Michael K. Aakhus {Oils/Printmaking/Works on Paper/Photos}
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Michael K. Aakhus, Professor of Art
Dean Emeritus College of Liberal Arts
University of Southern Indiana
1404 West Berrendo Road, House C
Roswell, NM 88201
(812) 480-1995
Education
1976 Master of Fine Arts, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Major Field: Printmaking and Painting
1973 Bachelor of Arts, Bemidji State University
Major Field: Art/Art History
Administrative Experience
2011-2016 Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana
2010-1011 Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana
2005-2010 Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana
2008-2009 Interim Director, McCutchan Art Center, University of Southern Indiana
2000-2001 Chair, Art Department, University of Southern Indiana
1992-1993 Chair, Art Department, University of Southern Indiana
1982-1985 Chair, Art Department, University of Southern Indiana
Teaching Experience
1996-2016 Professor of Art, University of Southern Indiana
1987-1995 Associate Professor of Art, University of Southern Indiana
1977-1986 Assistant Professor of Art, University of Southern Indiana
Fellowships, Awards, and Grants
2016-present Returning Fellow Roswell Artist in Residence Program at the Historic Studios
2010-2011 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Incidents of Travel in the Peruvians Highlands
2008-2009 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, 100 Views of the Inca Road: A Series of Paintings From The Highlands Of Peru
2006-2007 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Artist Book Collaboration with the British Poet John Gibson
2005-2006 College of Liberal Arts Travel Grant to Oaxaca, Mexico, September 29 to November 3, 2005. For the Day of the Dead.
2003-2004 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Sabbatical: Exhibition Tec de Monterrey, Ciudad de Mexico
2001-2002 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, The Knight and the Lion. Artist book collaboration with Patricia Aakhus.
2000-2001 Student Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Video Project. the sites of Monte Alban, Mitla and Yagul in Oaxaca
1999-2000 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Stones of Izapa. With Dr. Timothy Laughton, University of Essex, UK,
1998-1999 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Award, Ancient Art of Mexico Compact Disc Project. An electronic textbook
1998-1999 Student Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Nahuatl Paper Cutouts. An exhibition on the papermaking tradition
1996-1997 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, The Story of Seven-Flower: Adventures of the Corn Spirit as Told by the Nahua Indians of Northern Veracruz. Artist book collaboration with Dr. Alan Sandstrom, anthropologist.
1993-1994 Senior Master Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission
1993-1994 Faculty Research and Creative Work Award, Amaxtli. Artist book collaboration with Dr. Gordon Brotherston of Stanford University based on Nahuatl texts of the conquest and pre-conquest Mexico.
1991-1992 Senior Master Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission
1991 The Indiana Arts Competition, Indianapolis, Award, Ireland, the Tree, 4’ x 18’, Oil on Canvas.
1986-1987 National Endowment for the Humanities Grant For the development of an interdisciplinary core curriculum.
1983-1984 Indiana Arts Commission Grant, History, Hardware and Romance. Artist book collaboration with poet Robert McDowell for Story Line Press.
1980 Indiana Arts Commission Grant, To fund a multi-media performance.
1976-1977 Roswell Artist in Residence Fellowship, Residency at the Roswell Museum and Art Center and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM.
Selected Collections
2017 Collection of Donald Anderson and the Anderson Museum, Roswell MN
2017 Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, IL
2015 University of Southern Indiana Art Collection
2015 Henderson Fine Arts Center, KY
2014 Evansville Museum of Art History and Science, IN
2014 Owensburo Museum of fine Art, KY
2013 Peggy and Jack Lewis, Evansville, IN
2012 Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, IN
2011 Special Collections and Rare Book Room, University of Colorado, Bolder
2011 Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2011 University of Central Florida, Orlando
2010 University of Essex, Colchester, England
2009 David and Vicki Campbell, New Harmony, Indiana
2007 Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico
2007 South Central Communications Corporation, Evansville, Indiana
2006 Hafer Associates purchase for The David L. Rice Library
2005 Vincennes University, Vincennes, Indiana
2005 Old National Bank, Evansville, Indiana
2005 CMC Inc., Evansville, Indiana
2004 Harry and Misook Doolittle, New York
2004 W. Frank Newton, Beaumont, Texas
2004 Tec de Monterrey, Ciudad de Mexico
2003 Magan Collection, Evansville, Indiana
2002 Helvig Von Ziering, Queretaro, Mexico
2001 Keller Collection, Ft. Myers, Florida
2001 St. Mary's Hospital, Evansville, Indiana
2000 USI Foundation, James Sanders Endowment, Evansville, Indiana
1999 Harding Shymanski and Co. Evansville, Indiana
1998 Harding Shymanski and Co. Evansville Indiana
1997 St. Mary’s Hospital, Evansville, Indiana
1996 Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Indiana
1996 Solarbron Inc, Evansville, Indiana
1994 Kimball International, Jasper, Indiana
1994 Mattingly, Rudolph, Fine and Porter, Evansville, Indiana
1993 Redspot Inc, Evansville, Indiana
1992 Stewart Edgley, Sydney Australia
1992 David Couch, Wellington, Florida
1991 International Trader Inc., Los Angeles, California
1991 Lynn Harris, Pocatello, Idaho
1991 Welborn Baptist Hospital, Evansville, Indiana
1990 Kimmerling Myers Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
1990 Frielander and Kirsh Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
1990 Crowe Chisek Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
1990 Citizen's Bank, Evansville, Indiana
1990 Jeff Smulyan, Indianapolis, Indiana
1989 10 Adams, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana
1998 Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana
