CURRICULUM VITAE
Scott Parsons
EDUCATION
1990 M.F.A., University of Colorado Boulder. Thesis exhibition: Removed Epiphanies
1987 B.A. Art, Augustana College, magna cum laude, Regents Scholar
1986 International Studies, HECUA: Bogotá, Managua, San Juan
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2026 Stained glass window, Glashütte Lamberts, Waldsassen, Germany. A Bavarian state-sponsored project for the glassworks whose hand-blown flat glass tradition received UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage recognition in 2023
2025 Station XV: Resurrection, stained glass window, gift of Jane Voskuyl Jackson and David Jackson. Nancy Voskuyl Memorial Prayer Chapel, Westmont College, Montecito, California. Dedicated October 16, 2025
2025 IHS and Madonna della Strada, chapel art glass, two windows. Regis Jesuit High School, Aurora, Colorado
2024 Rose Window, stained glass. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Columbus, Ohio
2024 Carolina in the Morning and Carolina Moon, two epoxy terrazzo floors. Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina
2023 Embrace: St. Benedict and St. Scholastica, chapel art glass. Essentia Health St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth, Minnesota
2021 Stations of the Cross, 15 mosaics. Saint Michael Parish, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2020 Sister Mother Earth, additional panels for Our Lady of the Angels. Franciscan Renewal Center, Paradise Valley, Arizona
2019 Aspire, atrium sculpture and architectural art glass, with David Griggs. Aurora Central Recreation Center, Aurora, Colorado
2018 Cascade, smalti wall mosaic. Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, Greer, South Carolina
2018 Welcoming Gardens, four epoxy terrazzo floors. Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida
2018 Reredos, cross and glass mosaic. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Columbus, Ohio. WSA Studio
2017 Our Lady of the Angels, nine stained glass windows. Franciscan Renewal Center, Paradise Valley, Arizona. WRL Design
2017 El Jardín de los Sueños, ceramic mosaic, 82 sq. ft. Sonia Sotomayor Elementary School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2017 Flights of Fancy, two ceramic mosaics, 288 sq. ft. Sioux Falls Regional Airport, South Dakota. TSP Architects
2016 Foucault’s Dream, 38 ft. Foucault pendulum, with David Griggs. Froiland Science Center, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. SmithGroupJJR and TSP Architects
2016 The Rosary Windows, ten stained glass windows, 200 sq. ft. Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Parish, Foxfield, Colorado. David Owen Tryba Architects
2016 Matchbrush, two epoxy terrazzo floors, 818 sq. ft. Edith Sanford Breast Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Architecture Incorporated
2016 Rainbow’s End, 23-color epoxy terrazzo floor, 79,500 sq. ft., with David Griggs. Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Terminal 3, Florida. Singer Architects; Gresham, Smith and Partners
2015 Holy Spirit, five tumbled smalti floor mosaics. Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. TSP Architects
2014 Saint Michaels Mosaics, three tumbled smalti floor mosaics, 180 sq. ft. Saint Michael Parish, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. TSP Architects
2014 Our Lady of Loreto, sixteen stained glass windows, 300 sq. ft. Foxfield, Colorado. David Owen Tryba Architects
2012 Star Wheel, epoxy terrazzo floor, 1,800 sq. ft. Terminal 2, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minnesota. Metropolitan Airports Commission
2011 Gloria Dei, vitreous enamel stained glass, 730 sq. ft. Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Koch Hazard Architects
2010 Learning to Fly, 9-color epoxy terrazzo floor, 38,500 sq. ft. Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton. O’Neill O’Neill Procinsky; Flad
2006 Prairie Spiral, ceramic floor mosaic, 400 sq. ft. Center for Visual Arts, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Group II
