Credentials: MFA
Office: 221E Hartnett Hall
Phone Number: 701-858-3836
E-mail address: linda.olson@minotstateu.edu

Courses taught:
ART 0124 Three-Dimensional Design
ART 0250 Ceramics I
ART 0270 Printmaking I
ART 0280 Photography I
ART 0341 Sculpture II
ART 0361 Printmaking II
ART 0362 Printmaking III
ART 0370 Photography II
ART 0371 Photography III
ART 0412 Advanced Independent Ceramics
ART 0413 Advanced Independent Sculpture
ART 0415 Advanced Independent Jewelry
ART 0416 Advanced Independent Crafts
ART 0417 Advanced Independent Photography
ART 0418 Advanced Independent Printmaking

Linda Olson has taught at Minot State Univerity since 1990. She enjoys the challenges that come with each new semester. Olson directs the North Dakota Art Gallery Association and serves on the Board of Directors of MIND, Museums in North Dakota. Her university service includes: Arts and Sciences Representative on the Faculty Senate and member of the Intellectual Climate Committee. Olson has worked extensively documenting Native American rock art sites in the United States since 1988. Documentation is presented for exhibition with interpretive text panels detailing recording techniques, rock art imagery and researched information about the images. Olson has presented lectures on rock art to over thirty audiences in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. She actively exhibits her artwork having participated in over twenty solo exhibitions and fifty-five group exhibitions.