Marjorie Mikasen

Marjorie Mikasen (born 1959) is an abstract, geometric, hard-edge acrylic painter working in Lincoln, Nebraska. She has a degree in studio arts from The University of Minnesota. She is co-author with Mark Griep of the nonfiction book Re'Action!' Chemistry in the Movies.

Early and personal life Mikasen was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. She is of Serbian descent. She attended The University of Minnesota, is a Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1981 received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts.

Artist In 1986 she lived and worked as a full-time artist in Denver, Colorado. Mikasen moved in 1990 to Lincoln, Nebraska,

She received an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Nebraska Arts Council in 2007. and one of her works was included that year in the "Nebraska Arts Council Awardees" exhibition at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art.

Her works have been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Hungary and the United Kingdom in more than 100 group exhibitions. In Nebraska, her works have been shown in solo exhibitions. and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

She was president of the Nebraska Women's Caucus for Art (NWCA) in 1997. University of Nebraska Medical Center, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus.

Author Mikasen is the coauthor with chemist Mark Griep of the nonfiction book Re'Action!' Chemistry in the Movies, which explores the political, social, and psychological aspects of chemistry of over 140 films and gives the perspectives of a scientist and artist on the "dark and bright sides" of the portrayal of chemistry in motion pictures. She and Griep were awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant in the area of Public Understanding of Science to research and write the book. Mikasen created a work entitled Jekyll & Hyde for the book.

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