2002 Algorithmic Tapestry, 7-color epoxy terrazzo floor, 10,200 sq. ft. Engineering Centers Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Wisconsin Arts Board. Kohn Pedersen Fox; Flad
2002 Wingscape, 175 ft. stone frieze, ceramic tile murals, and stone columns, with David Griggs. Hurst Hall, Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. Colorado Council on the Arts. Davis Partnership
2002 Community, Technology, and Innovation, five digital murals, with David Griggs. National Cable Television Center and Museum, University of Denver, Colorado. RNL Design
2000 Solstice Window, precast concrete window aligned to the summer solstice sunrise. Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. Colorado Council on the Arts. Klipp Colussy Jenks DuBois Architects
1998 Biomatrices, two 17 ft. stone floor rosaces. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver. Colorado Council on the Arts. Davis Partnership
1997 Ha-no-oo: Star Calendar, granite and marble sidewalk, 500 sq. ft. 16th and California Light Rail Station, Regional Transportation District, Denver, Colorado
1992 Quincentenary Project, 100 burnt tipis and 29 historical markers (temporary), with David Greenlund. Denver Civic Center Park and Colorado State Capitol. Fourth World Center, CU Denver, and the American Indian Movement of Colorado
1992 Reconciliation Project, 22 burnt tipis and 9 historical markers (temporary). Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
AWARDS AND HONORS
2024 CODAawards Merit Award, Liturgical Art
2023 CODAawards Merit Award, Liturgical Art
2023 CODAawards Top 100 Projects
2022 Religious Architecture and Art Award, Religious Arts, Faith & Form/IFRAA, Stations of the Cross, Saint Michael Parish; recognized at the Interfaith Design reception, 2023 AIA Conference on Architecture, San Francisco (Sacred Places)
2018 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award, Visual Arts
2018 CODAawards Top 100 Projects
2018 Sioux Falls Awards in the Arts, Sioux Falls Arts Council
2017 International Hardsurface Award, Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Association of Canada
2016 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award, Visual Arts, The Rosary Windows (Faith & Form)
2016 Terrazzo Design Excellence Award, Central States Terrazzo Association
2015 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award, Visual Arts, Saint Michaels Mosaics (Faith & Form)
2014 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award, Visual Arts, Our Lady of Loreto (Faith & Form)
2014 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award, Visual Arts, Gloria Dei
2014 CODAawards Top 100 Projects
2014 Honor Award, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association
2013 CODAawards Top 100 Projects
2013 Jane Zaloudek Award, Augustana College
2011 Canadian Terrazzo Award and Project of the Year, Terrazzo, Tile and Marble Association of Canada
2008 Honorable Mention, South Dakota Governor’s Third Biennial Art Exhibition
2004 Golden Trowel Award, International Masonry Institute
2002 Job of the Year, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association (Architectural Record)
2001 Work Sample Finalist, Creative Capital, New York
1998 Award of Excellence, Art Directors Club of Denver
1992 Lakota Wopila Honoring, American Indian Movement of Colorado, Denver Indian Center
1987 Harold Spitznagel Medal for Achievement in Art, Augustana College
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2026 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: Painting
2025 Granskou Award for Professional Development, Augustana University
2025 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: Painting
2021 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: Painting
2019 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: “Early Photographic Practices of the 19th Century”
2018 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: “Digital Imaging in Sacred and Public Art”
2016 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: “Our Lady of the Angels: Contemporary Glass Techniques in Architectural Art Glass”
