Window On The Arts, Literature, and Society, vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1991
“Performance and the Mass Media,” Art Network - Japan Issue, Sydney, Australia, Spring, 1984
EDUCATION:
1984-85 Paris VIII University Paris, France
1980-84 Ryusei Ikebana School, Tokyo, Japan
M.F.A. 1977 University of Minnesota
B.F.A. 1974 University of MN (summa cum laude)
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
*Design an art curriculum to suit a given age group and people of all abilities
*Develop new teaching methods for adults including foreign born students
*Grant writing
*Invent new ways of looking at art
*Experiment with new media/materials in the arts
*Cross cultural interest in the arts
*Painting/drawing, with a focus on landscape
*Fluent in French and Japanese
*Teach Japanese calligraphy and Ikebana
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Teaching Artist:
2023 Minneapolis Institute of Art, adult workshops, MN
2021-23 Arts and Aging: CommonBond Communities, Minneapolis, MN
2021 University Without Walls, NYU, (Drawing by telephone), New York City
2020-21 Minneapolis Institute of Art, adult and children’s workshops, MN
2019 Children’s Theater, Scenic Artist, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Plains Art Museum, Family Program Workshops, Fargo, ND
2018-19 Walker Art Center, Contemporary Journeys Teaching Artist, Minneapolis, MN
2018 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Youth Studio Coordinator
2000-17 Walker Art Center, Hands-on Learning Facilitator, Minneapolis, MN
1996-99 Walker Art Center, Family Workshops, Minneapolis, MN
1997 Kulture Klub, Project Off-Streets, Teen Workshops, Mpls, MN
1996 Lacoste School of Art, Lacoste, France.
1996 Kulture Klub, Project Off-Streets, Teen Workshops, Minneapolis, MN
1992-93 Minnesota Museum of American Art, Youth Workshops, St Paul, MN
1992 Walker Art Center, Family Workshops, Minneapolis, MN
1991 Rochester Art Center, Youth Workshop, Rochester, MN
1991 Minnesota Museum of Art, Youth Workshop, St. Paul, MN
1988-90 Walker Art Center, Family Workshops, Minneapolis, MN
1988 Charles MacNider Museum, Youth Workshop, Mason City, IA
1987-2001 Minnesota State Arts Board Roster Artist, residencies around MN