Category: Art & Art History

Kevin Gover, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), will present this year’s Herbert and Mary Jane Lefler Lecture at Gustavus Adolphus College at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 in Alumni Hall. The lecture, titled “The Dakota-U.S. War of 1862 and Contemporary Native Memory,” is presented by the College’s Hillstrom…

The 1:50 scale model of the Swedish warship Vasa, a scratch-built project that took Albert Lea artist and model ship builder Clayton Johnson over 7 years to complete, is on display in the Folke Bernadotte Library on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus. The Vasa will remain on display through March. A reception for the artist…

Three special events, a screening of the film Dakota 38, a special round-table discussion featuring guest artists, musicians and lecturers from the Dakota community, and a lecture by the Smithsonian Institution’s Kevin Gover, highlight the Hena Uŋkiksuyapi: In Commemoration of the Dakota Mass Execution of 1862 exhibition which is currently on view at the Hillstrom…

The Hillstrom Museum of Art presents Bruce McClain: A Retrospective Exhibition, which opened in November and runs through January 31, 2014. The exhibition surveys the career of McClain, with nearly sixty paintings, sketches, and prints, covering almost fifty years of work, much of which coincided with the artist’s career at Gustavus Adolphus College from 1965…

Hena Uŋkiksuyapi: In Commemoration of the Dakota Mass Execution of 1862 will be on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art from December 17, 2012 through February 8, 2013, with an opening reception Monday, December 17 from 7 to 9 p.m. Hena Uŋkiksuyapi, Dakota for “we remember those,” features artworks by Dakota and other Native…

150 Years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm (Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum) will be on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College from Monday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Dec. 2. There will be a reception during the College’s Nobel Conference, on Tuesday, Oct. 2 from 6…

Artist Binod Shrestha, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, will present a public lecture as part of a two-long residency in the Gustavus Department of Art/Art History, November 14-15. The residency is funded through the Edgar and Ethel Johnson Endowment for the Arts at Gustavus. Shrestha’s lecture will focus on his…

Kristen Lowe, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at Gustavus Adolphus College, was recently featured on MN Original, Twin Cities Public Television’s award-winning weekly arts series celebrating Minnesota’s creative community, across all disciplines and all cultures.