Hamline University Department of Studio Arts and Art History

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

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

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. Thank you for visiting. New information is added to our web site on a regular basis. Please stop by again.