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Working on Life-Sized Self-Portraits

Students Working on Stone Lithography in the Printmaking Studio

Class Trip to the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago (ART 281 – Art and Architecture of Ancient Near East, Spring 2019).

Student Hao Guo Working in the Ceramics Studio

Student Antonio Sanchez Drawing at the Katherine Ordway Natural History Study Area

Preparing for a Bronze Pour

Photo 1 Class Group Selfie on Last Day of Class

Liu Zhenxiong, a Painter and Calligrapher from Inner Mongolia, Conducts a Demonstration

Lightspeed LED Exposure Unit for Photo-Based Printmaking Processes

Kiln Full of Student Ceramics Work

Angelo Perez, Allegra Berman, & Brett Hunsanger printing stone lithographs, 2019.

Juried Student Exhibition

Former Vice President Walter Mondale with the recipients of the Joan Adams Mondale Scholarship for Ceramics, Avielle Suria Trenche, Simon Koda, and Egzon Sadiku

Former Vice President Walter Mondale Discusses Student Ceramic Work

Figure Drawing Students Drawing Theater Class

Department Staff and Faculty at the Annual Winter Party, 2019

A Painting 1 Class With Their Self-Portraits

A Letterpress Broadside for the Grand Opening of the Joan Adams Mondale Hall of Studio Art, by Erin Holt.

A Close Encounter with Goats During a Drawing Class

A Camera-less Photo Project by Student Alex Rack

A Bronze Pour in the Foundry

2D Design Class Visits the Walker Art Center Design Department

2D Design Class Visits the Adios, Utopia Show at the Walker Art Center

Visiting Artist, Cara Romero, Discussing Her Work, “Water Memory,” With Students, Photo Credit: Professor Joanna Inglot

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) co-sponsored the 2015 Roger Shimomura exhibit in the Law Warschaw Gallery to commemorate Executive Order 9066, interning Japanese American citizens during WWII.

Sydney Petersen ’19 and Phoebe Mol ’19 working on a new mural for the Art & Art History department.

Students in Prof. Joanna Inglot’s class on field trip to the Weisman Museum for Harriet Bart’s exhibition.

‘Quaranteapot’ created by Riley McGlasson ’20 for Professor Summer Hills-Bonczyk’s Ceramics 1 class. The online assignment was to create a vessel made from on-hand materials at home.

Aberdeen Morrow making a 2-color linocut.

Becca Gallandt, Allegra Berman, Brett Hunsanger, EJ Coolidge in the Print Studio, 2019.

Macalester College Art and Art History Department provides an opportunity for students to create and study art.

Art making involves examining, transforming, and communicating individual and collective human experiences into visual form. Art history studies the tangible documentation of culture and provides a window into the history and philosophy of many societies, past and present.

The Art and Art History Department offers majors with emphases in art history and studio art. All our students learn through both observation and hands-on practice.

The department serves the campus and the community through our gallery exhibition program.

A Macalester art degree prepares students for graduate study in art or art history and forms the foundation for professional practice in the arts. The non-major is offered the basis for a lifetime appreciation of the arts. Macalester art students find and create roles for themselves in which they serve their communities through the practice of art, its presentation, documentation, interpretation, appreciation, and conservation.

Visiting Artists

Visiting artists have included Barbara Kruger, Coco Fusco, Nicholas Galanin (Yéil Ya-Tseen), Postcommodity (Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist), Douglas Ewart, Francis Yellow, Hanneline Rogeberg, Michael Mazur, Mark Dion, Catherine Opie, Parastou Forouhar, Camille Billops, Kara Walker, John Hitchcock, June Wayne, Duane Hanson, Mike Konopacki, Nezaket Ekici, Wing Young Huie, Endi Poskovic, Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, Peter Happel Christian, Marnix Everaert, Chris Larson, Sharon Louden, Wang Dong Ling, Tattfoo Tan, Edith Chávez, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Cara Romero, Yvette Mayorga, Dameun Strange and Liu Zhenxiong.

Visiting Scholars

Visiting scholars have included Elizabeth Armstrong, MIA; Stuart Gibson, UNESCO; Maxwell K. Hearn, Metropolitan Museum; Matthew Welch, MIA; Erika Doss, University of Notre Dame; Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University; Pawel Leszkowicz, USC Libraries; Richard Bodman, St. Olaf College; Stephanie Cunningham, Museum Hue; Dr. Wang Chunchen, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Jillian Hernandez, University of Florida, Sinem Arcak Casale, University of Minnesota; and Julia Andrews, Ohio State University.

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