October 2012

When: January 22 - February 23, 2013

Where: T.R. Anderson Gallery, Katherine E. Nash Gallery

Free and open to the public

Public Reception
January 24 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Regis Center for Art

Anderson Gallery hours and directions
Nash Gallery hours and directions

The University Libraries join with the Katherine E. Nash Gallery on an exhibition that surveys artists, artworks, and organizations that originated, shaped, and continue to influence the development of the 1970s feminist art movements in the United States. In the 1970s women artists made history; they incorporated new content, methods, and media into the discourse of art and established innovative organizations to support and disseminate the work of women artists. Funded by the Department of Art and the University Libraries with support from the College of Liberal Arts Freshman Research and Creative Awards Program.

Image
Georgiana Kettler
Spirit House, 1981
Acrylic on shaped canvas with wood and asphalt shingles 60" x 33" x 3"
From the collection of Judy Schwartau

Josephine Lutz Rollins Fellowship Exhibition
January 22 - February 23, 2013
Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art

Josephine Lutz Rollins was one of the first women to join the faculty in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota and her University career spanned nearly 40 years -- from 1927 to 1965. Established by the Lutz Rollins family in 1990 to honor the important legacy of her work, the Josephine Lutz Rollins Fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding female painter in the graduate program. This exhibition includes approximately 20 artworks by Josephine Lutz Rollins and one or more artworks by the Fellowship artists.

Related Events

Raising the Roof: Feminist Art 1970 - 2013
Public Lecture by the artist Harmony Hammond
January 24 at 5 p.m.
Regis Center for Art

Harmony Hammond will show examples of her work and discuss coming of age as an artist in Minneapolis, her participation in New York City feminist art movements of the 70s and 80s, later involvement with feminist art projects in Minnesota, and the state of feminist art today!

The House We Are Building
Public Panel on the founding of WARM and the of future feminist art networks
January 31 at 7 p.m.
Regis Center for Art

WARM (Women's Art Resources of Minnesota) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2013. This public panel will explore the history and future of the feminist art movement in Minnesota. Panelists include: Elizabeth Erickson, a founder of WARM and the Women's Art Institute; Carole Fisher, a founder of WARM and the Women's Studio Program at St. Catherine University; Joanna Inglot, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Macalester College; Joyce Lyon, a founder of WARM and co-curator of The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now; Bethany Whitehead, President, WARM.

Researching Feminist Art: Then and Now
February 7 at 4 p.m.
Wilson Library, Fourth Floor

Three University of Minnesota students who received the College of Liberal Arts Freshman Research and Creative Awards Program grant in 2012 conducted research for the exhibition on the artists who founded the feminist art organizations of the 1970s. Madison Sternig, Candace Thooft and Austin Voigt worked with Christina Michelon, M.A. student in the Department of Art History. The students will discuss their experiences conducting curatorial research.

!Women Art Revolution
February 11 at 5 p.m.
Wilson Library, Fourth Floor

!Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.) is a documentary film by Lynn Hershman Leeson that combines interviews, artwork and rarely seen archival film and video footage, collected over the past 40 years, which details the evolution of the feminist art movement in the United States from 1968 to the present. The film chronicles major developments in women's art, such as the opening of the A.I.R. Gallery in New York and the Los Angeles Woman's Building, the Guerrilla Girls, and the Women's Action Coalition.

Exhibition Locations and Hours

Katherine E. Nash Gallery
Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota
405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, 612/624-7530
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday
Parking and directions

T.R. Anderson Gallery
Wilson Library, Fourth Floor, University of Minnesota
309 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, 612/624-3321
Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
Parking and directions

Accessibility
The Katherine E. Nash Gallery and the Wilson Library are wheelchair-accessible.

Sponsorship
The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now was organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery and is co-sponsored by the Department of Art, the Department of Art History, the Department of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, the University Libraries, and the Women's Center with support from the College of Liberal Arts Freshman Research and Creative Awards Program and the Engaged Department Grant Program of the Office for Public Engagement. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Curatorial Team
This exhibition in the Katherine E. Nash Gallery was co-curated by Joyce Lyon, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting, and Howard Oransky, Director of the Nash Gallery. The exhibition in the T.R. Anderson Gallery was co-curated by Deborah Boudewyns, Arts, Architecture and Landscape Architecture Librarian, and Christina Michelon, M.A. student in the Department of Art History.

To receive this information in alternative formats or for disability accommodations, please contact Deborah Boudewyns at ultan004@umn.edu.

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
© 2012 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota.

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What: Two presentations

1. "Sailing West to Reach China: A Big Idea with Unforeseen Results,'" presented by the James Ford Bell Library.

2. "50 Years of the Guthrie Theater," presented by the Performing Arts Archives.

When: Friday, May 3, Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Parking information

"What's the Big Idea, First Fridays," is a series of intellectually stimulating talks at Elmer L. Andersen Library. Each month's presentation is based on materials in the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections.

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What: Two presentations

1. "Big Ideas about Big Brains: The Supercomputer in Popular Imagination,'" presented by the Charles Babbage Institute.

2. "The New Deal and the Great Society: Federal Social Programs in the 20th Century," presented by the Social Welfare History Archives.

When: Friday, April 5, Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Parking information

"What's the Big Idea, First Fridays," is a series of intellectually stimulating talks at Elmer L. Andersen Library. Each month's presentation is based on materials in the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections.

