Author: Po-Lin Tong Kosuth

Po-Lin Tong Kosuth is professor emeritus at the College of St. Scholastica, where she has been the recipient of teaching, scholarly, and creative excellence awards as well as several faculty research grants. She has received two Mc Knight/ARAC Career Development Grants, a Jerome Travel Study Grant, and an Artist Assistance Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Her work has been collected by the Tweed Museum of Art; the City of Duluth; Norwest Bank of Commerce; St Luke’s Hospital; and Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A., among others. Her work is further represented in the Dayton Collections and in Växjö, Sweden. In 2007, Shaoxing University gave her a solo exhibition that traveled to the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, China. She has been—for more than forty years—an advocate for the Chinese community in northeastern Minnesota.