Exhibition Archive

Linda Rossi, Kelly Connole, Fred Hagstrom, Dan Bruggeman, David Lefkowitz, & Stephen Mohring make work inspired by college collections.

Celebrating 19 students’ works created in sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, metals, photography, and installation.

The Minnesota Museum of American Art, based in St. Paul, shares its rich collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, photography and craft objects through an exhibition hosted by the Perlman Teaching Museum. Thirty top art works from the 19th and 20th centuries encompass evocative landscapes, portraits revealing the changing face of America, and expressive abstractions.

Mali in West Africa is home to many talented photographers and to a rich photographic culture. This exhibition explores photographic portraiture, considering both renowned studio photographers and work by generations of photographers who have come of age artistically since the Bamako Biennial, a recurring pan-African photography exhibition established in 1994.

A Complex Weave reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by contemporary women artists of varied backgrounds exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media.

Artist Chris Jordan composes huge color photographs based on statistical facts about American consumer culture.

Art meets astronomy in an exploration of the role of the visual in our pursuit of celestial knowledge.

Before there was a Weitz Center for Creativity, there was the Northfield Middle School — a building populated by generations of Northfield schoolchildren. Photographer and Carleton professor John Schott explores both physical space and memory through a striking series of photos taken in the school building before its renovation.

Prior to the opening of the Perlman Teaching Museum in the fall of 2011, the Carleton College Art Gallery was located in the Music and Drama Center.