Danielle & Travis | Save The Date at D&J Blueberry Farms, Inverness, FL
Save The Date film created for Danielle and Travis at the D & J Blueberry Farms, Inverness, FL on Sunday October 9th 2016. Perfect day for video and engagement photo shoot. I had the privilege to meet and work with Justin of Justin DeMutiss Photography!
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SOLO ACOUSTIC GUITAR by Jason Shaw
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How to Get In an Art Gallery: What Worked for Me. Approaching Art Galleries for Representation
Advice, tips and guidance on how to approach an art gallery for representation by professional artist Dena Tollefson.
Whether you are just graduating art school and need help getting your art career started, or you have been an artist for a while and need help breaking into the gallery scene or adding additional galleries to your portfolio, this helpful and encouraging video is for you.
This video is appropriate for visual artists, glass, ceramic, potters, sculptors, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, jewelry, and all artists who would like tips for how to get a gallery owner's attention and develop a relationship with the gallery leading to representation at a fine art gallery. Topics include pricing artwork, how do I know if I am ready for a gallery, how many artworks are needed for gallery representation, how to approach an art gallery, how to find an art gallery which is a fit, how to break into the local art scene, and more.
Tollefson is a full time artist and has been represented by art galleries since 2000. Her originals are available exclusively through the fine art galleries who represent her across the United States. Canvas and paper prints are available through her website denatollefson.com as well as iCanvas.com who licenses her work worldwide and through merchants such as Kirkland’s, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Nordstrom.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for more painting tips. Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in fine art galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting.
Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA. Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL Marion Arts Council Marion, IA Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA. United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her original paintings hang publicly and in private collections throughout the world. Prints and other licensed products are available worldwide
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The beginnings of and motivations for Feminist art in the 1970s
Liminality at The Border Project Space
The Border is pleased to announce the opening of the group exhibition Liminality on Friday, September 7. Featuring works by John Drue Scott Worrell, Frank Wang Yefeng, and Jamie Martinez, Liminality explores themes of ritualistic surreality through mixed media works.
An anthropological term, liminality refers to a sort of ritualistic limbo: the phase between one’s pre-ritualistic self and a final reformed being. During this liminal period, the individual loses all identifying or personal features, remaining as anonymous as conceivably possible. It is a disorienting phase of rebirth – the participant stands on the threshold between old and new, belonging to neither. The term holds a mysterious quality and yet seems familiar – the unease, or growing pains, during periods of personal, or even large-scale political or social change, often can seem to border on this same sense of unknowing.
The exhibition Liminality focuses on the surrealness of this idea of ritualistic transition, constructing an environment apropos of a cult induction unhindered by the constraints of time and place. Visitors will enter a sort of purgatory – being neither here nor there, to encounter mixed media works that may be more than what they seem, participants themselves in mysterious rites of passage. What happens within the liminal space remains to be seen, allowing for discoveries throughout the exhibition.
John Drue Scott Worrell received his MFA from the Yale School of Art, sculpture department and his BFA in Painting & Art History from the Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University. He has shown at Oilwik Gallery (Indianapolis, IN), Gait Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Roach Factory gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA) to name a few. He was also a fabricator for Paul McCarthy and and assistant to Wayne White. John Drue Scott Worrell is the recipient of the Fannie B. Pardee Sculpture Prize from The Yale School of Art.
Frank Wang Yefeng is an interdisciplinary artist. He was born in 1984, in Shanghai, China. He left China for the United States after completing his BFA at Shanghai University, and received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. In 2013 he began teaching and building the Digital Media Art program at Rhode Island College as an Associate Professor. Yefeng is currently based in Providence, RI and New York, and constantly travels back and forth between the United States and his hometown, Shanghai.
Yefeng actively pursues his artistic career in both East and West, and continues to think and work critically across media including Experimental 3D rendering and animation, video installation, virtual reality, and 3D printing. Yefeng has extensive experience exhibiting in venues internationally, which include Co-prosperity Sphere Culture Center(Chicago, IL), El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe(NM), Herald Square(NY, NY), Xuzhou Museum of Art(Xuzhou, China), HEREarts Center(NY, NY), The Museum of Luxun Academy of Art(Shenyang, China), Gene Siskel Film Center(Chicago, IL), Hyde Park Art Center(Hyde Park, IL), Hong Kong Art projects Gallery(Hong Kong), Between Art Lab(Shanghai, China), Governors Island Art Fair (NY,NY), Chi K11 Art Museum (Shanghai, China), etc. He was also a residency artist and juried panel member in NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY.
