Kent Kapplinger, associate professor of visual arts, will participate in the Chicago Printmaker’s Collaborative: 20th Annual International Small Print Show, Dec. 5 through Jan. 31 in Chicago. He will display his piece, titled "Backyard."
Kapplinger teaches printmaking and drawing at NDSU and directs the Printmaking Education and Research Studio (PEARS) and Art Bank rental programs. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Iowa and Bachelor of Arts in art from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. He has received fellowships from the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Hungary, the North Dakota Council on the Arts, Woodstock School of Art in New York and Vinalhaven Press in Maine.
His work has been shown in more than 125 individual and group exhibitions and can be seen in more than 25 public and corporate collections, including Johnson & Johnson Co. in New Jersey, Thrivent Financial in Minnesota, The Print Consortium in Kansas and the U.S. Art in Embassy Program in Washington, D.C.