2015 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: “Research in Contemporary Glass Techniques in Liturgical and Architectural Art Glass”
2009 Augustana Research and Artist Fund: “Prints, Paintings and Drawings: Reflections, Condemnation, and Transformation”
2006 Augustana Course Development Award: “Visual Culture and the Sacred,” with David O’Hara
2000 Research Grant, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities: The Lost Medicine People: A Northern Arapaho Oral History
1999 Artist Project Grant, Colorado Council on the Arts: The Colorado Powwow Highway
1998 Open Studio: The Arts Online Award, Colorado Council on the Arts
1996 Tier III Award, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, Denver
1995 COVisions Project Grant, Colorado Council on the Arts
1994 Fellowship, Art Matters, New York
1992 Quincentenary Award, Chinook Fund, Denver
1990 Dean’s Small Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
RESIDENCIES
2013 Artist Residency, Holden Village, Chelan, Washington
KEYNOTES, LECTURES, AND PANELS
2026 Keynote, “How an Architect Has Shaped My 30+ Years in Public Art,” AIA South Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls, October 1
2025 Lecture on my glass work, Willet Studios, Winona, Minnesota, November 14
2025 Keynote, American Glass Guild Conference, Mesa, Arizona, May
2024 “Icons in Transformation,” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of South Dakota, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, November 14
2023 Art and Architecture panel, Association of Consultants for Liturgical Space, Southwest Liturgical Conference Study Week, February
2021 Presentation of recent work, webinar, Association of Consultants for Liturgical Space, June 21
2017 Rail Yard Redevelopment panel, Sioux Falls Design Week, October 7
2013 “Recent Projects,” TSP Architecture, Sioux Falls, October 17
2012 Pecha Kucha 4, Design Center, Sioux Falls, September 7
2011 “Recent Projects,” Site-Integrated Public Art Workshop, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2010 Terrazzo design lectures, Visual Communication Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton
2009 Chair, “Figure Drawing” session, South Dakota College Art Association Conference, Augustana College
2008 “Defining Place: My Experience in Public Art,” South Dakota College Art Association Conference, Black Hills State University
2008 “Visual Culture and the Sacred: Acts of Resistance and Redemption in Art, Film, and New Media,” with David O’Hara, College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas
2002 “Beyond Bricks and Mortar,” School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2002 Wisconsin Tile and Terrazzo Expo, International Masonry Institute, Milwaukee
2001 Gallery talk, William Havu Gallery, Denver
1999 “Phantoms of the High Plains,” South Dakota Humanities Council, Augustana College
1992 “From Wounded Knee to Civic Park,” Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics, University of Colorado Denver
WRITINGS
2012 “Gloria Dei,” Stained Glass 107, no. 2: 140–144, Summer, with cover
2010 With David O’Hara, “Visual Culture and the Sacred: Creative Acts of Resistance and Redemption in Art, Film, and New Media,” in Ronald R. Bernier, ed., Beyond Belief: Theoaesthetics or Just Old-Time Religion, Wipf and Stock
1999 “Artist’s Statement,” Leonardo 32, no. 3, MIT Press
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2025–26 Recent paintings, three-artist exhibition, Koch Hazard, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, November 28, 2025–January 5, 2026
2025–26 South Dakota Governor’s 11th Biennial Art Exhibition, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls; University Art Galleries, University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City
2024 Kunsthaus, Waldsassen, Germany
2024 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2023 South Dakota Governor’s Biennial, Sioux Falls, Aberdeen, Rapid City
2022–23 Glanzlichter einer bedeutenden Kunst, 25th anniversary exhibition, Deutsches Glasmalerei-Museum, Linnich, Germany. Catalog, ISBN 978-3-946278-06-1
