Alumni Profiles

Richard Lack ’50 Painter Richard Lack spent his life determined to revive and sustain painting traditions.	Evelyn Raymond ’30 Sculptor Evelyn Raymond was born in Duluth in 1908. Her love of sculpting began while she was a student at Duluth Central High School.
Ralph Ernest White ’42 Painter "Painting is an undeniable and personal declaration of the gift of life." -- Ralph E. White	Alexandre Hogue ’37 Always an independent, Hogue in his works captured environmental destruction in “a scathing denunciation of man’s persistent mistakes."
Lester Johnson ’49 Painter Lester Frederick Johnson was born in Minneapolis on January 27, 1919.	Carolyn Swiszcz, ’94 Painter and Video-Maker They probably also don't know she once made a really good large portrait of a glazed chocolate doughnut.
Julie Buffalohead, ’95 In school everyone had an influence on you. You were taught by other students as well as professors. Coming from a family of college professors, I always knew I would teach in some way or another.	Arlene Birt ’02 Social and ecological sustainability are so incredibly complex and large, she says, that words alone cant explain them.
Ann Wood ’86 and Dean Lucker ’85 Working together or apart, husband and wife Dean Lucker and Ann Wood explore a faintly antique corner of Americana.	John Flannagan, ’17 Sculptor He felt, "there exists an image within every rock.”