Tag: 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,…

Priscilla Briggs has work from her “Fortune” series in the exhibition “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” currently on view at the National Gallery Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia, through February 2, 2020.

Betsy Byers and student Emily Dzieweczynski have a solo exhibition opening at the 410 project space in Mankato on April 26 from 7-9 p.m. The exhibition, 0°C -3C, encourages viewers to intimately experience the effects of climate change on the Rhone glacier through a mixed media installation that includes Virtual Reality animations, olfactory artwork, and sensory stimuli…

Betsy Ruth Byers will present a solo exhibition, “Deferred Grievance” at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. In Deferred Grievance, Byers’ mixed media works meditate on sensory experiences of climate change and seek to cultivate empathy between humans and the natural world. There will be an artist reception from 7 p.m.- 10 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, 2019. The exhibition will…

Priscilla Briggs and Betsy Byers have work in a group exhibition at ICOSA Collective in Austin, Texas from March 1-30, 2019. The exhibition, “Driving South in a Mostly Straight Line,” was juried by Andrea Mellard, Director of Public Programs and Community Engagement for The Contemporary Austin and founder of Crit Group.

Priscilla Briggs had works from her photographic series, “Fortune,” included in a major international exhibition, “Civilization: The Collective Life,” which will open this month at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea. The exhibit will subsequently travel to the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, the National Gallery of…

Don Myers was invited to give a gallery talk at the Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College Friday, January 5, 2018, as part of the opening of the exhibit Contemporary American Painting [1945]. The exhibit, co-organized by Myers with Laurel Bradley, then Director of the Perlman Teaching Museum, features works drawn from the Hillstrom and…

Jennifer Nevitt was featured in the Star Tribune for her current exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Kristen Lowe served on a jury panel for the Minnesota State Arts Board in the media arts category. Lowe served as a juror that selects recipients for a Minnesota state funded grant, The Artist Initiative Grant. The grant provides resources and time for artists to develop and advance their work in the public sphere.