EVENT LINK: https://www.therourke.org/carl-oltvedt-a-quiet-life.html
FEE: Free
Carl Oltvedt: A Quiet Life: Echoes of the Natural World
On view in the Main Gallery from 21 November 2025 - 11 January 2026
Member Preview— 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday 21 November 2025
Public Opening— 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday 22 November 2025 / Oltvedt Gallery Talk at 2 p.m.
Carl Oltvedt works full-time as an artist in a variety of painting and drawing media. He retired in May of 2015 from Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he was a Professor in the School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited his work in three prior solo exhibitions at The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum, as well as in several of the annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibitions of Fine Art hosted there. He has been represented by Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis since 1978.
His paintings and drawings are included in numerous public, corporate, and private collections, including The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum, the Plains Art Museum, the North Dakota Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. He has completed commissions for corporations and private collectors including the Cargill Corporation, Securian Corporation, and the Laske family. He was a recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants in 2014 and 1991, and a Lake Region Arts Council/McKnight Artist Fellowship in 2002.
