Visual Artist
Milan, Minnesota

Malena Arner Handeen is emerging as one of the grassroots art-farmers of the region. Handeen attempts to capture the rural Midwestern aesthetic and translates it primarily through her drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her influences include the old masters of the renaissance as well as modern master craftsmen of folk arts. Handeen claims to be self-taught despite a stint of formal education at the Minnesota Center for Arts Education, and the College of Visual Arts, along with Ceramic studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

In 1999 Handeen did an Art Study Tour Holland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, France, and Spain, which resulted in a series of six oil paintings. She teaches drawing and printmaking at the Milan Village Arts School.

Show History:

"Four Generations of Women Artists", Madelon Powers Gallery, East Stroudsburg, University of Pennsylvania (2002)
"Thaw", one woman watercolor exhibit: Java River Fireside Gallery, Montevideo (2001)
St. Paul Crawl, the Hamilton Building, St. Paul (1999)