Day: February 7, 2025
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Mellon Foundation Awards $500,000 for Multi-Year Art History Project, Object Lessons
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In December 2024, Gustavus Adolphus College was awarded a $500,000 grant by the Mellon Foundation to support Object Lessons: Repatriation, Provenance, and Access in Art History, a project led by Dr. Colleen Stockmann. Gustavus Adolphus College stewards over one thousand artworks and objects in the Hillstrom Museum of Art and College Archives that span five…
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Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer
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Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) presented a Zoom lecture “The Girl in the Green Sweater,” to an audience of 200 people around the world on February 1, 2025. The talk was sponsored by Knitting History Forum, a British organization, and told the story of a sweater worn by a young girl hiding from the Nazis in…