Fine Arts

Category: Art & Art History

  • Hillstrom Museum of Art Spring Break Hours

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    The Hillstrom Museum of Art will be open with restricted hours during the College’s spring break. The Museum will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday, March 28 through Friday, April 1.  The Museum will be closed during the weekends of March 26/27 and April 2/3. The Museum is pleased to present Many-Fold…

  • Origami Master to Present Public Folding at Gustavus

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    Robert J. Lang, one of the world’s leading masters of origami, who is serving as the 2010-2011 Rydell Professor at Gustavus Adolphus College, will do public foldings of his work on Monday, January 24 from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m., and Wednesday, January 26 from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m., in the lower level of the Jackson…

  • Senior Artists Exhibit at Waseca

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    It is tradition at Gustavus Adolphus College for senior art and art history majors to have their work displayed at the College’s Hillstrom Museum of Art in the Spring. This winter, those seniors will also have the opportunity to show off some of their work in Waseca, Minn., a town 35 miles southeast of St.…

  • Lecture by Acclaimed Green Architect Sarah Nettleton Tuesday

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    With funding from the Department of Art/Art History and the Johnson Endowment for the Arts, acclaimed “green” architect Sarah Nettleton will present a lecture in Wallenberg Auditorium, Tuesday, November 16 at 4:30 p.m. on the Gustavus Adolphus College campus. As part of this day-long residency, one of Nettleton’s creations, The Spear House on the Ottawa…

  • Artist Mike Johnson ’10 Awarded Highpoint Center Internship

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    As Mike Johnson approached graduation in May, 2010, he wasn’t intimidated by the lack of internships or other opportunities in his field: the graphic arts. Nor was he concerned that other fields had more openings available. He continued to watch for options and followed websites of companies whose reputations he knew and respected. His patience,…

  • Grinding, Welding and Lots of Bronze

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    For the second year, senior philosophy major and musician Alexander Legeros left the Gustavus campus and returned home for the summer to work in his father’s business — something not altogether unusual for a college student. For Legeros, however, that means packing his books and his bassoon and trading them for grinders, welders, hearing and…

  • Spring Break Schedule Announced for Hillstrom Museum of Art

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    The special spring break schedule has been announced for the Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College. During spring break, Saturday, March 27 through Monday, April 5, 2010, the Hillstrom Museum of Art will be open limited hours, from 1 to 4 p.m. on Monday-Thursday, March 29-April 1 and Monday, April 5. The regular…

  • Connected with Water Opens at Hillstrom Museum

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    The concurrent exhibitions Connected with Water (Paintings by Gudrun Westerlund) and Swedish-American Works from the Hillstrom Collection will be on view at the Hillstrom Museum of Art from November 23, 2009 through January 29, 2010. There will be an opening reception for the exhibitions on Monday, November 23, 2009, from 7 to 9 p.m. with…

  • Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Lecture Sunday at Gustavus

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    The Hillstrom Museum of Art presents a public lecture by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Curator of Northern Baroque Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, free and open to the public, Sunday, November 1, 3:30 p.m., in Wallenberg Auditorium, Nobel Hall of Science, Gustavus Adolphus College.