Jamie Martinez Colombian / American artist that immigrated to Florida at the age of twelve from South America. He attended The Miami International University of Art and Design then moved to New York to continue his fine art education at The Fashion Institute of Technology and The Students Art League in NYC. Jamie’s work has been featured in multiple outlets like a TV interview with NTN24 (Nuestra Tele Noticias, a major Spanish TV channel) Good Day New York (TV interview), Fox news (TV interview), The Observer, Whitewall Magazine, CNN, New York Magazine, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and many more. Martinez has shown in numerous galleries in New York City including Petzel Gallery, Whitebox NY, The Gabarron Foundation, Flowers Gallery, Elga Wimmer PCC, Foley Gallery, Galerie Protégé and many more. He also participated in a group show curated by Vida Sabbaghi at the Queens Museum which was very well received by the museum and the press.
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Purple Coneflowers Watercolor Floral Painting Demonstration Art Collaboration w/ Artsy Studios ASMR
Hello and welcome to my studio! This is a fun collaboration with Artsy Studios. I'll show you how to use watercolor pencils and watercolor in tubes to create bold, gestural and loose floral painting of Purple Coneflowers in watercolor.
Artsy Studios has created this art collaboration where one sketchbook will be filled by artists across the globe and then auctioned for charity.
I am the first artist on the tour, next will be Helen Schaefer of Florida and then Artfully Yours by Diana in Pennsylvania. In total over 30 artists will participate.
Here is a link to Artsy Studio's channel
Helen Schaefer's channel
and Artfully Yours by Diana's channel
Watercolor is known to be a tricky medium to master, but if you follow these steps of layering your watercolor, mixing watercolor pencils with fluid watercolor, and controlling your water, you will master the medium! This video is perfect for beginners or anyone wanting to learn more about watercolor painting. I hope you enjoy this AMSR slowly painted video with soothing music and spoken voice,.
I will demonstrate for you how to use Caran d'Ache Museum Aquarelle watercolor pencils along with Holbein and Winsor & Newton tube watercolors, and show you how to sign your painting with a liner brush.
If you suffer from insomnia, anxiety, or just like a soothing and calming ASMR art video, then you have come to the right place. There are plenty of closeups and art sounds. I hope you enjoy this AMSR slowly painted video with soothing music and spoken voice,.
Today's subject is the Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) which is a wonderful native wildflower from North America. We grow them in our garden here in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
I hope you will subscribe and ring the notification bell so you never miss new videos. I provide art marketing and art career guidance for beginning artists and mid career artists who would like to have gallery representation, need help with juried exhibits, or want to increase social media reach.
Today's video is ASMR spoken voice paired with music The Night Falling by Jr Tundra from YouTube's music library
In addition to helping you with art career coaching, I have videos for you about how to paint, painting tips and techniques, art supply unboxings, and fun and engaging Live streams.
My name is Dena Tollefson and I am a professional, full time artist from Iowa USA. I provide painting tutorials in watercolor, acrylic, and oil paint every Friday. I hope you will subscribe and come back again.
I am known for deep, vibrant colors in my signature painting technique called Daubism.
Find my favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, I receive compensation at no additional cost to you.
Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel
Learn more at my website
I am a Christian and my artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use my paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
I am an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting. Two of my paintings are in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's permanent collection. My originals and commissioned work are available exclusively through the fine art galleries across the US who represent my original and commissioned work. Find the list of galleries and licensed prints here denatollefson.com
Lot 0012 - 19TH/20TH CENTURY CHINESE CARVED WHITE JADE DISC
Circular carving of rare white jade with guardian dragons and botanicals, center hollowed out.
Carved pale white jade, with stylized entwined Chinese dragons in motif on one side, and floral decorations on the other. An unusual heavy art wear, with girth thickness over a quarter inch.
