Department News & Events

News

Dr. Serdar Yalcin, Associate Professor of Art History, received the premier Getty Residential Scholar Grant to support research at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, 2024-’25. 

Professor Megan Vossler, Dep’t. Chair, organized a 4th incarnation of Ekphrastic Drawing at SooVAC in Mpls, Summer 2024. Several Macalester faculty members, art alumni and current students participated in the collaborative multi-panel storytelling drawing experiment, later interpreted by writers.

Ruthann Godollei, Wallace Professor of Art, was an artist in residence at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA , May 2024. She has a solo exhibit at SooVAC gallery, Mpls., titled Fast & Loose, Sept. 20-Oct. 29, 2024.

Lela Pierce, Assistant Professor of Art in Sculpture, has a solo exhibit at SooVAC gallery, Mpls., The Unknown Thing that Frees You, Sept. 20-Oct. 29, 2024 and a solo exhibit at Cyrus M. Running Galley of Concordia College, Moorhead, MN Oct. 8-Nov. 17, 2024. She received a prestigious Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, which supports early-career Minnesota and New York City-based artists who generate new work that takes creative risks in expanding, questioning, experimenting with, or reimagining conventional artistic forms. See an interview with the artist.

Dr. Joanna Inglot, Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor of Art History, has had her research on artist Magdelena Abakanowic heralded by the Tate Modern as the foundation of their exhibit Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope (November 17, 2022–May 21, 2023). See an interview with Prof. Inglot.

Events

The Koch Gallery, inside the Joan Mondale Hall of Studio Art, is hosting an interactive drawing event in conjunction with the International Roundtable. The IRT theme is Slowing Down, Seeking Roots, Making Sanctuary: Belonging Beyond the Anthropocene. Alumnus and current faculty member Nicole Simpkins designed this year’s poster. Participatory drawing is free and open to all this week. Closing party Oct. 11, 12:45 -2:15pm.

In conjunction with MICKEY SMITH: Morphologies, at Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery, an afternoon symposium with Dr. Shannon Mattern, currently Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies and the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania was held prior to the opening reception on Sept. 6, 2024. The exhibit runs Aug. 26- Dec. 15, 2024.