Woody Olsen
Woody Olsen was born in Wisconsin and raised in Wisconsin’s Geneva Lakes area. Currently residing in Janesville, Wisconsin, he is a member of the Association of Wisconsin Artists.
He lived in Chicago for over 40 years and was a member of the prestigious Arts Club of Chicago. In Chicago, he resided in Mies Van Der Rohe’s famous modernist Esplanade apartments, on Lake Shore Drive. He recently retired from Northwestern Medicine Health Information, Chicago.
He studied at two top professional art schools, the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD). At the time, Layton was ranked among the top five art schools in the country. He studied with Wisconsin watercolorist, the late Anne Miotke of Whitefish Bay at Layton. Unfortunately, the school closed. With the closing of Layton, he transferred to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and graduated from MCAD with a BFA.
Prior to Layton and MCAD, he attended UW-Whitewater studying art history, studio arts, etching and printmaking. He studied with talented professor, artist Leanne Stevenson, a School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) graduate.
Click the button below to hear Woody Olsen’s presentation from May 19, 2022 for the Janesville Art League, The Fine Art of Collecting.
