Department News & Events

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 work published in The Siren, an NYC satiric political magazine launched by Coco Fusco, May 1, 2025. She 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, is the recipient of a 2025 Arts Experiences grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She will present the Performance Art Intensive, a 7-day immersive retreat culminating in a public performance. A cast and crew of elders and LGBTQ+ young adults will cocreate a performance with 4,000 pounds of unfired clay.

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

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Any Manner of Animal, the Macalester senior Art major exhibit, opens May 2 2025 in the Law Warschaw Gallery.

Senior Art History major capstones woill be presented May 8, 5-7pm, AC102.

Cameron Patricia Downey, an artist recently showing at the WAC, gave a talk for Art & Art History and the public, on April 10, 2025.

Autumn Knight, experimental artist currently showing at the WAC, gave a talk on Feb. 18, 2025.

2 ArtHAUS drop in art events were held in Spring 2025, in the Studio Art Lounge. Feb. 20, Profs Pierce and Godollei did live patch printing and giveaways.

The Spring Salon, a juried showcase of selections from Macalester studio art classes was in the Law Warschaw Gallery 4/10-4/20 2025.

Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery presented 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.

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