Biographical Information: Byron Bradley was born in Anoka, Minnesota. He grew up in Minneapolis and attended public school. He became interested in art as a child and attended classes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art for a year. His life direction took him away from art until 1944 when he began classes at the Minneapolis School of Art. He studied under Gustav Krollman, among others, and graduated in 1949. Awarded the Vanderlip Scholarship, he attended the Skowegan School of Painting in Maine for a summer where he studied with Henry Varnum Poor. He also traveled and studied in Europe with classmates Bob Kilbride, Tom Mickelson, and Dave Ratner. When he returned to Minneapolis, he found it necessary to work at other jobs to support his painting. He established the Kilbride Bradley Gallery with Bob Kilbride in 1951, and did layout and illustrations for The Potboiler, the newsletter which represented the Gallery's public relations. In 1953 he began teaching drawing at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He also became involved in teaching at the Grand Marais Art Colony with Birney Quick. He and Quick continued to run the Colony after the Minneapolis College of Art and Design discontinued its association with it. He became involved in the art supply aspect of the Kilbride Bradley Gallery and moved away from teaching at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In 1968, Kilbride and Bradley split off the art supply business from the gallery and he opened his own store, KB Art Supplies, while continuing to teach at the Minnetonka Art Center and the Grand Marais Art Colony. Shortly after Quick's death in 1981, Bradley disengaged from the Colony, putting his energy into the successful running of his store and his own work as an artist.

Biographical Information: Anthony B. Cassius was born in 1907 on a farm in Oklahoma and came to Minnesota in 1922 to join an older brother. He worked as a porter while he finished high school and also attended Macalester College and night school. He was the owner of the Cassius Bar in Minneapolis which he operated for 47 years. In addition to his successful business, Cassius was also active in Democratic and DFL politics, and in the community.

Biographical Information: Eric Austen Erickson is a native of Minneapolis. Prior to World War II, he attended classes at the Works Progress Administration Art Center and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Erickson then studied painting at the Art Students League in New York under Victor Thall and Cameron Booth. He also studied painting and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum School under Max Beckman and Milton Hebald.

Erickson has taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Macalester College, The Studio School, Art Center of Minnesota, Minnesota Museum School, Walker Art Center, and the Grand Marais Art Colony.

Biographical Information: Clement Haupers was born in St. Paul in 1900. He served as Secretary of Minnesota State Arts Society in 1921 before studying art in Paris from 1923 to 1929. He was the Director of the Arts Section at the Minnesota State Fair from 1931 to 1942, and Director of the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration in Minnesota from 1935 to 1941, as well as Assistant to the National Director of the Federal Arts Project from 1941 to 1942.

Biographical Information: Born in 1899, Carl Henrikson grew up in the Lindstrom-Chisago Lakes area. He has since used his memory and talent to preserve a record of a way of life he came to know while growing up. Seeking to earn sufficient money to enroll in the University of Chicago in 1924, he spent time working as a clerk and logger in a logging camp near the Minnesota border with Canada. Graduating with a Ph.D. in 1928, he embarked on his career in business and education, serving as assistant dean of the University of Chicago School of Business until 1937. In that year he took a sabbatical and returned to the Northern Minnesota woods and logging camps, documenting on film and with interviews that way of life. He produced a documentary film on lumber camp life before returning to Chicago. Upon his retirement, Henrikson returned to Lindstrom, Minnesota, and painted a series of watercolors based on the logging photos taken earlier. In 1984 he was inducted into the Lumberjack Hall of Fame in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Biographical Information: Robert Kilbride was born in 1924 in Minneapolis. He grew up and attended schools there before serving three years in the United States Navy in the Admiralty islands. He returned to Minneapolis and attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1946 to 1949, studying under Syd Fossum and Bernard Arnest. Upon completion, he traveled to Europe and while in Paris, he attended classes at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier. Returning to Minneapolis, he and Byron Bradley established the Kilbride Bradley Gallery in 1951. This partnership later expanded to include artist Eric A. Erickson as well. Kilbride wrote and edited The Potboiler, a newsletter to attract customers to the gallery. He also authored the book, Trivia, published in 1968 and included illustrations by Erickson. He served as president of the State Arts Society in 1958, taught at the University of Minnesota in 1956, and at Macalester College from 1973-1974. The partners dissolved the gallery in 1962, with Kilbride continuing the actual exhibition aspect until 1968.

Biographical Information: Francis R. Meisch was born in 1915 in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he attended public and parochial schools. With support from his family to achieve his early ambition of becoming an architect, he attended the University of Minnesota. He studied art under Elmer Young, Ivan Doseff, and S. Chatwood Burton, and earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree with distinction. He continued his education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying under John L. Reid and Samuel Chamberlain, and was awarded at Masters in Architecture. Following graduation, he taught architecture at North Dakota State College in Fargo until called to serve as a designer on National Defense projects during World War II. After the war he returned to Minneapolis as an architect for Northwest Airlines. He was employed as an architect by McEnary and Krafft from 1950 to 1954; the Cerny Association from 1954 to 1964; Haarstick, Lundgren, and Associates from 1964 to 1971; and Peterson, Clark, and Associates from 1974 until his retirement. He was active in the Minnesota Artists Association from 1943 to 1961. He began exhibiting dry points in 1937 and watercolors in 1942, and has been exhibited in more than 170 exhibitions and sixteen one-man shows.