Issued: 19th-20th century
Dimensions: 2.15D
Country of Origin: China
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Restless - Adelaide Festival Exhibition - Samstag Museum, UniSA
Adelaide International 2012: Restless
2 March - 5 April 2012
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This second Adelaide International exhibition, Restless, curated by Victoria Lynn for the 2012 Adelaide Festival includes the work of eighteen artists and features the five works that will premiere in Adelaide. Ten of the eighteen artists will exhibit work at the Samstag Museum.
The exhibition explores the restlessness of our times. The artists seek out threshold experiences and create works that convey an ongoing transition from one condition to another.
By exploring physical force fields, or by negotiating complex cultural sites, the artists create the sensation of being catapulted into the spaces between the extremities of the living 'heavens' and 'hells' in our contemporary era.
As a collaborator in this major international project, the Samstag Museum is proud to present the remarkable art of: Francis Alÿs (Belgium/Mexico), N.S. Harsha (India), Annika Larsson (Sweden)/ Augustin Maurs (France), Saskia Olde Wolbers (Netherlands/United Kingdom), Lisa Reihana (New Zealand), Anri Sala (Albania/Germany), Socratis Socratous (Cyprus), Nancy Spero (United States of America) and Danae Stratou (Greece)
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Trailer park millionaires
Some of the richest people in the US, including billionaires Warren Buffett and Sam Zell, have made millions from trailer parks at the expense of the country's poorest people. Seeing their success, ordinary people from across the country are now trying to follow in their footsteps and become trailer park millionaires. The Guardian went to Orlando to learn the tricks of the trade from Frank Rolfe, the self-appointed dean of Mobile Home University, as he led would-be investors around a trailer park for sex offenders.
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The Narrative Abstract Artist
Dale Fairbanks is a narrative abstract artist, painting large scale and expansive canvases that have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and cultural centers throughout the United States including Alaska, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C. Her work can be viewed at dalefairbanks.com
For Arts Sake - 2017 Ceramics Invitational
Curator Bill Griffith shares the work of 16 different ceramic artists.
How Much Is This Painting Worth? | Web Appraisal | Bismarck
What's wrong with this picture? Learn more from David Weiss in this web exclusive from Bismarck, North Dakota.
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Lisa Visits Gallery 63 Auction
Gallery 63 has live auctions at their location on Roswell Road in Atlanta. Lisa LePaige visits one of thier live auctions. Advice to attendees, Get there early Visit buyrarestuff.com for estate jewelry and other vintage finds and collectibles. Lisa will be posting price comparisons on items sold at this auction on her wordpress blog,
How to tell if your Oriental Rugs are Valuable with Fox 5
From stitching to repairs. What to look for when picking a repair house and what to expect as a price if selling, for your oriental rugs.
When a heirloom item or estate needs to be estimated for its worth, hiring an accredited and proven and acclaimed expert is where to begin. Research, resources, technical education, 43 years of experience and exposure to global antiques and art markets is necessary for that 'exact' estimate needed. All the major auction houses, a large number of New York's affluent families, and Fortune 500 businesses rely on Lee Drexler and her firm, Esquire Appraisals Inc., for personal treasures or high profile estate and matrimonial appraisals.
Valuable fine art, antiques, furniture, Oriental rugs, Objets d'Art, china, collectables and jewelry appraisals are all within her spectrum of interest and skill. For an appraiser to be excellent, individual study abroad is required. Her in-depth study spans all the major Art Museums of Europe, China, Japan, India, Nepal, Thailand, Greece, Israel, Jordan Egypt, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Australia and the major art museums of The United States. Traveling and studying around the globe in 82 countries and her strong foundation of university education and certifications, makes her one of the most highly-qualified appraisers today.
She is a Senior member of The American Society of Appraisers since 1975, former President of the Hudson Valley- New York Chapter, former committee member of The Appraisers Association of America (NY chapter), author, expert witness at celebrity court proceedings, and frequent lecturer. Some of her clients include Dr. Ruth, Maya Angelou, Pavarotti, and Cyrus Vance. The United States Trust Company, CHUBB insurance Co., New York's top law firms and banks are proud customers also —Morgan Stanley, American Express, and Merrill Lynch — to name a few. She has many stories to tell, such as in her book Fabulous Finds on Amazon.com. Not only are accurate estimates of your precious belongings important, Lee also provides the guidance necessary to sell them at auction or private sale.
