Dena Tollefson
Email: detollefs@aol.com
Website: http://www.denatollefson.com
Dena Tollefson is a native Iowa professional artist living and working in Cedar Rapids. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1988 and lived in Dallas Texas before returning to Iowa in 1991 where she developed her unique, highly textured oil painting style. Tollefson recently completed a set of 4 commissioned paintings for the chief operating officer of Starcom MediaVest in downtown Chicago. Her work hangs in both St.Luke’s Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospice in Cedar Rapids. Her work hangs publicly in Iowa and Georgia, and private collections in Omaha, Tucson, Chicago, Scottsdale, and Tampa and elsewhere in the US. She has exhibited nationally in juried shows in Texas, New York, California and Georgia and has won awards at the national and local level, as addition to participating in 12 gallery group shows. She is a member of Allied Artists of America and the Oil Painters of America.
