The Edward J. and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery at the University of Minnesota Morris has announced its fall semester exhibition schedule.
Photographs by Donald S. Clark and a mixed media display by Phyllis Joos will open the semester and are scheduled to run from Aug. 26-Oct. 11.
Main Floor: Donald S. Clark, The Nature Writers Project
Over the past five years, Professor of Art/Photography Donald S. Clark (School of Media Arts & Design, Minnesota State University Moorhead) has been photographing the places that influenced the work of nature writers and has traveled over 35,000 miles to photograph the land instrumental to 44 authors, including John Burroughs, Akiko Busch, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Linda Hasselstrom, Aldo Leopold, Sigurd Olson, Theodore Roosevelt, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Bill Belleville, Barbara Kingsolver, Gretel Erhlich, Paul Gruchow, Edward Abbey, Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams, Ada Limón, Craig Santos Perez, Peter Matthiessen, and Linda Hogan.
Clark is particularly interested in how the land, and the author’s interaction with the land, influences their writings. "In my work, I seek to discover and document the draw that these places had/have on these individuals. I am interested in both the scientific significance of these lands and the mystical power of place. I believe the strongest nature/environmental writers always blend these two concerns in their work."
Mezzanine Level: Phyllis Joos, Story Fragments
Phyllis Joos is a printmaker and book artist from Hancock. More importantly, she has been a fixture within the UMN Morris Studio Discipline since the 1990s and has influenced countless students with her ingenuity, dedication, and joy for her process. This collection of work features Joos' signature layering of imagery, textures and color in etchings, book forms and mixed media works.
The second exhibit for the semester is a multimedia and interactive display, which runs from Oct. 24-Dec. 1.
Alison Hiltner: Our Lives Once Removed
Alison Hiltner's visual arts practice explores how science fiction cinema influences our current understanding of scientific research and how that filter of knowledge will affect technological advancement in the future. This examination takes the form of multimedia installation and interactive display. Hiltner has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions; some of her recent credits include shows at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Telemark Art Center in Skien, Norway, the Weisman Art Museum, and 16 Tech in Indianapolis. She has received numerous Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants, a 2018-19 McKnight Fellow in visual arts, and an artist in residence at the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine through an experimental program at the Weisman Art Museum. Most recently, Hiltner received the 2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
The Edward J. and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery is located in the Humanities Fine Arts Building on the University of Minnesota Morris campus. Hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon-4 p.m. on Saturdays.