Dr. Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson is Associate Professor the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She has a Fil.Lic. in art history from Lunds University in Sweden, where she focused on contemporary art and social consciousness, specifically in the work of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon. She also holds an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Ph.D in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota.
Opie has been using photography as a means of self-expression—and making friends through taking their portraits—since age nine.