2022 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2020 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2019 CODAawards Exhibition, The Octagon Museum, Washington, D.C.
2018 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2018 East Bank Gallery, Sioux Falls
2017 To Reform: Artists Respond to the Reformation, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2017 Koinè, Fiera di Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
2017 Derix Glasstudios: nie tylko witraże, Centrum Dziedzictwa Szkła, Krosno, Poland
2016 Derix Galerie, Taunusstein, Germany
2015 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2013 Into the Dark: Artists Exploring Dark Matter, Lead-Deadwood Arts Center, Lead, South Dakota
2012 P3: Painters, Poets, and Pavilion, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls
2012 South Dakota College Art Association Conference, South Dakota State University, Brookings
2011 Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2010 Then and Now, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2009 P3: Painters, Poets, and Pavilion, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls
2009 SDCAA Faculty Exhibition and Augustana Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2009 Featured Guest Artist, East Bank Art Gallery, Sioux Falls
2009 Mysterious People: Photographic Perspectives, Horse Barn Arts Center, Sioux Falls
2008–09 Endless Imagination: South Dakota Governor’s Third Biennial, Journey Museum, Rapid City; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Dacotah Prairie Museum, Aberdeen; University of South Dakota, Vermillion; South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center, Pierre
2007 Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York
2007 South Dakota College and University Art Faculty Invitational, South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, and Dakota Discovery Museum, Mitchell
2007 South Dakota College Art Association Conference, Northern State University, Aberdeen
2007 Figure Drawing, Horse Barn Arts Center, Sioux Falls
2006 The Nude International, Loudoun House Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
2006 Las Vegas Arts Council, Las Vegas, New Mexico
2006 South Dakota College Art Association Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion
2006 Augustana Art Faculty Exhibition, Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Sioux Falls
2005 Small Print Show, Open Press Gallery, Denver
2004 Life Drawing, solo exhibition, Hye Studio, Denver
2003 The Show: Southwest Juried Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Drawings, William Havu Gallery, Denver
2002 Beyond Bricks and Mortar, Gallery of Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2001 The Photography Show, William Havu Gallery, Denver
2001 101 Vampires, GOOG, Denver
1999 Solo exhibition, Dulaney Architecture, Denver
1998 Solo exhibition, Dulaney Architecture, Denver
1998 Annual Show, Art Directors Club of Denver
1998 Arts on Vine, Denver
1998 Canyon Crossing Gallery, Brattleboro, Vermont
1997 IAC Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1996 William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, Virginia
1996 Nuestra Señora II: Contemporary Visions, Guadalupe Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995 Paintings 1995, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming
1995 Eide/Dalrymple Gallery, Augustana College, Sioux Falls
1995 Five State Photography Exhibition, Hays Arts Center, Hays, Kansas
1995 Robert A. Peck Arts Center, Riverton, Wyoming
1994 Lure of the Local, curated by Lucy Lippard, UMC Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
1993 All Hallow’s Eve, UMC Gallery, Boulder
1993 501 Blues, Core Gallery, Denver
1993 Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Long Island Arts Council, Freeport, New York
1992 Solo faculty exhibition, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
1992 American Indian Resistance, UMC Gallery, Boulder
1991 Social Commentary II, Core Gallery, Denver
1990 Removed Epiphanies, M.F.A. exhibition, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder
