ABOUT THE ARTIST
Allison Eklund is a Twin Cities artist, arts advocate, musician and attorney. After graduating from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota with double majors in art and art history, she pursued a career in law without leaving art behind. She took up plein air landscape painting in 2007 and enjoys applying those techniques to painting horses and other moving figures from direct observation. A love of wilderness and backcountry adventure in all seasons inspires paintings from Iceland in summer to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in winter.
Allison formed Eklund Law PC, her solo law practice, in 2007. With a background in Federal Indian law, her practice areas range widely from tribal and Constitutional law to legacy lands, small businesses, nonprofit governance, and estate planning. She serves many individual and business clients in the horse industry and has represented the Minnesota Horse Council and its family of related nonprofits since 2007.
A passionate arts advocate, Allison is a co-founder and officer of the RAS Orchestra Foundation, which provides need- and merit-based scholarships for orchestra students in Roseville Area Schools, ISD623. She is former President, now Events Director at Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and is the lead organizer of Plein Air Grand Marais, Plein Air Duluth, and other painting events throughout Minnesota and beyond. She is a participating artist and co-organizer of the Minnesota Plein Air Collective (MPAC), which has mounted exhibits at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and the Bell Museum, Minnesota's official natural history museum. Allison also plays mandolin, octave mandolin and occasional solo flute with the Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra and BYNRIE plucked string ensemble.
Allison formed Eklund Law PC, her solo law practice, in 2007. With a background in Federal Indian law, her practice areas range widely from tribal and Constitutional law to legacy lands, small businesses, nonprofit governance, and estate planning. She serves many individual and business clients in the horse industry and has represented the Minnesota Horse Council and its family of related nonprofits since 2007.
A passionate arts advocate, Allison is a co-founder and officer of the RAS Orchestra Foundation, which provides need- and merit-based scholarships for orchestra students in Roseville Area Schools, ISD623. She is former President, now Events Director at Outdoor Painters of Minnesota and is the lead organizer of Plein Air Grand Marais, Plein Air Duluth, and other painting events throughout Minnesota and beyond. She is a participating artist and co-organizer of the Minnesota Plein Air Collective (MPAC), which has mounted exhibits at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum and the Bell Museum, Minnesota's official natural history museum. Allison also plays mandolin, octave mandolin and occasional solo flute with the Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra and BYNRIE plucked string ensemble.
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