Lehnhoff Bio

Donald Lehnhoff

Lehnhoff's career is as creative as his endeavors. Beginning with study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland, he went on to tour professionally as a musician. His 12 year music career included national performance and television, recording in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Nashville, and two years in a U.S. Army Band. Opting for family life, he turned the skills used as a band leader to the needs of public housing and residential/commercial property management, establishing a reputation as a creative problem-solver. A third career in writing and art began in 1987 with the opening of his professional résumé and business writing service in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later to the position of Art Director for a national manufacturer of corporate incentives and awards. Today, Don works as a Sales Consultant to corporations and organizations for their promotional and incentive programs, while pursuing writing and art & design on a free-lance basis.

Featured works....

Sir Hog - a sampling of comic strips exploring the work of a devil-may-care tycoon who left his agricultural heritage behind to conquer the world, but hasn't been able to entirely shake the rural dust - and characters - from his boots and his life.
Foster - a contemporary fairy tale of coming into the world as a stranger and finding your way. Beautiful illustrations.
American Dreamer - a short opinion piece sparked by a quiet movement in the Minnesota State Legislature in the spring of 1995 to seek a renegotiation of the state's Indian Gaming Pact. The unabashed intention was to gain a "piece of the action" for the state, since state taxation of tribal gaming is prohibited by Federal law. This piece aired on KTCA-TV's Newsnight Minnesota program in May, 1995.