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The "Critical Conversations About Diversity and Justice" series starts in September 2012 and runs through April 2013. Every conversation in the series will take place on a Friday, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. in the Givens Conference Room (120 Elmer Andersen Library, on the U of M's West Bank Campus).

These conversations are open to all students, staff, faculty, and community members. Registration is not required. To request a disability-related accommodation, please contact Ralph Blanco at rblanco@umn.edu or 612-625-8680. Please allow two weeks advance notice.

The Critical Conversations series is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Office for Equity and Diversity and co-sponsored by the University Libraries.

View the series schedule

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When: Jan. 15 through March 15, 2013

Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library
Hours and Location

Parking: z.umn.edu/elapark

Before movies and television, American audiences filled theatres and vaudeville stages to escape the monotony of everyday life. This exhibit from the Performing Arts Archives explores the exotic worlds created by the scenic artists for both public theatres and private fraternal spaces of the Freemasons.

Guest curated by Professor Lance Brockman.

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What: "Pulp Writers and Weird Stories," presented by Andersen Research Scholar Britt Aamodt.

When: Friday, March 1, Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Parking information

"What's the Big Idea, First Fridays," is a series of intellectually stimulating talks at Elmer L. Andersen Library. Each month's presentation is based on materials in the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections.

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What: To Her Dear and Loving Husband: Reading the Love Letters of Mistress Bradstreet, featuring Edward Griffin

When: Feb. 12, 2013, 4:30 p.m. light refreshments, 5 p.m. program

Where: Upson Room, Walter Library

Free and open to the public.

Reservations by Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at z.umn.edu/griffin or 612-624-9339.

Parking information

Could a Puritan woman express desire, passion, and love? Sixty years ago, when young John Berryman encountered Anne Dudley Bradstreet's verse love letters to her husband, Simon, he asked that question and was startled at his answer. No: fascinated. No: infatuated. Something about Bradstreet's love poetry still startles, fascinates, and infatuates readers today. In this reading by Professor Emeritus Edward Griffin, Department of English, Anne Bradstreet will upstage John Berryman and his extreme response to her poems.

Edward M. Griffin is a professor emeritus of the Department of English and former chairperson of the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He retired in 2010 after serving forty-four years as a teacher, scholar, and administrator. A member of the University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers, he has received the all-University award for distinguished graduate and professional teaching; the College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teacher award; and the English Department's Ruth Christy award for undergraduate teaching of English. Griffin has written widely on American history and on twentieth-century American literature with an emphasis on the colonial period.

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What: Ninth Annual NOMMO African American Author Series -
Featuring E. Ethelbert Miller, literary activist

When: Feb. 6, 2013, 7 p.m.

Where: Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Center

Cost: $15*; purchase at z.umn.edu/libtix or call 612-624-2345.

Parking information

Poet, professor, and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller will read from his work and, with host and moderator Alexs Pate, will engage in spirited dialogue about the state of the art of African American literature.

* University of Minnesota students and members of the Givens Foundation and the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries (FOL) are eligible to receive up to two complimentary tickets for this event. U Card or FOL membership number must be provided when tickets are ordered. Complimentary tickets are available by phone at 612-624-2345 or in person only.

Box office hours and locations for the U of MN Tickets and Events Office can be found here.

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What: Two presentations

1. "Leroy S. Buffington and his 'Cloudscraper,'" presented by the Northwest Architectural Archives.

2. "Big Ideas in Little Packages: Little Big Books and Other Small Treasures," presented by the Children's Literature Research Collection.

When: Friday, Feb. 1, Noon to 1 p.m.

Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 21st Ave. S.

Feel free to bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Parking information

"What's the Big Idea, First Fridays," is a series of intellectually stimulating talks at Elmer L. Andersen Library. Each month's presentation is based on materials in the University of Minnesota Libraries' Archives and Special Collections.

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What: Exhibit Reception - Creating the World for the Stage: 1893-1929

An Exhibit of Scenic Sketches

Join us for an exhibit reception and program in honor of Professor Lance Brockman, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance.

When: Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, 5 p.m.; program at 5:30 p.m.

Where: Elmer L. Andersen Library

Parking: z.umn.edu/elapark

Reservations by Tuesday, January 22 at z.umn.edu/scenic or 612-624-9339.

Please join us for an exhibit reception and program in honor of Professor Lance Brockman, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. The program will showcase the development of scenic design in the Twin Cities and Upper Midwest and will include items from Brockman's collection.

Before movies and television, American audiences filled theatres and vaudeville stages to escape the monotony of everyday life. This exhibit from the Performing Arts Archives explores the exotic worlds created by the scenic artists for both public theatres and private fraternal spaces of the Freemasons. Guest curated by Professor Lance Brockman.

Exhibit: January 15 - March 15, 2013, Elmer L. Andersen Library Gallery

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What: Feast of Words, featuring Ted Farmer

When: Jan.24, 2013, 5 p.m. social hour, 6 p.m. program

Where: Campus Club

Cost: $25.99 ($12.95 for students); reservations required at 612-626-7788

The annual Feast of Words dinner will feature Ted Farmer, Emeritus Professor of History and Global Studies. Farmer will speak on "Chinese Whispers: When Words are Dangerous." The presentation will address the ways new electronic media affect the cat-and-mouse game long played by Chinese intellectuals, who continue to develop tactics for expressing doubt, criticism, satire, and advocacy despite their country's constraints on free expression.

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