Fine Arts Weekly Preview: March 27 to April 2

This week features a student recital by Sonny Selikoff, the closing of the MSU Prints exhibition at the Schaefer Art Gallery, as well as the continuation of the Nicolas Darcourt and Elizabeth Catlett exhibits in the Hillstrom Museum of Art.

Sonny Selikoff ’23, Student Recital
Friday, March 31 | 7:30 p.m.
Björling Recital Hall

MSU Prints: John Winkler and Students
Exhibit open: M F 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and  5 p.m. on Weekend
Schaefer Art Gallery
February 27 – March 31
Closing Week!

The Schaefer Arts Gallery presents MSU Prints: John Winkler and students exhibit. Josh Winkler, Associate Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato explores how: “the difficult narratives of Euro-American westward expansion and the destruction of forests and waterways continue to teach lessons on sustainability, the importance of our natural resources, and cultural discrimination. My work encourages people to think about their relationship to the environment, history, and the present moment.”

Improvised Structures: Recent Sculptural Works by Nicolas Darcourt
Mon-Fri 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Sat-Sun
Hillstrom Museum of Art
February 13 – April 23, 2023

Nicolas Darcourt teaches ceramics in the Art and Art History Department at Gustavus Adolphus College.  His ceramic works use press-molded objects and hand-built shapes to focus on a mix of architectural ornament, exposed layers of earth, engineered forms, monument, and manufactured byproduct.  These coalesce into accumulations which express abstract notions of the confluence of memory, geography, and society.

Elizabeth Catlett in the Hillstrom Museum of Art
Mon-Fri 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Sat-Sun
Hillstrom Museum of Art
February 13 – April 23, 2023

African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) is considered through recently acquired works and through new poetry by exhibition collaborator Philip Bryant, a faculty member in the African/African Diaspora Studies Program and the English Department of Gustavus Adolphus College.  Catlett’s artworks and Bryant’s poetry are supplemented by paintings by Catlett’s contemporaries Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) and Eldzier Corter (1916-2015), lent by the Art Bridges Foundation of Bentonville, Arkansas.