In October, Rockpoolcandy and Mytarpit visited campus.  They workshopped  with SLU students, created scads of cool stuff, and instigated an outdoor giveaway art exhibition.  Rockpoolcandy even made a loom!

Our next exhibition features West African textiles donated to SLU by Chris Roy ‘70 and Nora Leonard Roy ‘69.

I’ll be updating details in the  Gallery website in the next day or two, but there is an exhibition checklist available.

The view from the Griffiths loading dock will never be the same.

I’ve done a little repair work (finessing? is that a better word?) to the links for the image collections, so they should be functioning better now.

The link is now fixed, but all of the links to CONTENTdm collections need further refinement.  That bit of tweaking should happen fairly shortly, but you can access the image collections from the gallery web page at http://www.stlawu.edu/gallery.

On Saturday, the gallery held a reception for the Wild Things exhibition of wildlife photography by Melissa Burchard.  The turnout was fantastic!

Melissa with Bart and Margaret Harloe

Melissa with her friends and family

a few vinyl toys

Dianne Drayse-Alonso brought some students from Ogdensburg Free Academy at the tail end of the spring semester to see some of the toys from the SLU Permanent Collection.  The students were making plushes and thinking about how artists view the relation between commercial and fine art.

and gloomy bear

Be sure to come to the reception for the Senior Art Exhibition on Thursday, April 30 at 7:00!

Art!  DJ David Sommerstein from the Beat Authority!  World music!  Snacks!

The Rickey sculpture is perfect on a bright, winter day.

Cluster of Four Cubes, by George Rickey

Cluster of Four Cubes (detail)

Thanks to John Larrance (PCA), we were able to see the inauguration on the big screen in the Gulick Theatre!