Category: Art & Art History

The Hillstrom Museum of Art will open three concurrent exhibitions on November 21, 2011: Familiar Names, Familiar Faces: Portraiture by Paul Granlund; Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art; and Selections from the Hillstrom Collection. An opening reception for these exhibits is scheduled on Monday, November 21 (7-9 p.m., with brief comments…

Los Angeles based digital artist Alma Lopez will be at Gustavus Adolphus College Wednesday, Nov. 9 to talk about her newly released book Our Lady of Controversy: Alma Lopez’s Irreverent Apparition, and screen her new documentary “I LOVE Lupe.” The event will begin at 7 p.m. in Wallenberg Auditorium, located in the Alfred Nobel Hall…

The Department of Art/Art History and the Office of Alumni Relations is pleased to sponsor Observation Deck, a Schaefer Gallery exhibit of works by alumni artist Megan McCready, Gustavus Class of 2002. The McCready Exhibition opens in Schaefer Gallery on October 27 and runs through November 20, 2011, with an opening reception from 5:00 -…

One of the current exhibitions at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Hillstrom Museum of Art, A Collector’s Passion for Dürer’s Secrets: the MAGJEKL Collection, was featured on Minnesota Public Radio on Friday, Oct. 14.

The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to bring Connecticut collector Elizabeth Maxwell-Garner to the campus to present a public lecture titled “New Secrets in Dürer’s Art” on Sunday, October 16, 2011. Ms. Maxwell-Garner’s lecture will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Wallenberg Auditorium, located in the Nobel Hall of Science.…

The Gustavus Artist Series is pleased to open its season with the photo exhibition, From Sturgis to Testy Festy: Photographing Ephemeral Communities, in Schaefer Gallery (not the Hillstrom Museum) on the Gustavus campus. The exhibition, which includes the work of photographers Amanda Hankerson and Lacy Criswell, runs September 19 through October 14 in Schaefer Gallery. …

The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College will open three concurrent exhibitions on Monday, Sept. 12. The new exhibitions include A Collector’s Passion for Dürer’s Secrets: the MAGJEKL Collection, “Comfort Me, Said He,” Recent Work by Kristen Lowe, and FOCUS IN/ON: Guy Pène du Bois’ Connoisseurs. An opening reception for these exhibits will…

For Evan Taylor ’12 and Russell Heeter ’11, all that was needed was “a character, a plot, a line of dialogue, a genre” and two days to write, set, costume, film, edit and produce a video that earned the Best Student Director award and a nomination for Best Musical Score at this year’s 48-Hour Film…

Senior Show 2011: Insert Title Here _____, is on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art, from May 7, through Commencement, May 29. The exhibition is open to the public at no charge. Regular Museum hours are weekdays 9:00 to 4:00 and weekends 1:00 to 5:00.

The Department of Art/Art History extends an invitation to attend the closing reception of the Telepathy Drawings Exhibition is Schaefer Gallery on April 28 from 4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Gallery talks by artists John Morris and Christina Ayala will begin at 5:00 p.m. The exhibition, currently on display in Schaefer Gallery, is open daily…