1990 Caravan to El Salvador, Rocky Mountain Peace Center, Boulder
1990 Aesthetiphobia II, Pirate, Denver
1990 Images of El Salvador, Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Denver
1990 Religious Legend, Lore and Myth, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
1989 Rochester Fine Arts Center, Rochester, Minnesota
1989 Our Lady of Guadalupe, Colorado Institute of Art, Denver
1987 Two-person exhibition, Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, South Dakota
1986 Salvador, two-person exhibition, Morrison Commons, Augustana College
1986 Core Gallery, Denver
EXHIBITION CURATED
1990 Images of El Salvador: In Remembrance of the Tenth Anniversary of the Assassination of Monseñor Óscar A. Romero, with work by Susan Meiselas, Eugene Richards, John Hoagland, and others. Chicano Humanities and Arts Council, Denver
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Scholarship
2016 Christine Jung, 150 Jahre Derix Glasstudios, Taunusstein
2013 Sam Hitchmough, “‘It’s Not Your Country Any More’: Contested National Narratives and the Columbus Day Parade Protests in Denver,” European Journal of American Culture 32, no. 3: 263–283
2011 Sam Hitchmough, “National Narrative of Conquest: Columbus Day Opposition in Denver, Colorado,” Native Studies Research Network UK Conference, University of Kent
2011 H. Leslie Simmons, Olin’s Construction: Principles, Materials, and Methods, 9th ed., John Wiley and Sons
2010 Sam Hitchmough, “This Is Not Your Country Anymore: Columbus Day Parades and Contested Notions of American Identity,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson
2008 Azusa Ono, Crossroads of Indian Country: Native American Community in Denver, 1950–2005, Arizona State University
2008 Art-n-Transit: A Rider’s Guide to Public Art on RTD’s Transit System, Denver
1998 Art in Public Places 1977–1998 (including cover image), Colorado Council on the Arts
1997 Lucy R. Lippard, The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, The New Press, pp. 111–112
1997 Pauline Turner Strong, “Exclusive Labels: Indexing the National ‘We’ in Commemorative and Oppositional Exhibitions,” Museum Anthropology 21, March: 42–56
1993 Mark A. Sills and Glenn T. Morris, eds., Indigenous Peoples’ Politics, University of Colorado Denver
Articles and Reviews
2026 “Featured Artist: Scott Parsons,” A Cup of CaFÉ, quarterly newsletter of CaFÉ, Western States Arts Federation, August
Artist page, Public Art Archive, Western States Arts Federation
“Scott Parsons,” artist testimonial, Glashütte Lamberts
“The Paradox of Choice,” web article, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association
2025 Scott Craig, “New Window for Prayer Chapel,” Westmont College News, October 23
2025 “Meet Scott Parsons,” CanvasRebel, August 4
2024 “The Economic Power of Public Art,” CODAworx
2023 “Images That Inspire Worship,” Westmont Magazine, Fall
2023 “Faith & Form: The 2022 Religious Architecture and Art Awards,” Sacred Places, Summer
2019 “CaFÉ Spotlight: City of Aurora,” CallForEntry.org, Western States Arts Federation (Aspire, with David Griggs)
2019 Katherine Allen, “Faith & Form’s 2018 Program Recognizes the Best in Religious Architecture and Art,” ArchDaily, January 6
2018 Matthew Palm, “New Welcome Mats Are Latest Addition to Orlando International Airport’s Art,”Orlando Sentinel, September 5
2018 Matthew Palm, “New Art Installed in Floors of Orlando International Airport,” Orlando Sentinel, August 15
2018 Alexa Giebink, “Sioux Falls Arts Council Announces Awards in the Arts Recipients,” Argus Leader, March 12
2017 Kenneth von Roenn, “Back to a Stained-Glass Future: The Work of Scott Parsons at Our Lady of Loreto Church and Gothic Stained Glass,” Faith & Form 50, no. 2: 25–31
2017 Kenneth von Roenn, “The Work of Scott Parsons at Our Lady of Loreto Church,” Stained Glass 112, no. 1: 34–41
2017 Gene Wexler, “Orlando International Airport Debuts New Floor Art,” WDBO News 96.5, December 21
2017 Julie Gargotta, “Orlando International Airport Unveils New Artwork, Wayfinding Points,” Spectrum News 13, December 20