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SAAM Symposia - Augustus Saint-Gaudens Centennial
This symposium will reexamined the influence and importance of one of America’s greatest sculptors, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907).
Anicka Yi - Conceptual Artist
BFA Fine Arts presents visiting artist Anicka Yi, winner of the 2016 Hugo Boss Prize, giving a presentation on her work.
Anicka Yi is a conceptual artist who works in fragrances. Anicka Yi lives and works in New York. Her work involves scent, tactility and perishability as a means to reconfigure the epistemological and sensorial terms of a predominantly visual art world.
Celebrating the East Building Twentieth-Century Art Series, Part 7: Dada and Surrealism
David Gariff, senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art. Just as the years before World War I witnessed the birth of abstraction, the war itself brought Dada, equally international movement, but dark and mordant where abstraction was earnest and utopian. The name, plucked from a dictionary in Zurich in 1916, means “rocking horse” in French or “yes yes” in Romanian and Russian. But as the name of a movement it really means nothing at all. Sick of the culture that had produced the carnage of the First World War, Dada challenged every sacred cow, throwing expression and authorship out the window and celebrating chance and absurdity instead. Then surrealism came along to channel the anti-art energies of Dadaists like Marcel Duchamp back into the museum, triggering a wildly successful yet fractious movement that swept Europe between the wars and embraced many media. Artists like Max Ernst, René Magritte, Kay Sage, and Yves Tanguy, to name only a few, would follow the dictum of the movement’s founder, André Breton, and “seek to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality.” As part of the series Celebrating the East Building: 20th-Century Art, senior lecturer David Gariff explores the chaos of Dada and the revolution of surrealism. This lecture was presented on July 31, 2018, at the National Gallery of Art.
Mark Hopkins House Side Chair (Herter Brothers)
Mark Hopkins House Side Chair, c. 1878-80, designed and made by Herter Brothers (New York), rosewood, inlaid and veneered with various woods, silk (of the period, but not original) (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2010-5-1) A conversation with Emily Orr (Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary American Design, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) and Dr. Beth Harris (Smarthistory). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Agave
Maine Art Paintings and Sculptures is proud to represent Lyman Whitaker. For nearly thirty years Lyman has been creating his kinetic Wind Sculptures™. They are the original. Maine Art Paintings and Sculpture is in the heart of the Kennebunkport community and the only gallery that represents Lyman Whitaker in Maine. As you drive into Kennebunkport you are welcomed by the largest display of Lyman Whitaker Wind Sculptures™ in the Eastern United States.
Agave is available in multiple sizes:
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About Lyman Whitaker Wind Sculpture™
The sculptures are hand crafted from copper, steel and stainless steel that provide beauty and strength. Ranging from 5 -27 feet, each Wind Sculpture™ is secured against theft and rests on a sealed ball bearing at the top of a vertical rod. They also come with a steel ground mount receptacle for simple installation. Lyman's designs permit the sculpture to be responsive to the currents of the wind, allowing changing forms to emerge in a slight breeze, yet balance in high winds.
The weathered color pallet fits extremely well with a variety of locales; the copper, brown, tan and green are all elements of the applied patina. The copper and stainless steel elements have a glistening effect as they move in the sun and low lighting definitely enhances the appeal at night. The sculptures are intriguing when caught in one's peripheral vision for a second, but not a diversion; up close, the experience is mesmerizing and interactive. The sculptures are hand crafted from copper, steel and stainless steel that provide beauty and strength. Ranging from 5 -27 feet, each Wind Sculpture™ is secured against theft and rests on a sealed ball bearing at the top of a vertical rod. They also come with a steel ground mount receptacle for simple installation. Lyman's designs permit the sculpture to be responsive to the currents of the wind, allowing changing forms to emerge in a slight breeze, yet balance in high winds.
The weathered color pallet fits extremely well with a variety of locales; the copper, brown, tan and green are all elements of the applied patina. The copper and stainless steel elements have a glistening effect as they move in the sun and low lighting definitely enhances the appeal at night. The sculptures are intriguing when caught in one's peripheral vision for a second, but not a diversion; up close, the experience is mesmerizing and interactive.
