2012 press

Materialized: Jerome Fiber Artist Project Grants Exhibition

October 8, 2012

The College of Visual Arts and the Textile Center present Materialized: Jerome Fiber Artist Project Grants Exhibition. This exhibition is the culmination of the 2012 Fiber Artist Project Grants program, sponsored by the Jerome Foundation and designed to expand opportunities for emerging fiber artists in Minnesota. Read More...

The Lustigs: a cover story, 1933-1961

August 7, 2012

Alvin Lustig (1993 AIGA Medalist) and Elaine Lustig Cohen (2011 AIGA Medalist) created a distinctive body of design work that melded the ideas of European modernism with a uniquely American approach to graphic design. The Lustigs: A Cover Story exhibition will include covers designed and illustrated by Alvin and Elaine Lustig between 1933 and 1961.Read More...

That's Better:
An Installation by Aaron Dysart

August 7, 2012

Stemming from a desire to have animals lead a better life, That’s Better presents solutions to life’s problems for various species. These products will help better the appearance of the animal, or save them precious time in this hectic world. No longer will modern scientific advances be limited to easing the existence of just humans, because all animals are worth it. Read More...

Minnesota State Visual Arts
High School Exhibition

February 16, 2012

It’s like going to State — but for artists! Every spring talented high school students from throughout Minnesota participate in the Minnesota State High School League Visual Arts Festivals at the section level. The work of these award-winning young artists will be displayed at the Minnesota State Visual Arts High School Exhibition May 10 through May 19. Read More...

Illo Minn: Volume 3

January 5, 2012

This biennial Illustration exhibition that celebrates the unique and inventive work of 25 select Minnesota illustrators. Each participating illustrator will exhibit a printed illustration accompanied by its original artwork, an additional original artwork of their choice, and a Moleskine with a cover individually decorated by the illustrator. These unique one-of-a-kind decorated Moleskines will be sold in a silent auction during the exhibition reception. This silent auction will close at 7:30 p.m. Funds raised through the auction will go toward the CVA Scholarship Fund. Read More...

An Installation by Kenneth Steinbach

January 3, 2012

Walking: The New Forests of Thoreau’s America is part of the Portals on Western installation program and deals with the transformation of the myth of the North American landscape since Thoreau wrote the essay “Walking.” The work seeks to explore and challenge established cultural, historical, and personal mythologies we have about our natural world that are frequently based on ideas of ownership and dominion, and create a new context where our relationship to nature and understanding of power, control, and interaction in that relationship can be re-evaluated. Read More...