Entries tagged with ‘art and art history’

Faculty Spotlight: Kris Lowe

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

Betsy Byers (Art and Art History) was featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Art Hounds. In the episode, she discusses a current exhibit on display at Minneapolis’ Soo Visual Arts Center. As a bonus, one of the exhibitions featuring Byers’ work, “The Color Series, Part 4: Orange” (at Kolman & Pryor Gallery in Minneapolis) is also […]

Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

Betsy Byers (Art and Art History) was featured in the Mankato Free Press about an upcoming multimedia project focusing on climate change and glacier loss. Byers was also mentioned in the Star Tribune regarding a gallery show that is currently showing her work in Minneapolis.

Faculty Spotlight: Betsy Byers

Betsy Ruth Byers (Art and Art History) will receive a $10,000 grant through Kolman and Pryor Gallery’s 10th anniversary initiative called the Project Space. Byers is among a group of five artists to receive the grants, which will provide them with funds, technical support, and exhibition space needed to create important projects that will significantly […]

Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History)

Kristen Lowe screened her short documentary, Ray Chen, Only Son, at the Landmark Center as a presenter at the 2019 NCECA conference in Minneapolis. Lowe also received a grant from the Virginia A. Groot Foundation to direct and produce a documentary short film on work made by sculptor Andrew Hellmund and participated in a podcast, […]