Senior and Undergraduate Art Show, Part 2

Marie Fidler, Senior Art Major, Rooster.

Tran Nguyen's Value Study in Charcoal, Undergraduate Exhibit Honorable Mention

Annual Group Undergraduate Exhibit and Mid-Year Senior Exhibit

The current exhibit in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries is Clarity, the All Campus Student Art Exhibition and the senior capstone exhibit for two seniors in Art and Design, Nikki Farmer and Marie Fidler.

Nikki Farmer's work consists of mixed media sculpture, while Marie Fidler, whose work will be featured in a future post, focuses on watercolor paintings.

 Nikki Jane Farmer, Senior Studio Art Major, Grasp the Lotus, mixed media.

The awards in the undergraduate exhibit are below. Also receiving an honorable mention was Tran Nguyen's Value Study in Charcoal, which will be featured in a future post. The exhibit runs through December 13th, 2012.

First Place, Diana Hernandez, English with Writing Emphasis major, Still Life in Ink, Ink Drawing.

Second Place, Molly Duggan, Studio Art major, The Snake Charmer, oil on canvas.

Third Place, Abby Osborne, Studio Art major, Golden Braid, linoleum print.

Honorable Mention, Brianna Bloomquist, The Forsaken Call, ceramic.

Faculty Biennial

In the spring semester of the 2011/2012 academic year, the Saint Mary's University faculty biennial was held in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries. The exhibit, titled Verisimilitude, featured work by six members of the Saint Mary's art and design faculty.

Art and Design faculty at the opening

A digital print by Brother Roderick Robertson

Ceramic installation by Charlie Campbell

Drawing by John Whelan

Ceramic and mixed media piece by Lisa Truax

Oil painting by Preston Lawing

Mixed media by Robert McColl

Digital photography by Tony Calabrese

Saint Mary's Ceramics Students Participate in 'Empty Bowls for the Hungry'

In the spring semester of the 2011/2012 academic year, two Saint Mary's Students, Mary Karnick and Jim Tandberg, joined Assistant Professor Lisa Truax in working with Winona State ceramic students and faculty along with local artists in creating dozens of bowls for the annual WSU event "Empty Bowls for the Hungry". The event benefits the Winona Volunteer Services Food Shelf. The bowls were sold at a lunch time event, and will be held again in the spring of 2013.

Many bowls were created to be sold for charity by SMUMN and WSU students and faculty as well as local artists.

Saint Mary's Students Mary Karnick and Jim Tandberg trim bowls at the event.

Demonstration of Japanese Style Printmaking

During the last exhibit at the Lillian Davis Hogan Gallery in the Toner Student Center at Saint Mary's University, Associate Professor of Art Preston Lawing demonstrated traditional Japanese printmaking techniques.


The exhibit featured prints by numerous artists including Lawing, and was in support of relief efforts after the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan.

Current and Upcoming Gallery Exhibits

Currently on exhibit in the Lillian Davis Hogan Gallery in the Toner Student Center is a show featuring work by painter Andrew Rieder, entitled "These Things Happen".


Rieder's colorful and powerful paintings, including this work, "It’s All Fun & Games Until It’s At Your Expense", will be on view until November 13, 2011. The gallery is open daily from 9:00 am until 8:00 pm, and is free and open to the public.

The current and upcoming show schedule for the gallery is as follows.

These Things Happen
Paintings by Andrew Rieder
October 13 - November 13, 2011

All Campus Student Art Exhibition and Senior Show
Senior Show featuring the work of Brianna Nelson, Sarah Kraft, Danielle Cossetta, and Charlie Williams.
November 19 - December 14, 2011
Opening Reception November 19, 4:30 - 6:00 pm

Faculty Show, title TBA
January 19 - February, 2012 (closing date TBA)
Opening Reception January 19th, 4:30 - 6:00 pm

Senior Art Exhibition #1 (title TBA)
March 24 - April 15, 2012
Opening Reception March 24th, 4:30-6:00 pm

Senior Art Exhibition #2 (title TBA)
April 21 - May 12, 2012
Opening Reception April 21, 4:30 - 6:00 pm

Please join us as we feature a range of work from students, faculty, and artists from the greater region.

Senior Shows Spring 2011

The two senior shows held in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries this spring were a great success! Two groups of seniors displayed their work, the culmination of 4 years of hard work.


Work displayed included photography, design, painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and more.

Congratulations once again to our recent art and design graduates, along with the rest of the newly minted Saint Mary's University alumni!