Category: Art and Art History

Steven Mohring designed the set for the next Ten Thousand Things Theater Company’s production of The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht. Public performances will be held May 3 through 6, 17 through 20 and 24 through 27 at St Paul’s ELCA, May 10 through 13 and May 31 through June 3 at the Open Book.

Jessica Keating, Assistant Professor of Art History, presents “Collecting Exotica, Picturing New Worlds” at the Getty’s exhibition “Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India” on April 8, 2018.

Alison M. Kettering, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art History, Emerita, and Heidi Eyestone, Curator of the Visual Resources Collection, announce the publication of the Winter 2018 issue of  Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Alison is Editor-in-Chief; Heidi is Managing Editor; and Noah Scheer ’18 and Joe Druckman ’19 are student assistants.  The journal is celebrating its tenth year.

Instructor in Art Danny Saathoff exhibits an immersive art installation about ice formation and the effects of climate change on Lake Superior. February 20-March 3 at the Grand Marais Art Colony.

Jessica Keating will present “Early Modern Automata: Animating Art History” at the “New Approaches to Preindustrial Technology: Bodies, Minds, and Machines” International Workshop at Yale University in April 2018.

Fred Hagstrom is one of 16 artists and scientists exhibiting in a show at Grinnell College Feb. 2–June 10, 2018.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Visual Arts grant to create three new installations that integrate living flowers with her ceramic ones. She will unite floriography, a language of flowers that has traditionally been rooted in the female experience, with her ceramic practice to produce works that combine specific cultural and historical themes in ways that widen Minnesota’s artistic heritage. MSAB funds will also allow Shibata to professionally document her work and approach exhibition venues in Minnesota about displaying her installations.

Meghan Tierney, Robert A. Oden, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Humanities and Art History, delivered her talk “Early Nasca Sculputural Effigy Vessels in Context” at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies in Berkeley, CA.

“The Professors” November 11-December 23, 2017. Opening Reception, Saturday, November 11 from 6-8 pm

Baird Jarman, Associate Professor, Art History presented “Beaten to the Punch: Fake News Illustrations of the 1860 Boxing Championship” at the 42nd annual conference of the The American Printing History Association.