Category: Art & Art History

  • Schaefer Gallery Exhibition Includes Photographs of Fire & Ice

    An exhibition of photographs by Paula McCartney and Lex Thompson titled The Explorers Club is currently on display in the Schaefer Gallery on the campus of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. With support from the Johnson Endowment for the Arts and the Gustavus Artist Series, the collection will be on display through December 8…

  • Lowe Documentary Painting the Place Between to Premiere at Fitzgerald

    Painting the Place Between, a new documentary film produced by Gustavus art professor Kristen Lowe, will be premiered at St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theatre (10 East Exchange Street) on Friday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. A reception at 6:45 p.m. will allow members of the audience to meet the four artists featured in the documentary and…

  • Hillstrom Museum of Art Presents Concurrent Exhibitions

    The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College is currently showing three concurrent exhibitions, Associated American Artists: Art by Subscription, Recent Acquisitions and Debuts of the Hillstrom Museum of Art, and String Theory and the Superconducting Super Collider Series: Paintings by Lucinda Mason. All three exhibitions open through November 10, 2013.

  • Emily Sheehan Exhibition in Schaefer Gallery

    The new season of the Gustavus Artist Series has opened with the installation of a series of works by artist Emily Sheehan as part of an artist-in-residence at Gustavus Adolphus College. The exhibition, New Works by Emily Sheehan, is on display daily in Schaefer Gallery through October 13. An artist reception and lecture will be…

  • 43rd Season of Gustavus Artist Series Announced

    When Baritone Robert Merrill’s performed at the dedication of the new Gustavus recital hall in 1971, the hall named after his friend and colleague Tenor Jussi Björling, a tradition of bringing world-class artists and performers to the Gustavus Adolphus College campus took root. Since Merrill’s performance in the fall of 1971, nearly 200 actors, dance…

  • Works by Betsy Byers & Cameron Jarvis ’15 in DEPARTURES Exhibition at St. Peter Art Center

    DEPARTURES: New Works by Cameron A. Jarvis and Betsy Ruth Byers, will open at the Art Center of St. Peter on August 2. The exhibition of paintings by the two Gustavus artists will be on display at the Art Center through September 8. A reception and artist talk is scheduled at the art center from…

  • Free Press Features Professor Emeritus Bruce McClain

    (Story by Matt Thomas ’00) Gustavus Adolphus College Professor Emeritus Bruce McClain taught in the College’s Art and Art History Department for 46 years from 1965 to 2011. On Thursday, June 20, Mankato Free Press reporter Tanner Kent featured McClain and a current exhibition of his work that is on display at the Waseca Arts…

  • !Look At That, Art Attack! Opens in Hillstrom May 4

    !Look At That, Art Attack! Senior Art Majors Exhibition 2013 will be on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, from Honors Day, May 4, through Commencement, June 2, 2013.  An opening reception will be held as part of Honors Day, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. May 4.  This exhibition is a…

  • Rebecca Silus Exhibition “Borderland” in Schaefer Gallery

    The Department of Art/Art History and the Gustavus Artist Series of Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, are pleased to present and exhibition of new works by Minneapolis artist Rebecca Silus. BORDERLAND will be on display in Schaefer Gallery in the Department of Art/Art History between April 21 and May 9, 2013. An opening…

  • Hillstrom Museum Hosts Two Exhibitions

    SPECIAL SPRING BREAK HOURS FOR THE HILLSTROM MUSEUM: Museum closed: March 29-31 Museum open 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., April 1-5 Museum closed: April 6-7