Artist Michael Loderstedt is Associate Professor of Fine Arts as well as the Division Coordinator for the School of Arts at Kent State and has also taught at the College of Wooster. He has exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, SPACES, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art May Show. Loderstedt received a BFA from East Carolina University in Greenville and MFA from Kent State University.

His work has been recently exhibited in solo exhibitions in Italy at the Santa Reparata Gallery in Florence and the Kulturrathaus in Dresden, the Alte Feuerwache Galerie in Loschwitz, and as part of Portrait 100 Project in Hellerau, Germany. Other recent exhibition venues have included the Print Center in Philadelphia and the International Print Center in New York and the City = Graphics exhibition at the Frank Taal Galerie in Rotterdam, Holland.