{"id":16764,"date":"2021-07-22T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=16764"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:48:34","slug":"new-minn-art-exhibition-includes-work-by-four-macalester-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/new-minn-art-exhibition-includes-work-by-four-macalester-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"New Minn. Art Exhibition Includes Work By Four Macalester Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Paul, Minn<\/b>. \u2014 When the Minnesota Museum of American Art\u2019s new exhibition <\/span>Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial<\/span><\/i><\/a> opens on July 24, it will include work produced by Macalester professors Ruthann Godollei, Megan Vossler, Tia-Simone Gardner, and John Kim. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the museum\u2019s press release, the exhibit is a look into some of the imaginative and dedicated ways that artists and culture bearers from across the state are engaging with water. The exhibition, which features work from more than 50 Minnesota artists, is informed by the museum\u2019s proximity to the Mississippi River — the third largest river in the world, which goes by many names. The work in <\/span>Many Waters <\/span><\/i>fosters conversation, awareness, a sense of care, as well as new ways of thinking about water and water stories through many different lenses, including ecological, social, political, historical, spiritual, and creative.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallace Professor of Art Godollei\u2019s piece for the exhibit is titled \u201cGo Ask Alice (for Flint).\u201d It consists of an etched glass apothecary jar, a letterpress printed card inscribed \u201cDrink Me,\u201d and adulterated \u201cwater.\u201d The jar reads: \u201cFlint H20.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe piece refers to <\/span>Alice in Wonderland<\/span><\/i> and the surreal situation of letting corporations decide environmental policy,\u201d said Prof. Godollei. \u201cThe City of Flint, Michigan, hit by auto industry closures, switched the water supply to the Flint River, to save money. The acidic water leached lead from the pipes and poisoned people, especially children. Minnesota hosts a 300-mile Canadian oil pipeline with a record of ruptures. Now they’re extending it across indigenous lands to Lake Superior, drilling under the Mississippi River headwaters. St. Paul gets its drinking water from that river. I want people to think about where their water comes from and why we continue to allow it to be endangered this way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her piece, along with the others produced by Professors Vossler, Gardner, and Kim, will be exhibited in the museum\u2019s windows along Robert and 4th Streets, at its skyway entrance, and at NewStudio Gallery until Oct. 2, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about Macalester at macalester.edu<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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