Season 3
March 7, 2005
Marcy Schulte AIA is a principal of Conway+Schulte Architects and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota . A graduate of Syracuse University , MArch, 1987, and North Dakota State University , BArch., 1986 she was a designer with the firm of Cesar Pelli and Associates, Inc., 1987-1991. At that firm she participated in a range of project types including 777 South Figueroa, a 52-Story office tower in downtown Los Angeles; the development of Urban Design Guidelines for Hartford, CT; and residential works.
Since 1991, Schulte has supplemented her work in practice with academic endeavors. The study of Innovative Design Practice and Entrepreneurship has been the focus of graduate level studio teaching. Her Spring 2002 graduate studio "Urbanism and Commerce: shopping, culture & architecture" was supported by Target Corporation and investigated transformations of the Big Box. Her upper level design studios combine the inquiry of cultural issues and urban settings in design.
Conway+Schulte Architects was established in 1994. Firm principals William F. Conway and Marcy Schulte have worked collaboratively in architecture and urban design since 1986. As architects who both practice and teach, Conway and Schulte maintain a commitment to inquiry and investigation in their design practice. Residential projects by the firm have explored the questions of public/private, zoning, infrastructure and storage. Re-located to Minneapolis in 2000, the practice has been recognized for their work in the design of public places. Incorporating elements of art, history and landscape design these cultural facilities often involve interdisciplinary and collaborative design approaches. DE-CODE /RE-CODE Atlanta, winner of an international competition for the for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games was awarded both an Iowa State AIA and Progressive Architecture Award.
At Conway+Schulte Ms. Schulte has served as Project Architect for numerous design projects including; Big Table Books, Centre Village Façade and Common Area Improvements, a holistic Veterinary Clinic and The Lincoln Highway Interpretive Site for Greene County Iowa which received an Iowa American Society of Landscape Architecture Award in 2000.
In December of 2002 William Conway and Marcy Schulte were awarded a Graham Foundation Grant. The grant proposal entitled Culture and the Recalibration of First Ring Suburbs will support research and development of a digital database. The site will provide information to homeowners, designers and builders on sustainable products and practices for the renovation of post war housing and first ring neighborhoods.
Joshua Clausen is a composer of acoustic and electronic music with a special interest in collaborative projects and interdisciplinary works. Clausen has produced several scores for theatre and film, including The Tempest, which was nationally recognized by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2002. Clausen has presented his compositions in masterclasses by Judith Shatin, Pauline Oliveros and Einojuhani
Rautavaara, and has received commissions from several schools and churches across Minnesota. Clausen is currently pursuing a Masters degree in composition at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, where he studies with Douglas Geers and Judith Lang Zaimont.
Nikki Schultz works as a program assistant for the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. She is an amateur video artist and puppeteer whose main interests include contemporary performance and digital art. Schultz is currently working on/ decompose/, her first shadow puppet show and second collaboration with composer Josh Clausen, which runs throughout February on University Theatre's mainstage. Her work has also been shown at the Pantages Theatre, Patrick's Cabaret and the Arts Quarter Collective's ARTSmosis.
Clausen and Schultz will be showing /Super 8/, their first sound and
video collaboration/experiment.
Andy Tyra has been casually working in the fields of Journalism and Web Design for the past several years. He worked in the Minnesota Daily's online department spring semester of 2004, and most recently has completed a significant web design and application project for The Wake Student Magazine where he released a brand new, expandable, database driven website. He also served as the organization's Photo Editor for fall semester of 2004, and will be as the Web Editor in 2005. He will be presenting new media, specifically web-related, as it relates to endeavors at The Wake.
Shelly Willis manages the University of Minnesota public art program, including the development of temporary and permanent public art on campus throughout the University of Minnesota system—purchasing art, commissioning artists to create work for specific sites, maintaining existing work and developing the program’s long-term plans and policies.
Willis came to Minnesota in October 1999 after 10 years managing visual arts programming for the City of Fairfield, California. She founded and directed the city gallery and the city’s public art program, with an emphasis on exploring community identity through temporary and permanent public artworks and exhibitions. She developed the annual /“Where is Fairfield ?” Festival/, inspired by a temporary public artwork involving over 7,000 community members and which beckons Fairfield residents to engage in thought and discourse about their town. While in Fairfield , Willis also developed the curriculum and taught gallery management at Napa Valley College and Solano Community College . Before that, she worked as a program coordinator at the California Arts Council and as the Director of the Institute for Design and Experiment Art, a visual arts center in Sacramento . She received undergraduate degrees in art history and business administration from California State University, Chico. Willis is the President of FORECAST, Public Artworks, a St. Paul non-profit organization that publishes Public Art Review, and supports and advocates for public art nationally. She teaches courses in public art at the University of Minnesota in the Urban Studies and Landscape Architecture Departments.
