$125 each

Sale proceeds will be donated to the Augsburg Urban Arboretum Fund, a dynamic multi-functional green space that deepens the student, faculty, and community experience through hands-on education, research and recreational programs, serving as a sustainable anchor for our urban environment.

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INNOVATIEF MAATSCHAPPIJ: INNOVATIVE SOCIETY

September 26–October 30

Reception: Sept. 26, 5:30–7p.m.

This past summer, twenty-one students and two professors traveled to the Netherlands to explore the question “What makes a society innovative?”��Framed through a camera lens and historical thinking, they traced the creative Dutch approaches to agriculture, water management, transportation, and social design.

Gallery 720, Christensen Center

M-F, 10a.m.-7p.m.

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Xariir – Khadijah Muse

August 1 – 29, Gage Gallery

Artists Talk & Reception: August 17, 2019, 6pm, Gage Family Art Gallery

Statement

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October 24–December 18

Reception: October 24, 6-8 p.m.

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between lost and found

October 24-December 18, 2019

Reception: October 24, 6-8p.m., Gage Gallery

Wendland’s brightly colored, mixed media paintings set up conflicts between contradictory shapes, encouraging an encounter and awareness to these relationships in our landscape.

Artist Statement

Collecting from the natural world and influence of architecture, my work explores the abstract gestures beneath the organic and structural. My relationship to our ever-shifting landscape fuels my current practice. I observe my presence to these spaces through sketching from observation. Elements of these sketches lead to my larger works, a layered process of painting utilizing acrylic and gouache on paper and duralar. Pinned layers of floating strokes create multiple layers for interaction.

Grounded in an interplay of color and shape, a visual language between two-dimensional and three-dimensional segments is formed.�� My work sets up conflicts between contradictory shapes, encouraging an encounter and awareness to these relationships in our landscape.

By recalling my encounters, the work assembles momentary glimpses and memories of landscape in space.�� Through these explorations, the work confronts viewers’ assumptions about space and place, while casting familiar landscapes into new contexts.

Bio

Lyz Wendland is a visual artist living and working in Stillwater, Minnesota. She received her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her BFA in drawing, painting and art history from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums regionally and nationally. Lyz has been the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Project Grant and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. She has received numerous faculty development grants and awards for her research on improving participation, critical thinking and motivation relating to art critiques in studio courses. Currently, Lyz is Assistant Professor of Art at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota teaching drawing, painting and design.

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SOOMAAL FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION – 2019

Soo Bood, Bood / Come Jump, Jump – Kaamil A. Haider

August 1 – 29, Gage Gallery

Artists Talk & Reception: August 17, 2019, 6pm, Gage Family Art Gallery

Artist Statement

Soo Bood, Bood / Come Jump, Jump is a multi-channel video installation that uses traditional Somali dance as its starting point. The work examines the internal environment and logic of dance and its accompanying elements of movements and sound. Dance, as in all cultures, particularly in this Somali cultural context, call for many reasons, e.g., celebration, social connection, and self expression. This installation offers varied vignettes of the transformation and transcendence the body assumes as the dancers move, chant, clap and stomp in a unified frenzied rhythm.

In his practice, the artist’s engagement and preoccupation with rituals through repetition are related to his exploration of memory, archives and experiences of his community. Themes of discussion found in this installation, and in many other works by the artist, are constant discourse within the Somali diaspora communities such as the passage of knowledge, rituals and physical connection with their heritage as they forge a new life in their new homes.

Bio

Kaamil A. Haider is Somali born visual artist and graphic designer based in Minneapolis. He has received his B.F.A. in Graphic Design at the College of Design, University of Minnesota. In his art practice, Kaamil considers the power of memory and archives in relation to his personal experiences and that of his larger community. With over a dozen exhibitions, themes of discussion found in his artworks are constant discourse within the Somali diaspora communities such as the passage of knowledge, rituals and physical connection with their heritage as they forge a new life in their receiving societies.

In addition, Kaamil is a co-founder of Soomaal House of Art, a Minneapolis based Somali artists collective supporting a growing number of emerging and established Somali artists living in Minnesota and beyond. He is the recipient of the 2018 University of Minnesota Alumni Association’s U40 Alumni Leader Award for his academic achievement and community engagement through Soomaal. Kaamil is one of the two 2019 Soomaal Fellows, an initiative by Soomaal House of Art and in partnership with Augsburg University Art Galleries. He is also a 2019 Springboard for the Arts’ 20/20 Artist Fellow.

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ALUMNI ART Exhibition 2019

September 16–October 11, Gage & Christensen Galleries

Reception September 26, 6–8 p.m.

