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Art and Art HistoryThe Art and Art History Department at Macalester gives students a balanced coverage of both studio work and art history. Student majors concentrate in studio art or art history.

FacultyChristine Willcox, professor and chair, teaches painting, figure painting, color and murals. In 2016 Willcox had a solo exhibition at Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery titled “The Beginning (Again).” She is the recipient of numerous grants including a 2015 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for creating a series of paintings at Historic Fort Snelling, and a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Painting. Willcox had two solo exhibitions: “90° South” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ MAEP Gallery, and “Into the Woods” at the Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson, Wis. In 2018 she showed a new series of paintings titled “Home” in a solo exhibition at the Bloomington Arts Center.

Eric Carroll, assistant professor, teaches photography and 2-D design. He recently published his work from “Standard Stars” as a photogravure portfolio and has exhibited the work in Santa Fe, N.M., and Corvallis, Ore. this past year. Carroll has several upcoming exhibitions at venues including San Francisco International (SFO) and the New York Public Library. Carroll was recently awarded a 2017 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant to create his “Standard Stars” portfolio and was commissioned by Northern Lights.mn and the Super Bowl to create a public art installation titled “Empty Space” in February 2018.

Ruthann Godollei, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Art, teaches printmaking, senior seminar, and a course called Dissent. Her prints on social justice are held by the Denver Art Museum, the Polish National Museum of Art and KUMU, the Estonian Art Museum. She had a solo exhibit at Soo Visual Arts Center, 2016. Her work is in Global Print 2017, Alijó, Portugal and was in the 2015 Biennale Internationale d’Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Canada. She is the author of a book on D.I.Y. printing, How to Create Your Own…, and co-author, with Eric Dregni ’90, of Road Show: Art Cars & the Museum of the Streets.

Summer Hills-Bonczyk, visiting assistant professor, teaches ceramics. She received a 2013 Jerome Foundation Artist’s Travel & Study Grant. She co-directed the Gary Erickson memorial Empty Bowls 2017 fundraiser project to support Second Harvest Heartland food shelf.

Joanna Inglot, associate professor and Edith M. Kelso Professor of Art History, teaches modern and contemporary art. She received a 2015 IREX grant to research her book, Feminism on Trial: Gender, Art, and Politics in Post-Communist Poland, 1989–2014. Her paper on that topic was presented at the 2016 CIHA World Congress of Art History, in Beijing. She received a Fulbright Fellowship and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, International Exchanges Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Inglot is the author of The Figurative Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bodies, Environments, and Myths and WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota.

Stanton Sears, associate professor, teaches sculpture and 3-D design. His projects include a sculptural bridge over Highway 7 in St. Louis Park, Minn.; works at three stations on the Central Corridor light rail in St. Paul; the Microbial Sciences Building at the University of Wisconsin–Madison; the platform for the Duarte Station on the Gold Line light rail in Los Angeles; mosaic floors at Minneapolis–St. Paul Airport; and the Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the World War II Memorial at the Minnesota State Capitol. He and collaborative partner Andrea Myklebust ’95 have more than 40 commissioned public artworks.

Kari Shepherdson-Scott, assistant professor, teaches Introduction to Visual Culture and Asian Art History. A recipient of Fulbright grants, her article “Race behind the Walls: Contact and Containment in Japanese Images of Urban Manchuria” is in the anthology The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. “Toward an ‘Unburnable City’: Reimagining the Urban Landscape in 1930s Japanese Media” appears in the Journal of Urban History.

Megan Vossler, assistant professor, teaches drawing. She received a 2015 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant for a project on landscape in Dante’s Inferno, exhibited at Augsburg University, Minneapolis. In 2017, she had a solo exhibit, Fallout, at Grand View University, Des Moines, Iowa. She is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant and a McKnight Artist Fellowship.