2017 Father Joe Schwab, OFM, “Windows of Inspiration: Conventual Church of Our Lady of the Angels,” The Way of Saint Francis 22, no. 3, Fall
2017 Ambria Hammel, “Feast Day Dedication Celebrates Casa’s Franciscan Heritage,” Catholic Sun, October 10
2017 Melissa Fittro, “Franciscan Renewal Center’s Newest Addition Nears Completion,” Paradise Valley Independent, September 1
2017 “Red Spiral Marks Day of Solstice at Fort Lewis College,” Durango Herald, June 21
2017 Quincy Snowdon, “Art Project to Add Character, Color to New Aurora Rec Center,” Aurora Sentinel, May 26
2017 “Airport Adds Collection of Local Art,” Argus Leader, January 9
2016 Michael J. Crosbie, “Annual Awards Issue,” Faith & Form 49, no. 4
2016 “Faith & Form Reveal 2016’s Top 28 Religious Buildings,” Architecture & Design, December 14
2016 Antonia Blumberg, “28 Sacred Spaces That Capture the Stunning Beauty of Religious Architecture,” The Huffington Post, December 14
2016 Kit Doyle, “Architecture Award Winners Use Natural Light to Give a Sense of the Divine,” Religion News Service, December 12
2016 “Faith & Form’s 2016 Religious Architecture Awards Recognize 28 Projects from Around the Globe,”ArchDaily, December 6
2016 Aaron Lambert, “Rosary Mysteries Stun in New Windows,” Denver Catholic, July 11–24
2015 Michael J. Crosbie, “Annual Awards Issue,” Faith & Form 48, no. 4
2015 Jeff Favre, “Big Award for Artist Is Chance to Inspire,” The Lutheran, June
2014 “Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Design Awards 2014,” Faith & Form 47, no. 4
2014 Front cover, “2012–2013 AIA South Dakota Design Awards,” Architecture SD 5, no. 1, Winter 2014–15
2014 Colleen O’Connor, “Abstract Angels,” The Denver Post, front page, Sunday, December 21
2014 Colleen O’Connor, “New Stained-Glass Windows in Denver Area Evoke Presence of Angels,” The Denver Post, online, December 20
2014 Jill Callison, “Art on the Floor: Local Church Adds Mosaics,” Argus Leader, December 13
2014 Virginia Olson, “Scott Parsons on a Mission for Public Art,” Argus Leader, November 29
2014 Sonya Ellingboe, “Foxfield Church’s Glass Offers Astonishing Art,” Littleton Independent, March 26
2014 Julie Filby, “Windows Reflect Kingdom of God,” Denver Catholic Register, March 12
2014 Julie Filby, “New Windows Reflecting ‘Heavenly Denver’ to Be Blessed,” Denver Catholic Register, March 4
2013 “Commissioning Beauty,” American Craft, August/September
2013 Dale Rodebaugh, “Spiraling Summer Solstice at FLC,” Durango Herald, June 21
2012 “Mosaic Designed by Scott Parsons Unveiled at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport,” The Augustana, Autumn
2012 John Welbes, “Twin Cities Airport’s Humphrey Expansion Sets Stage for Growth,” Pioneer Press, October 9
2011 John Andrews, “Writers and Artists: Stained Glass Revelation,” South Dakota Magazine, November/December
2011 Renee Wielenga, “Coloring His World,” Northwest Iowa Review, June 25
2011 Dale Rodebaugh, “On Year’s Longest Day, a Special View,” Durango Herald, June 21
2011 Trent Opstedahl, “South Dakota History in Glass,” Argus Leader, June 16
2010 Virginia Olson, “Artist Scott Parsons Finds Motivation in Public Art,” Argus Leader, November 7
2010 Kirstie Wollman, “Painters, Poets, Professors,” Augustana Mirror, January 22
2010 Jodi Lundgren, P3 exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion
2009 Emily Spartz, “Studying David,” Argus Leader, October 15
2009 Ed Kaiser, “CCIS Tour,” Edmonton Journal, October 19
2009 Katie Buford, “Summer Solstice,” Durango Herald, June 22
2009 Mitch Davis, “Center of Southwest Studies Solstice Event,” Pagosa Springs Daily News, June 15
2008 Ashley White, “Art Professor Blends History, Tradition in Public Art Project,” Augustana Mirror, October 10
2008 Mary Delorie, “Starring Scott Parsons,” HECUA Newsline, Spring
2008 “Exhibit Celebrates Art, Artists of South Dakota,” Rapid City Journal, February 18
2008 “Journey Hosts Governor’s Third Biennial Art Exhibition,” The Turtle Times, Winter
2007 Jay Kirschenmann, “Artful Amphibians,” Argus Leader, December 20; reprinted in Augustana Today, Spring 2008
2007 Christina Knickerbocker, “Solstice Spiral,” Durango Herald, June 22
