Systems thinker

Colleen Stockmann is a scholar, curator, and artist currently serving as Assistant Professor of Art History at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Stockmann completed a PhD in Art History at the University of Minnesota in 2020 and an MA in 2017.

My research explores art processes and natural history in the Atlantic world with an emphasis on North America.
Eighteenth-century map of South Carolina by Henry Mouzon picturing the indigo plant and plantation diagram.
Experiments in cultivating dye plants in zone 4. Developing a collection stewardship plan for a campus archive. Miscellany.
Image documents the remnants of a recent indigo dye workshop.


Notes on writing.
Image of a jacket by Bode made from a vintage quilt, read more in the article I wrote for American Craft Inquiry.