Awards @ 7 p.m. in the Oren Gateway Center Lobby

The biennial alumni show is open to all Augsburg alumni and showcases their most current work. This year, we are honored to have Keisha Williams, Curatorial Department Assistant and Artist Liaison in Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, as our juror. The exhibition contains work from 23 alumni who graduated between 1967 and 2017 with degrees ranging from Art, Art History, Business, Communications, Education, English, Psychology, and Sociology.

Keisha Williams is the Curatorial Department Assistant and Artist Liaison in Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. She holds an MA in Visual Arts Management and Curating from Richmond the American International University in London, as well as an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Leeds. While in the UK, she worked at both the Battersea Arts Centre and the National Maritime Museum where she spearheaded projects on International Slavery Remembrance Day as well as a festival-wide takeover event with BAC Young Producers. She is a contributing author to the recent Routledge publication Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity and Critical Event Studies.

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MArch 11- 28, 2019

Gallery 720, Christensen Center

SENIOR SHOW
LINH DAO

Bio

Linh Dao Le Thuy is a Graphic Design and New Media double major at Augsburg University. She attended college in Japan for 3 years and then transferred to Augsburg. Her interests lie in the trans-disciplinary of media and art, especially in how art can be a form of cross-cultural communication. With that, her study and research focus on the connection between the art’s visual representation and the audience’s perception.

Artist Statement

Power of Language is a project that consist of an event from the International Education Week in November at Augsburg University. I designed the project as a way to celebrate and appreciate the beauty of language. I believe language is a part of a person’s identity, and art is about people. Living in a globalized society, as individuals, we must learn to embrace differences and find common ground for harmony. There are more than 6,000 spoken languages in the world, and even more dead languages. Among those spoken languages, some languages have very few people whom are still using it. Language is also culture, and it needs to be reserved as well as respected.

I started this project in May 2018. It started out as an idea for a language celebration workshop for the Augsburg International Student Organization that I was in. Then as I planned and thought about the visual aspect of this project, I wanted to expand it. To me, art is communication. I want my audiences to experience the Power of Language and recognize their own identities, as well as call for their appreciation to other languages around the World.

The event was on November 2018 with the participation of over a hundred students on the Augsburg University campus. There were workshops about the linguistic knowledge of different cultures and countries, and I successfully distributed 100 shirts to the students to spread the ideology. To make the design more visible, I currently run multiple social media strategies to capture attention and involvement of the community. I recapture the process of Power of Language on the left side of the exhibition, and on the right side is the visual representation of language.

This project will show how design is a trans-disciplinary media, and how art is about connectivity, as I believe that the beauty lies within the people. This exhibition happens because of the people who participated in it, physically or virtually, then calls out to the uniqueness of individual identity: language.

Images of Exhibition

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February 25 – MArch 7, 2019

Gallery 720, Christensen Center

SENIOR SHOW
TYLER HALL

Bio

Tyler Hall is a graphic designer and photographer from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. He is a student at Augsburg University studying graphic design. He has learned photography himself and has been practicing for almost 10 years.

Artist Statement

In this series of collages I explore the idea of change over time. I use photos of significant places that hold value to my childhood as the base of these collages. I began visiting and photographing these places and extracting things from them in Photoshop. All other images are stock photos that were found on the internet. These places have changed and look much different now; the collages are set up as a comparison between the look of these spaces then versus now. The associations of these significant places are represented by portraits, colors and objects from my memories. These things are placed in my “then” side of my collages. To represent the “now” side, which for me is emptier and less dynamic, I’ve edited the photos to look aged. This series is a nostalgic experience that explores how things change over time and the memories we hold onto from our pasts.

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February 11 – February 21, 2019

Gallery 720, Christensen Center

SENIOR SHOW
KRIS LEATHERS

Bio

Kris Leathers is a Minneapolis-based visual artist and illustrator finishing his BA in Studio Arts at Augsburg University. The overall theme of his work deals with the physical self, versus, the metaphysical collection of consciousness. Through various motifs, he illustrates a lens into his personal narrative.

Artist Statement

Obsession- An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind. My work is an examination of how line and dot can be used in various forms, through the application of pen and ink to create my desired outcome. Through this collection of work, my theme is the physical self, versus the metaphysical collection of consciousness. With my creative process, comes my obsessive nature for each element of the composition to be exact, which results in various emotions from ambition to exhaustion. Combined with my respect of the formalities and visual variance of geometry, I intertwine myself into the work by showing the viewer the raw obsessiveness of who I am and what I create. The repeated patterns throughout each composition allude to my precise creative practice as well as the exactness of each element that I chose to demonstrate.

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