Entries tagged with ‘Betsy Byers’

Senior Spotlight: Claire Strohmeyer

The “Senior Spotlight” series honors graduating fine arts majors for their contributions to the Gustavus community. Claire Strohmeyer is a Studio Art major with a Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies minor from Shakopee, Minn. Associate Professor and Chair of Art and Art History Betsy Byers says, “I have seen Claire grow in confidence and increasing […]

Artist Kristen Lowe Featured on MN Original

Documentarian and charcoal artist Kristen Lowe's 2012 MN Original episode will re-air tonight on TPT MN.

Betsy Byers Receives Inaugural “Project Space” Grant

The $10,000 award will support a solo multimedia exhibition inspired by glacier melt and climate change.

“Fruition” featuring work of senior studio art majors opens Saturday

This year’s aptly titled senior art show, “Fruition,” celebrates the culmination of four years of work for seven senior studio art majors. This year’s class is distinctive in that each of the seven artists hold a second major in another discipline. With double majors as diverse as management, classics, and biology, these students are truly […]

Saving Glaciers Through Multisensory Art

The work of Emily Dzieweczynski ’19 and Associate Professor of Art Betsy Byers will be featured in a new exhibit opening today at the 410 Gallery in Mankato. The two recently collaborated to create 0°C, -3°C, a body of multisensory work focused on the melting of the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland. The show is an […]

Byers receives grant for artwork featuring glaciers and climate change

Associate Professor of Art, Betsy Byers, has been awarded the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council Professional Mid-Career Artist Grant for her artwork on climate change and the rapidly melting glaciers at Glacier National Park.