Special Opportunities

• Three students recently completed the Art Department’s postgraduate apprenticeship program: Gretchen Keiling ’08, Lela Pierce ’08, and Anna Crabtree ’10.
• Drew Mintz and Anna Van Voorhis interned at Free Arts MN, a nonprint organization bringing the arts to neglected and abused children.
• Students hand printed postcards highlighting St. Paul neighborhoods disrupted by the Light Rail project, supported by a grant from the Irrigate initiative.
• Print students created a portfolio for exhibit at the Tokyo Fine Arts University, Fall 2008. A copy is on view at the Macalester Humanities Resource Center.
• Arella Vargas ’11 assisted Mexican artist Artemio Rodriguez in printing his 8 'high woodblock print for display in Macalester Gallery as part of the Midamerican Print Council Conference New World/Old World 2010.
• Pei-Hsuan Wang ’10 traveled to Jingdezhen, China, with ceramics professor Gary Erickson to see porcelain production in the city where it was invented. They stayed at Sanbao Ceramics Art Institute and visited universities, museums, and artists’ villages, Summer 2009.

Facilities

The art building contains a sculpture studio with bronze foundry; printmaking studio for lithography, etching, relief, screenprint, photo, and computer processes; painting studio; drawing studio: ceramics area with electric, gas, and Raku kilns: woodworking shop and welding facilities.

Other features: a seminar room, a digital visual resources library, a lecture hall with digital projector linked to the Internet and a digital photography/design computer lab in the Lampert Building. Construction is underway for a new Gallery and Art History classrooms as part of the Fine Arts facility renovations.

Tour the building with a tour guide