1998 Evansville Courier, Evansville, Indiana
1998 Bristol-Myers Squibb, Evansville, Indiana
1988 Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana
1987 Hedge & Company, Southfield, Michigan
1987 Design Ovations, Xenia, Ohio
1987 American General Finance, Evansville, Indiana
1987 Advertising Communications, Inc. Davenport, Iowa
1986 Center Business, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
1986 Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
1986 Arthur Young, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
1985 Naas Foods, Inc., Portland, Indiana
1984 Litton Industries, Inc., College Park, Maryland
1984 Hollister, Inc., Libertyville, Illinois
1984 Arthur Anderson, Chicago, Illinois
1984 Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
1983 General Electric, Mt. Vernon, Indiana
1982 Deaconess Hospital, Evansville, Indiana
1981 Stoud and Waller Associates, San Francisco, California
1979 Union Bank, West Virginia
1979 Old National Bank, Evansville, Indiana
1978 Hydro-Line Manufacturing Co., Rockford, Illinois
1977 Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
1977 Anderson Oil Co., Denver, Colorado
1976 Belleville College, Illinois
1975 Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Assemblages, Henderson Fine Arts Center, KY
2014 Michael Aakhus Master Teacher Exhibition, Evansville Museum, IN
2011 The Flower as a Motif, Audubon Museum, Henderson, Kentucky
2009 100 Views of the Inca Road. Audubon Museum, Henderson, Kentucky
2009 The Day of the Dead. St. Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery, St. Meinrad, Indiana
2008-09 Day of the Dead. Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science, Indiana
2007 Solo Exhibition. Longstreth and Goldberg, PLG Art, Naples, Florida
2005 Images of Mexico and Central America. Shircliff Gallery of Art, Vincennes University
2004 Sabbatical Exhibition. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art
2004 Artist Books. Symposium on Mesoamerica, University of Essex, UK
2004 Matices en el Tiempo. Hacienda la Noria, Queretaro, Mexico
2004 New Visions of Mexico. Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de Mexico
2004 Mexico: Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico
2002 Mexico in Paint. Henderson Fine Art Center, Henderson, Kentucky
2001 Artist Books of Mexic, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico
2001 Stones of Izapa. Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, Indiana
1997 Mexico, Paintings and Prints. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, Indiana
1996 Images of Water. Oakland City University, Indiana
1996 Mexican Paintings. Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky
1996 Mexican, Artist Books. Angel Mounds State Historic Site, Evansville, Indiana
1995 Amoxtli. Mathers Museum, Indian University, Bloomington, Indiana
1995 Amoxtli. Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana
1993 Landscapes of Mexico, Wabash Valley College, Mt. Carmel, Illinois
1991 Solo Exhibition. Henderson Art Center, Henderson, Kentucky
1988 Indiana Painters. Lafayette Art Center, Lafayette, Indiana
1986 Abstraction. Neville Sargent Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984 History, Hardware and Romance. Evansville Museum, Indiana
1983 Recent Works on Paper. Center Gallery, Carmel, Indiana
1982 Recent Paintings and Drawings. Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
1980 Recent Paintings. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, Indiana
1978 An Existential Edge. Old Gallery, Old National Bank, Evansville, Indiana
1977 Roswell Paintings. Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota
1977 Recent Works. Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico
Invitational and Juried Exhibitions
2017 50th Anniversary Exhibition of RAIR Artist, Roswell Museum and Art Center
2014 Halcyon Print-Maker Invitational Exhibition, IN
2011 East/West A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, University of Central Florida
2010 USI Faculty Show. Jasper Art Center, Jasper, Indiana
2008 Mid-States Art Exhibition. Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana
2007 Beyond a Gift of Time. Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
2007 RAIR 40th Anniversary Exhibit. Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico
2005 Eastside, Westside, Northside. Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, Indiana
2004 Eastside, Westside. Evansville Museum of Art and Sciences, Evansville, Indiana
2003 Group Show. Synchronicity Gallery, Evansville, Indiana
2002 Group Exhibition. Padulo, Longstreth, and Goldberg, Naples, Florida
2001 It’s a River. Paducah Center for the Arts. Paducah, Kentucky
2000 Group Exhibition. Goldberg and Longstreth Fine Art, Naples, Florida
1999 American Printmakers. Published, Peoples Republic of China
1998-1999 Mexico: Stamped by the Past. Traveling Exhibition, Australia and New Zealand
1994 IAC Fellowship Exhibition. State House, Indiana
1992 The Indiana Arts Competition. Indianapolis, Indiana
1992 Invitational. Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana
1991 Invitational. Swope Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
1989 Invitational. Editions Limited, San Francisco, California
1989 Curator's Choice. Munster Art Center, Munster, Indiana
1988 Mid-West Printmakers. Adelaide, Australia
1988 Indiana Realism. Art Link, Fort Wayne, Indiana
1987 New York Art Exposition. Alliance III Art Services
1986 Los Angeles Art Exposition. Alliance III Art Services
1985 Print Invitational. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,North Carolina
1984 Indiana Printmakers. Moreau Gallery, Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana
1982 Works: Paper Exhibition. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1981 Owensboro Exhibition. Owensboro, Kentucky
1979 Invitational. Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
1979 Roswell Compound. Museum of Fine art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1979 Chautauqua Exhibition. Chautauqua Institute, New York
1978 La Grange National. Georgia
1976 Top Drawers. John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1975 Drawings USA. Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota