linda Seebauer hansen, marketing associate

Email: lseebauerhansen@tapestryfolkdance.org

Linda Seebauer Hansen brings over 15 years of non-profit visual arts administrative leadership and teaching to her marketing responsibilities.  As the Director (Education, Development, Marketing) for a Minneapolis-based fiber arts organization and Creative Director for her professional studio, Linda is accustomed to managing projects, production, content, digital images and social platforms for diverse audiences. 

She is a recipient of an Individual Fellowship grant from the Wisconsin State Arts Board and the Barrett Morgan Award for exemplary leadership and teaching while Metals Department Head at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts.  Additional teaching:  Art and Art History Department at St. Catherine University and Quench Jewelry Arts (Minnesota), Penland School of Crafts (North Carolina), University of Wisconsin - Madison and Whitewater, and Milwaukee Area Technical College (Wisconsin).  Linda’s career highlights also include - scholarship recipient and teaching assistant, Women’s Art Institute, St. Catherine University, international craft school Metal Studio resident, Penland School of Craft, NC, and numerous national exhibitions and collections. In 2021, Linda’s work was published in the book, New Bracelets: 400+ contemporary jewellery designs. She holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.

Linda comes from a line of old-time musicians.  Her grandfather, polka legend, Syl Liebl played the concertina.  Her mother, Carol Seebauer, played the piano with Syl Liebl and the Jolly Swiss Boys, and her father, Frank was an old-time drummer.  Linda grew up dancing polkas and waltzes in halls across the Midwest.  A fond memory is celebrating her grandfather’s 1993 induction into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, New Ulm, MN.  Today, her sisters Lisa Meyer (piano) and Amy Magnuson (concertina) carry on the tradition, while Linda finds time to attend one or two dances a year. Young Linda wanted to fly in an invisible jet and wear a super-human strength tiara like Wonder Woman.