Serdar Yalçin, assistant professor, teaches Art of the West I and Politics & Ideology in Greco-Roman Art. He specializes in the art and archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East. He published “Men, Women, Eunuchs, Etc.: Visualities of Gendered Identities in Kassite Babylonian Seals (ca. 1470–1155 B.C.)” in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Art and Art History

ResourcesArt History enjoys new classrooms and a new digital visual resources library in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. Studio Art classes have state-of-the-art facilities in the new Joan Adams Mondale Hall of Studio Art. The Law Warschaw Gallery hosts frequent professional art exhibits as well as the annual student show and senior capstone exhibit.

Special Opportunities & AwardsCrystal Yam ’17 (New York) received the first Donovan Art History Academic Travel Award to research work by the Dada collagist Hannah Höch in Berlin.

Dex Nguyen ’17 (Hanoi, Vietnam) worked with Professor Carroll on a summer 2016 student/faculty collaboration grant creating an original animation.

Simon Koda ’16 (Cedar, Mich.), Egzon Sadiku ’16 (Peja, Republic of Kosovo), and Ariana Zaia ’16 (Austin, Texas) worked with the late Professor Gary Erickson on a grant researching digital techniques for printing on clay.

Maja Bendtsen ’17 (Aarhus, Denmark), Simon Koda ’16 (Cedar, Mich.), Egzon Sadiku ’16 (Peja, Republic of Kosovo), and Avielle Suria ’15 (Bayamón, Puerto Rico) received Joan Adams Mondale Scholarships for ceramics.

ArchitectureIn a cooperative architecture program, students can spend three years at Macalester and the fourth at Washington University’s School of Architecture to earn dual degrees in liberal arts and architecture.

InternshipsSebastian Eising ’19 (Minneapolis), interned at the Walker Art Center

Sophia Hill ’18 (Arden Hills, Minn.), interned at the Walker Art Center

Julia Eshaghpour ’17 (New York) interned as an archivist at Midway Contemporary Gallery in Minneapolis.

Kevin Hollidge ’17 (Eagan, Minn.) interned at Midway Contemporary Gallery in Minneapolis.

Duc Tai Nguyen ’17 (Hanoi, Vietnam) interned at Free Arts Minnesota teaching elementary school students.

Madison Reid ’17 (Grand Rapids, Minn.) and Will Matsuda’15 (Portland, Ore.) interned with renowned photographer Alec Soth.

Honors ProjectsSophia Hill ’18 (Arden Hills, Minn.), “How to be the Perfect Asian Wife! ”

Manya Jacobson ’18 (Manitou Springs, Colo.), “Rattled”

Rebekka Ord ’18 (Juneau, Alaska), “Bye Bye Biodiversity: Insects, Art and Climate Change”

After MacalesterDylan Jekels ’18 (Chicago) is teaching English through the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program.

Isabel Le ’18 (Staten Island, N.Y.) works with pottery at Grey Fox Pottery.

Hao Guo ’16 (San Francisco) is attending the graduate journalism program at the University of California–Berkeley.

Muyuan He ’16 (Shenzhen, China) is in the graduate program at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.

Parker Field ’15 (Bloomington, Minn.) is a catalogue raisonné intern at the Arshile Gorky Foundation in Chaska, Minn.

William Matsuda ’15 (Portland, Ore.) is a social media associate at the Aperture Foundation for photography in New York City.

Hannah Campbell ’14 (Indianapolis, Ind.) completed her MFA in furniture design at Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University.

Michelle Lee ’14 (Boca Raton, Fla.) received a master’s in art history at Purdue University.

Carina Lei ’14 (Lake Oswego, Ore.) is pursuing a master’s degree in entertainment management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Samantha Leopold-Sullivan ’14 (Tucson, Ariz.) was accepted to the sculpture MFA program at Alfred University. She displayed work in “A Conspiracy of Strange Girls” at CO exhibitions, Minneapolis.

Drew Mintz ’14 (Albuquerque, N.M.) is co-owner and creative director at the design firm Nerland Co. in Minneapolis.

Maya Aguayo Schmidt-Feng ’14 (Berkeley, Calif.) is managing editor at Tomorrow Magazine in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Updated August 2018

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