Awards

1999 McKnight Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Outstanding Critical Synthesis Award, Hamline University, 1999

Nominated for 1999 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

1996 Bush Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts

1996 Intermedia Arts/McKnight Foundation Interdisciplinary Fellowship

1994 Jerome Travel and Study Grant

1993 McKnight Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts

1993 Diverse Visions Regional Grant Intermedia Arts

1991 Jerome Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts

Arts and Community Activities

Advisory panel, pARTs (photographic) Gallery, Minneapolis, 1999-

Participate in selection panels for grants

Advisory panel member, Minnesota Historical Society exhibition, "African Americans in Minnesota," 1997

Board member, Intermedia Arts (multidisciplinary arts organization) 1991-1992

Advisory Board, Women Arts Registry of Minnesota, 1990

Recent Presentations, Activities and Publications

Panelist at Popular Culture Association Conference, San Diego, April 1999

Panelist for forum "Lending Culture, Making Media: Libraries and Museums in the Digital Age"
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 1999

"Digital Forefront: Process and Product" Panelist,
pARTs Gallery, Minneapolis, January 1999

Panelist, College Art Association Conference, Toronto, February 1998

MN AIGA Design Camp, Conducted workshop in interactive interface design, presented
SPACE|R A C E, September 1997

Author, "SPACE|R A C E," Bad Subjects #33 on-line magazine, September 1997
http://english.hss.cmu.edu/bs/33/gaiter.html
Presentation of interactive multimedia work at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in conjunction with the exhibition, The Photomontages of Hannah Hoch, January 1997

Advisor for teen 'zine project, also associated with the Hannah Hoch exhibition, Walker Art Center, October 1996 - February 1997

Presentation of SPACE|R A C E at the Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN, as part of artist lecture series
January 1997

Panelist on "Using Multimedia in Design"
Organization of Black Designers "DesigNation" Conference
Philadelphia, PA, November 1996

Presented artist sketch SPACE|R A C E at the SIGGRAPH International Computer Graphics conference in New Orleans, August 1996

Author, "Multi/Media/Message," Bad Subjects, #24, February 1996
http://english.hss.cmu.edu/BS/24/gaiter.html

Author, "Private Broadcasts/Public Conversations" Artists working in interactive technologies. Public Art Review, November 1996

Panelist; Utopia/Dystopia: The Third Annual Conference on Feminism, Activism and Art presented by San Francisco Camerawork/ The Lab
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 7-9, 1995

Talking the Boundless Book, published by Minnesota Center for Book Arts, essay from"Re-Reading the Boundless Book" Symposium

Reviews

Minneapolis Star Tribune. 10/22/99 Sources,Macalester College Art Gallery

Spot magazine, Houston Center for Photography. Spring 1998. SPACE|R A C E, Project RowHouses

New Art Examiner, October 1995. In So Many Words, Minnesota Museumof Art

St. Paul Pioneer Press, 6/10/95. In So Many Words, Minnesota Museumof Art

Utne Reader, July/August 1994. "Pixelated: Computer-mediated art comes of age"

Web design

The Natural Order of Things
http://www.mcad.edu/cgaiter
 
Currently designing Minnesota History Day website for students. Minnesota History Center.

 
Designed interface, page layouts, and graphics for the University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies web site, 1998
vortex.scu.edu/genocide/ [there is no "www"]
Offline version-databases not active

 
Designed page layouts and navigational graphics for the Walker Art Center's interactive activities portion of their K-12 curriculum education site.
http://www.walkerart.org/ace/ed_activities/

Employment

2000-
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota

 
1986-00
Teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design since 1986. Current rank, Associate Professor. Courses taught include Interactive Design, (incorporating web design and multimedia design,) Visual Thinking, Graphic Design, Visual Communication Theory and Methods, Introduction to Computer Imaging, Senior Thesis and Senior Project.

 
Independent Graphic Designer since 1983
Continue to work on graphic design projects for mostly non-profit organizations including the Minnesota Historical Society, Walker Art Center, Penumbra Theatre Company, Independent Television Service, Sexual Violence Center, United Arts, and others.

 
1983- :
Independent Graphic Designer
Concentrating on using computers for print
and media design. New York City and, since 1986, St. Paul, MN

 
1982-83:
Art Director
Garth-Powell Productions,
a company of the Garth Group.
Media consulting and public relations firm,
New York City

 
1981-82:
Independent Graphic Designer
New York City

 
1980-81:
Senior Designer, Promotion Art Department
vogue/Butterick Pattern Co., a division of the
Butterick Fashion Marketing Co.,
New York City

 
1979-80:
Independent Graphic Designer
Washington, D.C.

 
1978-79:
Graphic Designer
for the American Institute of Architects
Washington, D.C.

 
1977-78:
Staff Designer
Graham Associates
design studio, Washington, D.C.

 
1976-1977
Graphic Designer and Writer
Morris, Wilson, and Darrow, public relations and advertising agency
Pittsburgh, PA

Education

Hamline University
St. Paul, MN
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, 1999

Continuing education studies at School of Visual Arts
Parsons School of Design, New York City. 1981-82

Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
B.F.A. Graphic Design, 1976 with University Honors
Colette Gaiter ð 1342 Simpson St. ð St. Paul, MN 55108 ð (651) 646-3206

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