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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…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Nicolas Darcourt

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    Nicolas Darcourt (Art and Art History) has artwork included in the River 2 River National Juried Exhibition as part of the semi-annual Iowa Clay Conference. The exhibited artwork is a ceramic sculpture made from red stoneware press molds and hand-built parts, titled “Accumulated Perspectives”. The exhibition runs through October 26, 2024, at the Gilded Pear…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

    Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

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    Betsy Byers (Art and Art History) will be participating in the third annual Saint Peter Art Stroll. She will have her home studio open and will be selling original acrylic and watercolor paintings and prints along with alumni Olivia Norquist ’23, whose watercolors will be available for purchase. The Art Stroll is an opportunity to…

  • Faculty Task Force, 2023-24 Faculty Service Award Winners

    Faculty Task Force, 2023-24 Faculty Service Award Winners

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    Faculty Task Force Members (Chair Kate Knutson, Political Science; Betsy Byers, Art and Art History; Yurie Hong, Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies; Maddalena Marinari, History; Dave Stamps, Music; Dwight Stoll, Chemistry; and Valerie Walker, Education) were selected as the 2023-24 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kris Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a chapter dedicated to her artwork in the book, The Essential Dear Dara, Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places, published this year by the Minnesota Historical Society. The Chapter is entitled “Primeval Connection.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) attended and presented her research on neuroaesthetics at the Spatial Oddity conference held at the Research Center for Communication and Culture at Catolica University in Lisboa, Portugal, in January 2024.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Nicolas Darcourt

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    Nicolas Darcourt (Art and Art History) has a solo exhibition at the Hillstrom Museum of Art entitled, “Improvised Structures: Recent Sculptural Works by Nicolas Darcourt.” The exhibition runs from Monday, February 13 through Sunday, April 23, 2023. All are welcome to attend the opening reception on February 13 from 7:00–9:00 p.m., including an artist talk…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Colleen Stockmann

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    Colleen Stockmann (Art and Art History) was in residence at the Huntington Library, Museum, and Botanical Gardens (San Marino, California) for the month of January 2022 completing a fellowship and conducting research for a forthcoming article on landscape and tenement housing at the turn of the 20th century. In May 2022, Stockmann will present that…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) was the subject of a profile in the December issue of Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine. Written by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, the feature story focuses on Lowe’s personal journey and context about challenges facing women artists. The piece also features her current exhibit that is on display in the Hillstrom Museum…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a new exhibition, Ballad of the Red Fox, that will be open September 16-October 23, 2021, at Form + Content Gallery in Minneapolis.