Department Highlights:
Exhibition Opening March 9, 2007:
Urban, Rural, & Distant Spaces
An opening reception for the exhibition
Urban, Rural, & Distant Spaces: Painters
who work in the landscape, curated by
Hamline Professor Andrew Wykes, will be
held Friday, March 9th at 6:00 in the Drew
Fine Arts Galleries. The exhibition features
the landscape paintings of Stanley Lewis,
Marjorie Portnow, and Andrew Wykes. For more information on the
opening, the keynote address to be given by Stanley Lewis, and a
preview of the exhibition, please visit our exhibition preview.
Hamline Hosts 5th Annual ACTC Art History
Faculty Symposium
The Symposium will be held March 3, 2007 in Drew Science 118
from 10 a.m. to noon. For more information and a list of presenters
and their topics, please click here.
Catalogue for Icons of Perfection
Now Available
College of Liberal Arts students enrolled in
Visiting Professor Frank Herreman's museum
studies seminar contributed to the recent
publication of Icons of Perfection, a comprehensive
look at figurative sculptural traditions from across
sub-Saharan Africa. To find out more, and for
ordering information, please click here.
Private opening of Icons of Perfection December 1, 2005
Icons of Perfection opened in the Hamline Galleries
on December 1. The exhibition runs through February
11, 2006. The gallery is open Monday through Friday
from 10:00 to 4:00 and on Saturdays from 1:00 to 5:00.
Opening Slideshow
This exhibition has now closed.
Icons of Perfection to open at the Hamline Galleries in December
Visiting Professor Frank Herreman, noted Africanist and former
Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Publications at the Museum
for African Art in New York City, is currently presenting an
introductory course on African art and museum studies to a
small group of Hamline students. With his students, Professor
Herreman is curating Icons of Perfection: Figurative Sculpture from
Africa, set to open in the Hamline Galleries in December. The exhibition features a selection of objects from both private and
public collections, including The Minneapolis Institue of Arts and
Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis. The Dogon door shown at left is on loan from Curtis
Galleries; for more information on Icons of Perfection and to view a preview of
selected works from the exhibition, please view our Exhibition Preview.
Professor Herreman at The Minneapolis Institute of Artste of Arts
Visiting Professor Frank Herreman presented a public lecture on masks of the Congo Basin on October 2nd at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Titled "Face of the Spirits," the lecture was based on an exhibition Professor Herreman curated which was displayed at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC, in 2001.
View a Slideshow of the lecture.
Africa: A Legacy in Memory
To help celebrate Hamline University's 150th
anniversary in 2004 a unique festival was held.
The festival, Africa: A Legacy in Memory, explored
Africa’s artistic and cultural heritage and honored
the contributions of the continent of Africa in the
humanities and the arts.
The centerpiece of the festival was a special exhibition, Material
Differences, organized and previously exhibited at the Museum for
African Art in New York.
For more information about the festival, events, and exhibition, and to
view various slideshows, please visit the festival's web site:
www.hamline.edu/150/africa
Art & Architecture in France
Assistant Professor of Art History, Aida Audeh, led one of Hamline
University's short term courses abroad in France in the summer of 2004:
La Vie en Rose: Art & Architecture in France; Gothic - 20th century
Department Graduates
Art Museum Internships Made Possible
in New York City
Genevieve Rust Ehlers Endowed Fund
Alisa McCusker ('02), Summer 2001
Holly Johnson ('02), Fall 2002
Art History Research Project to Nepal and Tibet
Karl Aaron Stumpf Travel Award in Art and Art
History, Summer 2002
Heather Cattnach ('03)
View a slide show of photographs.
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