2007 Mitch Davis, “Summer Arrives Right on Cue,” Messenger, June/July
2007 Jay Kirschenmann, “Can Do, Can Teach: Art Exhibit Shows Off Works by State’s Faculty,” Argus Leader, May 31
2006 Alan Van Ormer, “Art Elements Add to Architecture,” Prairie Business, November
2006 Jay Kirschenmann, “New Home for Augie Art,” Argus Leader, September 22
2006 Emily Drommerhausen, “The Center for Visual Arts: Inspiration, Installation,” Augustana Today, Spring
2006 “Drawing Professor’s Mosaic Growing at Augustana,” Argus Leader, February 4
2006 “Artist’s Mosaic Reflecting South Dakota to Adorn Floor,” Argus Leader, January 27
2005 Ron Robinson, “Art Coming and Going, Here Frozen in Time,” Etc., May
2003 “NTMA Honor Award: Job of the Year,” Architectural Record, September
2003 “2002 in Review: Public Art,” Art in America 91, no. 8: 57, August
2002 Jacob Stockinger, “Exhibit Turns Spotlight on Percent for Art,” Wisconsin Week, November 20
2002 Jacob Stockinger, “A Pittance for Beauty,” The Capital Times, October 30
2002 “New Engineering Building Is a Center for the Arts, Too,” University of Wisconsin News, September 9
2002 Karen Rivedal, “Science into Art,” Wisconsin State Journal, July 10
2001 “Recent Projects,” Public Art Review 25, Fall/Winter
2001 Roberta Bloom, “Art in Public Places,” Colorado Visions, Fall
2001 Mary Voelz Chandler, “‘101 Vampires’ a Mouthful,” Rocky Mountain News, October 5
2001 Michael Paglia, “Summertime Views,” Westword, July 26
2001 Mary Voelz Chandler, “Gallery Stages ‘Group Portrait,’” Rocky Mountain News, July 13
2001 Judith Reynolds, “Artwork Shines at FLC Solstice Celebration,” Durango Herald, front page, June 22
2001 “Best Bets,” The Denver Post, June 22
2000 Roberta Bloom, “Our Public Art Collection: An Expression of Colorado,” Colorado Visions, Spring
1998 Joe Miller, “Concrete Amnesia: Joe Miller Tracks Scott Parsons’ Star Calendar,” Art Papers 22, no. 6: 25, November/December
1998 “Recent Projects,” Public Art Review 19, Fall/Winter
1998 “Commissions in Brief,” Sculpture, October
1998 “Biomatrices,” Colorado Visions, Fall
1998 “Recent Projects,” Public Art Review 18, Spring/Summer
1998 Roberta Kaserman, “Art in Public Places,” Colorado Visions, January
1998 Romalyn Tilghman, “Around and About,” Arts Rag, January
1997 Deborah Karasov, “American Grounding: Comments on the Art of Elegy,” Public Art Review 17, Fall/Winter
1997 Jeff Bradley, “Stories Spice Walkway’s Dedication,” The Denver Post, October 22
1997 Helen Davis, “Stars Under Their Feet,” The Denver Post, front page, October 21
1994 Steven Rosen, “Grants a Reward to Colorado Artists for Creative Innovation,” The Denver Post, November 20
1994 Kathy Kaiser, “Panorama Picks: The Lure of the Local,” Boulder Weekly, April 7
1993 Julie Jargon, “Eerie ‘Hallow’s Eve’ Exhibit Opens at UMC Galleries,” Campus Press, October 21–27
1993 Tom Noel, “AIM Aims to End Columbus Day Clashes with Aspen in Civic Center,” The Denver Post, October 16
1993 “Día de las Brujas,” Silver & Gold Record, October 14
1993 Lucy R. Lippard, “Sniper’s Nest: Folding the Tents,” Z Magazine, May
1993 Denise Uyehara, “Counter-Memorial,” High Performance 16, no. 1: 19, Spring
1993 Mary Motian-Meadows, “Reflections on Native American Art in Colorado,” Colorado Arts, December–January
1992 Glenn T. Morris, “American Indian Movement of Colorado Stops Columbus Day Parade in Denver,” American Indian Anti-Defamation Council Newsletter, December
1992 Ken Abbott, “Tepee Display Symbolizes Indian Massacre,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 28
1992 “Burnt Offering,” Colorado Daily, October 21
1992 “Tepees of Protest,” Boulder Daily Camera, October 20
1992 “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,” Campus Press, University of Colorado Boulder, October 15
1992 Gemma Lockhart, “A Day to Come Together,” USA Today, October 12
1992 Patrick O’Driscoll, J. Sebastian Sinisi, and Jim Carrier, “Columbus Parade Canceled,” The Denver Post, October 11
1992 Ward Merchant, “Columbus Parade Canceled,” Associated Press, October 11
