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News
Lela Pierce, Assistant Professor of Art in Sculpture, had a solo exhibit at SooVAC gallery, Mpls., The Unknown Thing that Frees You, Sept. 20-Oct. 29, 2024 and a solo exhibit at Cyrus M. Running Galley of Concordia College, Moorhead, MN Oct. 8-Nov. 17, 2024. She received a prestigious Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, which supports early-career Minnesota and New York City-based artists who generate new work that takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or reimagining conventional artistic forms. See an interview with the artist.
Dr. Serdar Yalcin, Associate Professor of Art History, received a premier Getty Residential Scholar Grant to support research at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, Fall 2024.
Professor Megan Vossler, Dep’t. Chair, organized a 4th incarnation of Ekphrastic Drawing at SooVAC in Mpls, Summer 2024. Several Macalester faculty members, art alumni and current students participated in the collaborative multi-panel storytelling drawing experiment, later interpreted by writers.
Ruthann Godollei, Wallace Professor of Art, had a solo exhibit at SooVAC gallery, Mpls., titled Fast & Loose, Sept. 20-Oct. 29, 2024. She was an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA , May 2024.
2 Mac art ‘alums’, daughter and father art professors Monica and Jerry Rudquist, have a joint exhibit at Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN, until March 16, 2025. Monica Rudquist majored in studio art at Mac and Jerry Rudquist taught in the Mac Art Dep’t. for 45 years. https://gallery.stkate.edu/exhibition/reflections-and-conversations-monica-rudquist-and-jerry-rudquist
Summer Hills-Bonczyk, Assistant Professor (NTT) in Ceramics, completed an artist’s residency at the Hambidge Center in Georgia in Fall 2024.
Dr. Joanna Inglot, Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor of Art History, has had her research on artist Magdelena Abakanowic heralded by the Tate Modern as the foundation of their exhibit Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope (November 17, 2022–May 21, 2023). See an interview with Prof. Inglot.
Events
Autumn Knight, experimental artist currently showing at the WAC, will give a talk on Feb. 18, 7pm, AC102. Free and open to the Mac community.
2 ArtHAUS drop in art events will be held in Spring 2025. Feb. 20 and March 25, noon -12:45pm in the Studio Art Lounge. Feb. 20, join Profs Pierce and Godollei for a live patch printing and giveaway event.
The Spring Salon, a juried showcase of selections from Macalester studio art classes will be held in the Law Warschaw Gallery 4/10-4/20 2025.
Look for the annual Senior Studio Art majors exhibition in the Law Warschaw Galley opening 5/2/2025.
The Koch Gallery, inside the Joan Mondale Hall of Studio Art, hosted an interactive drawing event in conjunction with the International Roundtable. The IRT theme was Slowing Down, Seeking Roots, Making Sanctuary: Belonging Beyond the Anthropocene. Alumnus and current faculty member Nicole Simpkins designed this year’s poster. Participatory drawing is free and open to all this week. Closing party Oct. 11, 12:45 -2:15pm.
Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery is currently presenting selections from the permanent collection, including artwork by Joan Mitchell, Judy Chicago, Luis Fitch, Jim Denomie, Judith Roode, Paristou Forouhar, George Morrison and many more. Feb.-March 2025.