{"id":164,"date":"2023-10-06T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-art\/news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:46:28","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Department News & Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lela Pierce, Assistant Professor of Art in Sculpture, had work in a group show, “In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See” at Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC, Sept. 2025.\u00a0She wa in another group exhibit, Los Pasos Prohibidos at NE Sculpture Factory Gallery, Mpls. Sept. 2025. Selections from The Unknown Thing that Frees You<\/em> were on display in the Law Warschaw Gallery, Summer, 2025. 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<\/a> with the artist.

Dr. Serdar Yalcin, Associate Professor of Art History, received a premier\u00a0Getty Residential Scholar Grant<\/a>\u00a0to support research at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles, Fall 2024.\u00a0He led an archaeological dig at the Tarsus-G\u00f6zl\u00fckule Excavation Projects in Turkey, Summer 2025.

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, had work published in The Siren News, Vol. 3, an NYC satiric political magazine Sept. 2025. She has 2 works in the SGCI Juried Members Exhibit, TX, Feb. 2026. She is featured in Deacon Warner’s new documentary, Every Day is a Parade, premiered at the 2025 MSP Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macalester College professors Don Celender, Jerry Rudquist and Ruthann Godollei were included in the book, An American Outpost: The Minnesota Art Scene 1840-1989 by Katherine Goertz, published by Afton Historical Society Press 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer Hills-Bonczyk, Assistant Professor (NTT) in Ceramics, is the recipient of a 2025 Arts Experiences grant <\/a>from the Minnesota State Arts Board. She will present the Performance Art Intensive<\/em>, a 7-day immersive retreat culminating in a public performance. A cast and crew of elders and LGBTQ+ young adults will cocreate a performance with 4,000 pounds of unfired clay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 2023 exhibit Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope<\/em><\/a>. See an interview<\/a> with Prof. Inglot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Basia \u015aliwi\u0144ska\u00a0will give a public lecture Tuesday, Feb. 17,\u00a05:30\u20137:00 pm in\u00a0Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Arts Commons 102–“Arts Activism for Reproductive Healthcare.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery presents a solo exhibit by Faye Heavyshield, Spring, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Art & Art History Department hosted a winter Aurora Borealis themed party, Dec. 4, 2025, 4:30-6pm, in the Sculpture Studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery presented Electrospiritology, a solo exhibit by Fernando Orellana, 8\/22-10\/31, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Two Stars (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Dakota) a public artist with work at the WAC Sculpture Garden, gave a talk for 3D Design and other students and faculty, Oct. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Barbarena gave a talk for the Printmaking II class and they helped print his posters in support of immigrant communities, Nov. 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Bryan Wilson (PhD, UC Berkeley, 2004) gave a public lecture on her groundbreaking 2024\u201325 exhibition Queer Histories<\/em> at the Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo, in the JBD Lecture Hall of the Campus Center,  Wednesday, October 1 2025. Sponsored by the Art History Lecture series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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