1992 “Columbus Day Parade Canceled to Avoid Protests,” Los Angeles Times, October 11
1992 Michael Mehle, “Tepee Skeletons to Haunt Parade Route,” Rocky Mountain News, October 10
1992 Jim Carrier, “Marchin’ Orders Out for Parade,” The Denver Post, October 10
1992 “Indians, Italians Discuss Parade,” Associated Press, September 23
1992 Jim Carrier, “Collision Course for Parade, Tepees,” The Denver Post, front page, September 22
1992 Doug Detisch, “Professor Captures Life through Photos,” St. Peter Herald, February 6
1990 Carmen Atilano, “Images of El Salvador,” Quinto Sol, March
1987 Charles Nauman, “Painter Depicts Struggle, Hope in Latin America,” Rapid City Journal, September 20
1987 Laurel Hensel and Kurt Reichardt, eds., Moments, National Lutheran Campus Ministry
1987 David Galusha and Jeanne Moore, eds., “A World at War,” Catholic Teen, October
Broadcast, Video, and Podcast
2021 Linda Witte Henke, Artist Interviews with Liturgical Visual Artists, Center for Church Music, Concordia University Chicago, January
2019 “Scott Parsons: Sacramental Imagination,” Talking Out Your Glass, September
2017 Vintage Flip, Season 2, Episode 8, HGTV (Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport project), July
2016 Damian Fitzsimmons, Rainbow’s End, documentary film on the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport terrazzo by David Griggs and Scott Parsons, selected for the Broward County Film Commission database
2014 Colleen Smith, producer, Angels Alleluia: Nine Orders of Angels According to Scriptures, Saints and Scholars, Rocky Mountain PBS, December 22
2014 Blaise Keller, “Church Mosaic Honors Deceased Member,” KDLT-TV, December 11
2013 Amy Varland, “South Dakota Artists Explore Dark Matter,” South Dakota Public Broadcasting, July 11
2012 Star Wheel dedication coverage, KARE (NBC), KSTP (ABC), KAAL (ABC), October 10
2011 Perry Groten, “Gloria Dei’s Gospel in Glass,” KELO-TV, June 17
2011 “Stained Glass Installation,” KSFY-TV, June 15
2006 Greg Lund, KELO-TV News, January 26
2001 The Solstice Window by Scott Parsons, video, collection of the Center of Southwest Studies, Durango, Colorado
1997 David Gregg, KCNC-TV Denver, September 29 and October 20
1994 Ed Greene, interview with Jacquie Creazzo, KCNC-TV Denver, April 22
1992 CNN, October 13
1992 Mosaic: Special on the Quincentenary, KCNC-TV Denver, October 10; with KUSA-TV and KMGH-TV news coverage, October 9–10
1990 Manu Ghasfari, “Latin American News,” interview, KGNU Boulder County Public Radio, August 5
TEACHING
2018– Professor of Art, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2022–25 Chair, Department of Art, Augustana University
2013–16 Chair, Department of Art, Augustana University
2011–17 Associate Professor of Art, Augustana University
2005–11 Assistant Professor of Art, Augustana College
1996–2005 Instructor, Platt College, Aurora, Colorado
1995 Instructor, Denver School of the Arts
1992–93 Visiting Instructor, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
1988–90 Graduate Instructor, University of Colorado Boulder
Study-away Interim courses: Peru (2007, 2008); Germany and France (2012, 2013); Mexico (2026; 2028 scheduled)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2024– Visual Arts Committee, City of Sioux Falls, appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council
2022– Board of Directors, Association of Consultants for Liturgical Space
2026 Juror, Willet Art Prize
2018 Juror, Americas 2018 All Media, Minot State University
2009 With Lindsay Twa, brought critic James Elkins to Augustana as keynote speaker for the South Dakota College Art Association Conference
2009 Juror, Eleventh Annual Mayor’s Awards for the Arts, Sioux Falls
2008 Juror, Tenth Annual Juried Show, Horse Barn Arts Center, Sioux Falls
2007 Juror, Art Falls Art Festival, Sioux Falls
Augustana University: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (2020–23); Global Education Committee (2008–13, 2017–19); Board of Trustees Representative to HECUA (2007–13)
Member, College Art Association
COLLECTIONS
Western History Collection, Denver Public Library
LANGUAGES
Spanish (fluent)