Category: Curricular Connections

On Saturday, March 7th, members of the Twin Cities’ Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble will be performing musical compositions written by seven Carleton students. These students are members of Jeff Treviño’s Composition Studio class, an intimate music course that encourages unique and passionate musical composition with the help of in-class workshops and frequent personal instruction from the professor. In a musical event lasting from 9am to 5pm in the Concert Hall, each student will have one hour to showcase their piece, give an artistic statement about their piece, and receive feedback from a panel of jurors.

Read on for an interview with Josh Ruebeck ’17, a student musician who based his compositions on haiku.

A hectic design lab, connecting a Danish art collective N55 and Carleton students, was transformed on February 6 into a polished exhibition featuring the proposal for a hypothetical new Arboretum Center. On view in Perlman Teaching Museum through March 11, the exhibition reveals the design process incorporating research regarding the Arboretum’s history, Northfield community perspectives on “the Arb”, and experimental structural models. …

As winter term begins, Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery presents a jumble of tables, mysterious metallic structures, and random diagrams and sketches. The “exhibition” contrasts sharply with the orderly student-curated A Collection Embodied in the museum’s smaller gallery.  The story behind this jumble is every bit as unique as the gallery’s appearance.

Carleton’s Perlman Teaching Museum is opening 2015 with a new exhibit titled “A Collection Embodied”, which showcases new artwork recently acquired by Carleton College. This unique compilation of art was selected by a small group of Carleton students participating in a curatorial studies class (ARTH288). The students collaborated with the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Director and Curator, Laurel Bradley. The team’s primary focus was selecting artwork that displays a variety of aspects of the human condition ranging from political allegiances to notions of beauty and social connections. The exhibit includes over forty prints, photographs, ceramics and other creative works selected from the college’s collection of over 600 art pieces acquired since 2006.

The exhibit is open from January 9 to March 11, 2015.

Museum hours

Monday-Wednesday:  11:00AM – 6:00PM
Thursday & Friday: 11:00PM – 9:00PM
Saturday & Sunday: 12:00PM – 4:00PM

Carleton College will host the internationally acclaimed Danish art, architecture and design collective N55 for an arts residency focused public space from January 9 to February 5, 2015. N55 members Ion Sørvin, Till Wolfer, and Anne Roome will collaborate with Carleton students to set up a design laboratory focused on public space by imaging a hypothetical new building complex for the College’s Cowling Arboretum. The residency will include public lectures and events, culminating in an exhibition in the Braucher Gallery of the Perlman Teaching Museum.

Miguel Brieva’s Welcome to the World exhibition of satirical cartoons on the 4^th floor of Gould Library is a thought-provoking cocktail of cutting humor, social and existential meditations, and political commentary, complete with full, vibrant colors. Brieva, a Spanish artist and cartoonist, combines eye-catching imagery with pointed dialogue and descriptions in this darkly comical exhibit.

A nationally touring arts and humanities exhibition, ALWAYS LOST opens October 13th at 7:30 p.m. in the Weitz Center. The opening event will feature a reading by author Jay Moad. In the words of Gertrude Stein: “War is never fatal, but it is always lost. Always lost.”

MEDEA, starring Helen McCrory, will be featured in a screening of the National Theatre’s production currently running in London on Wednesday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m.  (This screening is a previously recorded performance.)

With the People’s Climate March on September 21 and the UN Climate Summit the following week, it’s clear that the environment is literally a hot topic in today’s world. Barry Lopez, whose writings about environmentalism have won him national recognition, will be speaking at Carleton on Thursday, October 2 at 7:00 p.m.

Monday nights at the Weitz Cinema will again see a wide-ranging series of films from around the world, courtesy of the International Film Forum.  Gearing up again on September 22, this term’s slate will also include colloquia with two featured artists, director Oscar Clemente (along with his documentary KEEP ON ROLLING screening October 6) and screenwriter Silvia Nanclares (in conjunction with MUY CERCA and LOS ILUSOS on November 3).