“Bartholomew’s Sky” Part 1 of 2 LIVE Acrylic Landscape Painting Demonstration Impasto Art Technique
Come join professional artist Dena Tollefson in her art studio! This fun, relaxing video is a great way to unwind and increase your creativity. Dena Tollefson paints “Bartholomew’s Sky” in acrylic using her signature Daubism impasto technique. Her unique impasto technique is done using paint, palette knives, and spoons to create a three dimensional, touchable texture on top of the canvas. This painting is created using heavy bodied Golden acrylic paint and palette knives. Watch as Dena demonstrates how to paint in her impasto technique. This is part 1 of 2 parts. Be sure to watch part 2 to see the full texture effect in paint.
“Bartholomew’s Sky” is part of Tollefson's Sky Series of landscape paintings depicting Creation. Every day God gives us a new sunrise and a new sunset.
Tollefson is known for deep, vibrant colors in her signature painting technique.
Find Dena Tollefson's favorite art supplies at
As an Amazon Influencer, Tollefson receives compensation at no additional cost to you.
My technique can be done in either oil paint and acrylic paint.
Tollefson uses both palette knives and spoons to paint 3D, touchable, textured works of art on canvas.
Be sure to subscribe to her channel for more painting tips.
Learn more at her website
Tollefson is a Christian and her artwork is positive message, uplifting and healing. Collectors use her paintings for meditation, calming, and healing thought.
Artist’s Statement: I am a Colorist and am known for contemporary realism focusing on botanicals and landscapes, especially ponds, flowers and skies. My sky paintings are my idea of how God created Earth with one breath. Every morning and every evening He creates a new sky for us.
I employ vigorous brushwork and texture through the palette knife in my work so that people may experience along with me the feel of the painting. I find mosaics fascinating how the individual pieces all contribute to the whole- I want my paintings to have a similar idea where overlapping petals of paint all stand on their own and then contribute to the total.
My work known as Daubism is created using a palette knife where each stroke of color is isolated from the others. Most paintings will have hundreds of different colors, these colors are all individually hand-mixed from a limited set of colors creating unique colors which relate to one another. I am striving for a sensual, tactile surface in paint.
I am always excited when someone connects with my artwork- I am delighted to share a vision of color and beauty with my collectors- Dena Tollefson
Dena Tollefson is an American artist whose bold contemporary paintings focus on joyful use of color, texture and movement, creating a low relief effect in paint- a hybrid between low relief sculpture, mosaic, and traditional painting.
She is known for floral painting, especially how to paint sunflowers.
Dena Tollefson (nee Dena Schaefer), born 1965, is a full-time, professional artist. Tollefson graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured painting style. She lives in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with her husband and family.
Tollefson is represented in galleries nationally in New Mexico, California, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Her Daubism body of work is a unique process she developed, where daubs of individually mixed paint are applied with a palette knife. The largest daubs are applied with a serving spoon, allowing ridges of paint which catch the light and appear to dance and scintillate as the viewer moves past the painting. Tollefson’s work focuses on botanicals, ponds, skies, and her Corn Series of work, biographies where people are depicted as ears of corn. Her work is highly tactile.
Museum, Corporate & Selected Private Collections
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.
Farm Credit Services Omaha, NE
Terso Solutions Corporation Madison, WI
Iowa Department of Human Services, Cedar Rapids, IA
Genesis Hospital, Davenport, IA
Monsanto Corporation St Louis, MO
Ronald McDonald Facility/Unity Point Health Cedar Rapids, IA
Ruberry, Stalmack and Garvey Law Firm Chicago, IL
Marion Arts Council Marion, IA
Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, IA
PCI Cardiologists Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa
St Luke’s Hospice Cedar Rapids, IA
StarcomMediaVest CEO, Chicago, IL
St Luke’s hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
United Fire and Casualty Owner, Cedar Rapids, IA
Mableton Bank, Mabelton, GA
Lil’ Drug Stores CEO, Scottsdale, AZ
Two of Dena Tollefson's paintings are in the permanent collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. Her work hangs publicly and in private collections throughout the world.