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DORTE CHRISTJANSEN

Emeritus Professor, Art Education and Illustration

Website: www.dortechristjansen.com

Dorte Christjansen taught Illustration and watercolor. She received her BA and MA from Cal State Long Beach. She taught art at Santiago High School in Garden Grove from 1966 to 1988, at which time she moved to Cal State Fullerton to head the Art Education program. She has previously taught at ISOMATA in Idyllwild, the Mendocino Art Center, California State Univrsity at Long Beach and has presented workshops at local, state and national conferences. In the summer of 1989 she was selected to attend the Getty Center for Education in the Arts Institute at Cal Tech, where she was trained as a consultant.

She has been represented by the Four Oaks Gallery in Pasadena and is currently represented by the Eileen Kremen Gallery in Fullerton. She has had many one person exhibitions and participated in dozens of groups exhibitions at local, state and national levels. Her paintings have been included in several books and been the subject of reviews and articles, most recently in Internatianal Textilkunst.