Category: Art and Art History

Associate Professor of Art History Ross Elfline presented a paper titled “Learning to Live with Radical Design: Haus-Rucker-Co LIVE! in New York” at a conference co-sponsored by the European Architectural History Network and the Design History Society of the UK.

Associate Professor of Art History Ross Elfline wrote an essay titled “Diane Simpson: Performance, Ornament, and Crime,” on the occasion of Chicago-based artist Diane Simpson’s Twin Cities residency with FD13. The performance work, the artist’s first, was staged on Saturday, June 1 in Minneapolis, and will be reprised at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago on Thursday, July 25.

Associate Professor of Art History, led a Los Angeles art gallery tour for alums on April 27 as part of Carleton’s regional alumni clubs program. Whether joining for part or all of the day, 32 alums, family, friends, and parents of current students enjoyed the diversity of the galleries, Professor Elfline’s expertise, and captured a glimpse of the vibrant LA art scene within three very distinct neighborhoods: Culver City, Hollywood, and Downtown. Learn more about the event and the galleries visited.

Associate Professor of Art History, Baird Jarman, presented a paper titled “The Trouble with Thomas Nast,” about Gilded-Age political caricature in the United States. He spoke at Washington University in St. Louis on March 22 at the multi-disciplinary symposium Illustration Across Media: Nineteenth Century to Now, organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies.

Levi Atkinson ’19, a studio art and art history double major from Albany, Oregon, tells us about his senior capstone experience, or “Comps,” in support of both degrees.

Amanda Zeilinger ’19, a studio art and art history double major from Shaker Heights, Ohio, tells us about her senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of her studio art degree.

Associate Professor of Art History, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the College Art Association on February 14. Presenting on a panel on the topic “Being With: Thoughts on the Collective,” his paper, titled “Common Ground: Haus-Rucker-Co’s Food City and Collaborative Design Practice,” considered a series of performances by the Austrian architecture design collective Haus-Rucker-Co for which scale models of various cities made out of cake were ritually devoured by citizens of those cities. This essay will appear in the Walker Art Center’s online Living Collections Catalog later this summer.

William Lanzillo ’19, a studio art and psychology double major with an Africana studies minor from Glen Ellyn, Ill., tells us about his senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of his studio art degree.

Fred Hagstrom will give an Artist Talk at the Bainbridge Museum of Art on March 31, 2019. During this talk, Fred will discuss the context of his body of work and focus on two specific books that speak of the Seattle area and Japanese American history.