Paula J.

Traut
College of Saint Benedict pjtraut@csbsju.edu
37 College Avenue South paulajtraut@gmail.com
Box 1756
Saint Joseph, Minnesota 56377

Education August 2006 - Present

College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University
Saint Joseph/Collegeville, Minnesota
Major: Studio Art Honors Program
GPA: 3.92/4.0 Dean’s List, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009
Graduation: May 2010 Study Abroad: Japan, Fall 2008

Exhibitions May 2009, 12th Annual Clemens Library Art Show, College
of Saint Benedict: Clemens Library, Saint Joseph,
Minnesota, Juried Show

March 2009, College Bowl 1/09, Northern Clay Center:

Gallery A, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Juried Show

April 2008, 11th Annual Clemens Library Art Show, College

of Saint Benedict: Clemens Library, Saint Joseph,
Minnesota, Juried Show

February 2008, New Majors, College of Saint Benedict:

Benedicta Arts Center Atrium, Saint Joseph, Minnesota,
Group Show

January 2008, Essential Art, Visual Art Minnesota:

Paramount Gallery, Saint Cloud, Minnesota, Juried Show,
First place in 3D category

January 2008, 12 th Annual Juried Student Exhibit, Saint

John’s University: Alice B. Rogers/Target Gallery,
Collegeville, Minnesota, Juried Show

December 2007, One-Hundred Clay Pigeons, College of

Saint Benedict: Benedicta Arts Center Student Gallery,
Saint Joseph, Minnesota, Group Installation Project

September 2007, Creating Peace, College of Saint

Benedict: Benedicta Arts Center Atrium, Saint Joseph,
Minnesota, Group Show
 January 2007, 11th Annual Juried Student Exhibit, College
of Saint Benedict: Gorecki Gallery, Saint Joseph,
Minnesota, Juried Show

Awards May 2009 – Present, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s

University Honors Program Summer Thesis Research
Fellowship

March 2009 – May 2009, College of Saint Benedict/Saint

John’s University Undergraduate Research Grant for
Creative Project

January 2009, Joseph O’Connell Family Art Scholarship

August 2008 – December 2008, Benjamin A. Gilman

International Scholarship, Institute of International
Education

August 2009 – December 2009, Freeman-ASIA (Awards for

Study Abroad In Asia) Scholarship

August 2009 – December 2009, Japan Student Services

Organization International Student Scholarship

February 2008 – Present, Membership in the Omega

Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma National Academic Honor
Society

August 2006 – Present, College of Saint Benedict/Saint

John’s University Regents’/Trustees’ Academic Scholarship

August 2006 – Present, College of Saint Benedict/Saint

John’s University Visual Art Scholarship

May 2006, Maxine M. Fasen Art Scholarship

Employment January 2009 – Present

College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University Fine Arts
Programming
Saint Joseph, Minnesota
Installation Assistant/Gallery Monitor
Install artwork in campus galleries. Assist gallery visitors.
 August 2006 – May 2009
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University Theater
Department
Saint Joseph, Minnesota
Technical Assistant
Aided in technical operations of campus auditoriums and
theaters. Constructed and painted scenery for department
productions.

Other February 2009

Experience Workshop with Colombian resident artist/activist Liliana
Angulo,
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University,
Saint Joseph, Minnesota
Student Artist Participant
Created art-posters to comment on race and identity in
modern American society under guidance of resident artist
Liliana Angulo.

January 2009 – March 2009; January 2008 – March 2008

Empty Bowls Charity Event, St. Cloud Crisis Nursery/Place
of Hope, Paramount Theatre and Visual Arts Center
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Volunteer
Donated ceramic vessels for the benefit of the St. Cloud
Crisis Nursery/Place of Hope. Provided demonstrations on
wheel-thrown pottery.

March 2008 – April 2008

2008 High School Art Show
Visual Arts Minnesota, Paramount Theatre and Visual Arts
Center
Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Juror
Juried annual area high school art Show sponsored by
Visual Arts Minnesota.

May 2007 – August 2007

Great River Arts Association, Great River Arts Center
Little Falls, Minnesota
Volunteer
Participated in open-studio events to get local teens
interested in art.