Biographical Information: Bettye Olson has been part of the Twin Cities artistic circles throughout her career. She earned her Masters Degree in Art Education from the University of Minnesota, and has also studied at the University of New Mexico, Taos, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She taught at various schools in Minnesota, including the University of Minnesota, Concordia College, and Augsburg College. Olson was also a Summer Artist in Residence at Holden Village in Chelan, Washington. In addition to her educational activities, Olson helped to found the Westlake Gallery in Minneapolis. Her works have been exhibited around the country and she has won awards from the Minnesota Museum of Art, the Minnesota Arts Association, the St. Paul Gallery, and the Minneapolis Art Institute. Olson has also had one-woman shows throughout Minnesota and in Sweden.

Biographical Information: Jo Lutz Rollins was born in 1896, one of four daughters of a Methodist minister. Her painting career spans some sixty years. Primarily a watercolorist, she preferred to work outdoors, traveling all over the state, the country, and the world for subject matter. She concentrated on landscapes and has produced hundreds of paintings of historic homes and buildings n the metro area and the state of Minnesota. In addition to being an artist, Ms. Rollins was also a teacher. For many years she counseled the Gamma Chapter of Delta Phi Delta, the National Honor Art Fraternity of the University of Minnesota. Ms. Rollins taught at the University from 1927 to 1965, when she retired as Emeritus Professor. Beyond teaching, Ms. Rollins has been active in other significant ways. In 1933 she founded the Stillwater Art Colony where many well-known local artists gathered. In 1964, a year before her retirement, she founded the Westlake Gallery, a co-op managed by a group of women artists. She has not only consistently exhibited there, but has encouraged its members to the point where they have created one of the best small galleries in the Twin Cities.

Ms. Rollins died at the age of 92 on March 29, 1989.

Biographical Information: Elaine Scott Borreson, known as "Scottie," was born in Superior, Wisconsin. After graduating from Superior High School and attending one year of college at the University of Wisconsin's teacher's college, she moved to Minneapolis to attend the Minneapolis School of Art. Borreson then worked as a commercial artist in Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago, Toledo, and Los Angeles.

Biographical Information: Alvin Del Chamblee studied art formally with the late Paul Glemaker and more recently with the well-known Midwestern artist Paul Kramer. Since 1966, when his formal art career began, he has had more than twenty one-man shows and 25 group shows. His work was included in the Atlanta University Black Artists Exhibition; the Carnegie Institute Master Black Artists Series and Lectures; a Northern States Power Company exhibit of Minnesota artists; exhibits at the Minnesota State Fair, University of Minnesota, and Paul Larson Galleries; the Courage Center Images of Minnesota exhibit in 1988; and the Black History Exhibit of Three Artists at Lakewood Community College in 1990. His work is now in public and private collections. Chamblee was a member of the Paul Kramer Studio Group from 1966 until 1973 when the group evolved into Old Town Artists, to which he belonged at the time of this interview.

Biographical Information: Charles Morgan was born in Richfield, Minnesota, in 1917. When he was five, his family moved to a farm near Brainerd, Minnesota, but they moved to Minneapolis about seven years later. He went to Edison High School and then the Minneapolis School of Art. He was involved in the WPA art projects in the 1930s, including murals in Two Harbors, Minnesota and at the University of Minnesota. He spent one year designing greeting cards for the Buzza Corporation and in 1942 he went to work for Northwest Airlines as an aircraft finisher and later as a mechanic. He worked there until his retirement in 1979 at which time he took up drawing again.

Biographical Information: Evelyn Raymond was born in Duluth of French and Canadian parentage. Her father spent sixteen years in the Nopeming Sanitarium for tuberculosis, so her mother raised her and her four siblings alone. She graduated from Duluth Central High School in 1928 and attended the Minneapolis School of Art. She helped found the Minneapolis Art Students League. She returned to Duluth for eight years when her mother became ill and then returned to Minneapolis to be an instructor at the Walker Art School.

Biographical Information: Richard Cooper was born in 1946 in Hiawatha, Kansas. He grew up in suburban Kansas City, graduated from high school in 1964, and earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, majoring in sculpture. He spent two years in the Army, including eleven months in Vietnam, married artist Georgiana Kettler, and received a master of fine arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1973. After teaching in the St. Louis area, he came to Minnesota to teach at Southwest State University in Marshall. In the late 1970s and 1980s he also taught at St. Cloud State University and at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and served as a visiting lecturer at several colleges in Minnesota and surrounding states. In the 1980s and 1990s he was involved with numerous art galleries in the area and worked as a curator for several private and corporate art collections. In 1979 Cooper and his wife separated and in the early 1980s he formed a relationship with artist Mark O'Leary. Around 1985 he and O'Leary discovered they were HIV-positive and O'Leary died in 1993. At the time of this interview, Cooper was a public relations manager at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, and a consultant and writer for a variety of art organizations and publications.

Biographical Information: Douglas Argue was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and went to college at Bemidji State University and the University of Minnesota. He has exhibited around the state of Minnesota an across the country.

Biographical Information: Dan Bruggeman was born in Nebraska and received his BFA from the University of Nebraska. He obtained his MFA from Hunter College in New York. He has been awarded numerous grants, including the Minnesota State Arts Board Grants in 1993 and 1996, an Arts Midwest Visual Art Grant in 1994, and a McKnight Foundation Grant in 1997. He has exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Nebraska Art.

Biographical Information: Darwin Follrath was born in Arlington, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota and at the time of this interview worked as a painter.

Biographical Information: Keith Havens is a Minnesota artist. He has also worked as a designer, an art director, and teacher at the Minneapolis School of Art, as well as a writer and illustrator.

Biographical Information: Francis Kerr was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in Scotland and Norway. He studied art and architecture at George Washington University.

Biographical Information: Eugene newstrom was born in Richfield, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis Art Center. He served in World War II as a topographer with the Army and trained as an artist while serving in Italy.