Category: Visual Art

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.

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

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, gave two invited talks, one at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, British Columbia, the other at the Watershed Clay Forum V at New York University. In addition, Abbott Northwestern Hospital commissioned a sculptural piece titled Stream & flowers, which now hangs in the Piper Breast Center in Minneapolis.

Associate Professor of Art, Kelly Connole, recently learned an image of her installation “From Here To There” was chosen as the cover art for Su Smallen’s new book of poetry titled Kinds of Snow (Green Writers Press). Also, the February 26, MN Original segment featuring Connole has been nominated for a 2016 Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Award.

Juliane Shibata, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, co-curated “道 Michi–Distinctive Paths, Shared Affinity: An Exhibition of Japanese American Ceramic Artists,” a traveling show that was included in the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) 50th Anniversary conference programming in March. The Michi exhibit is supported by the Embassy of Japan and will visit Carleton this fall.

Associate Professor of Art Kelly Connole was the subject of a recent video documentary on MN Original.

Ross Elfline, Assistant Professor of Art History, was lead consultant for the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, which opened at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 23. The exhibition will be on view until February 28, 2016 before traveling to the Cranbrook Art Center in Michigan, and then to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in California. Ross also led the opening weekend panel discussion with the exhibition’s curator and three contributors to the exhibition catalog. In addition, his essay “Radical Bodies,” which focuses on how avant-garde architectural works posit the human body, is featured in the catalog, which is now in bookstores.

“Painter Dan Bruggeman is interested in the places between urban and suburban; landscapes which are uniquely American. His paintings portray vignettes where humans have altered the natural environment for entertainment purposes.”

MN Original is Twin Cities Public Television‘s award-winning weekly arts series celebrating Minnesota’s creative community, across all disciplines and all cultures. The show recently profiled senior lecturer in art Dan Bruggeman.