ACLS board member, Scott Parsons recently received a 2024 Top 100 CODA Awards recognition in liturgical art for his work at Essentia Health – St. Mary’s Medical Center.
Project Team Members:
Scott Parsons, lead artist
Olaf Hanweg, glass painter
Commissioned by Essentia Health – St. Mary’s Medical Center
Scott Parsons is an international award-winning artist. He has received numerous public art commissions across the United States and Canada. His portfolio includes percent-for-art and private commissions for churches, museums, airports, hospitals, research facilities, university buildings and transportation centers.
Parsons’ work is reviewed in more than 100 publications, including Architectural Record, Sculpture, Art in America, Stained Glass Quarterly, Public Art Review, Leonardo, the European Journal of American Culture, High Performance, and Museum Anthropology. He has received numerous national and international awards for his art, including: six awards from the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA), a Knowledge Community of the American Institute of Architects; four CODAworx Awards; and two National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association Honor Award(s).
The artist received his M.F.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his bachelor’s degree in art from Augustana University where he teaches painting, drawing, and a travel course in architectural art glass.