Category: Art & Art History
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From These Hands: Fiber Art and Poetry by Gwen Westerman Opens at Hillstrom Museum of Art
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Running from Feb. 15 through April 18, the exhibit highlights the quilt art that celebrates the artist’s Dakota ancestors.
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“An Active and Urgent Telling” Brings Lived Experiences to Schaefer Art Gallery
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In partnership with Strange Fire Collective, the Gustavus Department of Art and Art History will host the exhibition from Feb. 11-March 17.
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Artist Kristen Lowe Featured on MN Original
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Documentarian and charcoal artist Kristen Lowe’s 2012 MN Original episode will re-air tonight on TPT MN.
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Betsy Byers Receives Inaugural “Project Space” Grant
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The $10,000 award will support a solo multimedia exhibition inspired by glacier melt and climate change.
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Five Questions with Filmmaker Scott Fitzloff ’06
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The California-based filmmaker has worked on everything from television commercials to feature-length documentaries.
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Bringing the Dinosaurs Back to Life: Alumni at the Intersection of Art and Science
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Most of us don’t get to say we work with dinosaurs for a living. For Gustavus art alum Tim Quady ’91, however, dinosaurs are just part of everyday life. Twenty-three years ago, he started Blue Rhino Studio, a custom design and artistic fabrication studio that does work for natural history museums around the world. While…
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The Arts at Nobel Conference 56
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The move of Nobel Conference 56: Cancer in the Age of Biotechnology to an online format has opened the door to a new level of creativity from fine arts students involved with the conference. While preparations for this year’s conference began well before COVID-19 hit, they continued to evolve right up until the performances were…
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Fall art exhibits to open online and in-person
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While things look a little different this fall, three art exhibits are opening at Gustavus Adolphus College this week. Cancer Never Had Me: Views by Artists and Artists Who Had Cancer: Works from the Hillstrom and Shogren-Meyer Collections open September 14 in the Hillstrom Museum of Art. The Now and After, a science and science-fiction…
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Five Questions with Katie Kangas ’10
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Gustavus Adolphus College studio art and art history alumna Katie Kangas ’10 took a few minutes to talk with us about starting her own architecture firm, Pasque Architecture, and what she’s been up to since graduation. While a student at Gustavus, Kangas took advantage of all that the liberal arts had to offer. She toured…
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Senior Spotlight: Emily Logan
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The “Senior Spotlight” series honors graduating fine arts majors for their contributions to the Gustavus community. Emily Logan is a studio art major from Cambridge, Minn. Next fall she plans to continue developing her art portfolio and eventually attend graduate school for art conservation. Associate Professor in Art and Art History Betsy Byers has worked…