Jan
D. Elftmann
801 Washington
Avenue North #117
Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55401
612-747-2313
Education Bachelor
of Fine Arts
Minneapolis
College of Art and Design Minneapolis,
Minnesota 1984
Honors Art
Shanty Project Grant
ArtCars
on Ice Taxi Shanty
Plymouth,
MN 2007, 2008
Cause
and Effect Grant
Forecast
Public Art Program
St.
Paul Minnesota 1999
Career
Opportunity Grant
Minnesota
State Arts Board 1998
Another Roadside Attraction:
ArtCars
The
Orange Show, Houston, Texas 1998
Work Curator
for 801 Gallery
Experience Minneapolis,
MN
College of Visual Arts
Adjunct
Instructor
St.
Paul, MN 2008
Minneapolis College of Art
and Design
Alumni
Board
2005-2009
Art Shanty Projects
Alumni
Board, 2009
Panelist for Minneapolis
Artist Exhibitions Program
Minneapolis
Institute of Art 2001-2003
Founder and Curator for The
ArtCar Parade
Intermedia Arts of Minnesota
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 1995 - current
Curator
for the Lillian Colton show Ò LillianÕs VisionÓ
Minneapolis
Institute of Art 2004
Curator for "Rifle Sport
Gallery Revisited"
Intermedia
Arts of Minnesota, 1998
Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Minnesota
State Arts Board
Artists
in Education Roster Artist
1989-current
Compas
of Minnesota
Artists
in Education Roster Artist 1994-current
Science
Museum of Minnesota
Art
and Science Education
1985-current
Guest
Artist ChildrenÕs
Museum
2003-2009
Minneapolis
Institute of Art
2009
Walker
Art Center Education Program
1994,
1995, 1996, 1997, 1999
Quad
City Art Center, Rock Island, Illinois. 1996
Rochester
Art Center, Rochester, MN. 1993
Publications The
New York Times, Sunday
April 20, 1997
Front page and page 30 with
photo.
Art Cars: The Cars, the
Artists, the Obsession, the Craft,
Book
by Harrod Blank, 2002, page 36-37
On the Ball, 2001
Book
by Todd Ramquist and Kiralinda, page 40
RipleyÕs
Believe it or Not, 2005
Page
53
St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 4, 1999
Art
of the Obsessive, by Judy Arginteanu
Review of the show Common
Objects: Obsessive Forms
Weird
Minnesota, 2006
Book
by Eric Dregni, page 165
National Geographic
Explorer on TBS (TV)
October 5, 1998
Driving
the Dream by Harrod Blank,
Documentary
about ArtCars in America
Solo
Shows Tube
Art
801
Gallery
Minneapolis,
MN 2007
Child
Play
Room
Installation at Uptown Movie Theater
Rifle
Sport Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1988
Mom
< Dad
Installation
in an abandoned McDonaldÕs on Block E Rifle
Sport Art Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1987
Group
Shows MCAD
Gallery
Paradigm
Shift: Honoring Kinji Akagawa
Minneapolis,
MN 2009
Gallery
13
Minneapolis, MN 2009
Gallery
360
Minneapolis,
MN 2008
Art
Shanty Projects
ArtCar
Taxi Shanty
Medicine
Lake, Plymouth, MN 2006-2009
ArtCar
Artists: Off Road
Outsiders and Others Gallery
Minneapolis,
MN 2006
Group
Shows Jan
D. Elftmann and Ruthann Godollei
Northcutt
Steele Gallery
Montana
State University-Billings 2002
Open Book Literary Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota 2000
ArtCars and Art by ArtCar
Artists
The Triton Museum, Santa
Clara, CA 1999
ForecastÕs
Cause and Effect Grant
Science
Museum of Minnesota
St.
Paul, Minnesota. 1999
Big
Bang
Rochester Art Center
Rochester, MN 1999
Common
Objects: Obsessive Forms
The
Cork Bowling Alley
Minneapolis
Institute of Art, MAEP Gallery 1998-1999
Rifle
Sport Revisited
Intermedia
Arts of Minnesota
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 1998
Caffe
Baci
Chicago,
Illinois. 1998
West
Fest: ArtCars
Somar
Gallery
San
Francisco, California. 1997, 1998, 1999
Roland
Dille Center for the Arts Gallery
Moorhead
State University
Moorhead,
Minnesota. 1997
55408
Show
Intermedia
Arts of Minnesota
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 1996 Ð 1999
Another
Roadside Attraction: ArtCars
The
Orange Show
Houston,
Texas 1996 - 2000
Indianapolis,
Indiana 1996
MCAD
Juried Alumni Show
Minneapolis
College of Art and Design Gallery
Minneapolis,
Minnesota. 1995