The next presentation of the Dorothy Godtland Lecture Series will be the “Art of Doll Making” by Agnes Boss, according to a press release. The presentation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at The Albert Lea Art Center. Doors will open at 6 p.m. The presentation is free and open to the public. The speaker will be Nebraska native Agnes Boss, 94.

She attended college, taught country school, worked in California as a civilian for the Air Force during World War II and worked at Fairmont Foods, where she met her future husband. 

She is a mother of three, grandmother, great-grandmother and an artist.

As a parent, she sewed clothes for her daughters and herself, made dolls for them, made draperies, painted her home inside and out, planted gardens, built furniture and toy boxes, and created the wooden logo for Albert Lea’s West Medical Clinic

As an artist, she carves wood, paints portraits and landscapes with acrylics and oils, designed and built the July 3, 2011, Albert Lea Art Center award-winning parade float “American Gothic,” and imagines and creates dolls made from wood, fabrics, wire, Sculpey clay and dried apples, among other things.

She will share the techniques she uses to build and create her hand-made, one-of-a-kind dolls.