Undergraduate Art Show!

We had lots of students bring their drawings, paintings, and photos into the gallery for submission to this year's Undergraduate Student Art Show.

Thank You to all of the undergraduate students that brought their work to the Lillian Davis Hogan Gallery Monday and Tuesday.

Each student could have submitted up to three (3) works, any media. Artwork must have been completed as a college student (in or out of class).

Opening reception for the exhibit is Thursday, November 21st, 4:30 - 6pm.

Prizes for First, Second, and Third place winners will be announced at the opening.

Hope to see you there!

MOSAIC, SMU’s Literary & Arts Journal, needs a cover design!

If you have any visual art pieces that would make a striking cover, please send them to mosaic@smumn.edu with “Cover Design” as the subject. All cover designs submitted should relate in some way to MOSAIC, the title of journal. If you would like to see examples of past winners, older copies of MOSAIC are available for perusal in the English Dept Office, St. Mary's Room 231

Dog Days in Design class

The day after Halloween is always a hard day in class. Too much sugar. Out late walking the dark streets at night. Trying to get mascara off hard to reach places.

Solution: Easton the Dog.

Easton paid a visit to Rob McColl's morning Foundations I class to inspire, encourage, and generally slobber on the students.

Good dog. Sit. Cut. Paste.

Audio Guide For Excessibility

Visitors to the Lillian Davis Hogan galleries can now get a personal tour of the exhibit on display by Todd VonBastiaans and Bryan McCarthy, curators and artists of the exhibit.

Point your mobile device toward the QR code to access the audio file recorded during their recent visit for the opening reception.

Follow the small signs posted near the work in the gallery while they talk about their collection.

‘Excessibility’ Opening a Star-Studded Success

Las Vegas artist and 1994 Saint Mary’s alumnus Todd VonBastiaans — along with friend and colleague Bryan McCarthy — will curate the next Saint Mary’s University exhibit, “Excessibility.”

The show, which depicts luxury and celebrity accessibility is subtitled, “Access 2 Excess” and features works from 1939 to 2013, including Banksy, Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt and Andy Warhol. VonBastiaans and McCarthy will also display their new pancake pillows.

The exhibit opened two weeks ago will run Oct. 10 through Nov. 10 in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, located in the Toner Student Center.

There are many unique and eye catching pieces in this exhibit and everyone is welcome to come enjoy "Excessibility."

 Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, and the show is free and open to the public.

Alumnus Returns to SMU for exhibit titled 'Excessibility'

Las Vegas artist and 1994 Saint Mary’s alumnus Todd VonBastiaans — along with friend and colleague Bryan McCarthy — will curate the next Saint Mary’s University exhibit, “Excessibility.”

The show, which depicts luxury and celebrity accessibility is subtitled, “Access 2 Excess” and features works from 1939 to 2013, including Banksy, Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt and Andy Warhol. VonBastiaans and McCarthy will also display their new pancake pillows.

“Excessibility” will run Oct. 10 through Nov. 10 in the Lillian Davis Hogan Galleries, located in the Toner Student Center.

A reception for the show will be held 4:30 to 6 on Thursday, Oct. 10. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, and the show is free and open to the public.

These pancake pillows are just some of the unusual pieces to be featured in "Excessibility."

Professor Preston Lawing to Exhibit at ArHaus in Decorah, Iowa

Preston Lawing, Associate Professor of Art and Design, likes the color changes and patina that comes with age. His current exhibition at the ArtHaus Gallery in Decorah, Iowa explores the way that weather and time change our world.

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“Elegant Decay” will present nine new works of pastel on board, produced after leading two student groups on travels through Italy this summer.

Lawing has captured the “history of place” in these works, rendering pastels that record water damage, construction changes, paint and stone deterioration throughout Venice.

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The exhibition opens October 4^th in Decorah, IA and will run through October, then opens in November at the Lyon Smith Gallery in Winona as part of the Downtown Art Party on the first Tuesday of each month.

For more information contact Preston Lawing at plawing@smumn.edu.