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New Student Orientation:
Blow-up Team Challenge

Aug 19, 2010

The CVA Blow-up Team Challenge: Create a Giant Inflatable Thingy is part of the College of Visual Arts (CVA) 2010 freshman orientation. On the second day of orientation students will break into six teams. As part of a 3-dimensional exercise, new CVA students are given two plastic drop cloths, two rolls of 3M clear packing tape, one roll of string, anchor stakes, and a blower. Each team is given two hours to design and fabricate a 3-dimensional work that has no function or purpose other than to exist inflated. Read More...

Harmonious Hunan

July 1, 2010

In partnership with the City of Saint Paul, Public Art Saint Paul, and US-China Peoples Friendship Association of Minnesota, CVA presents artwork from Saint Paul's Sister City Changsha, China. Master Lei Yixin, commissioned artist for the Martin Luther King, Jr. sculpture to be constructed in the National Mall of Washington DC, will display his latest accomplishments. Led by Master Lei, six of China's national renowned artists and twenty- two photographers will present their art works at the CVA Gallery. Read More...

2010 Leaders of Design Series

May 13, 2010

The College of Visual Arts is pleased to announce the fall 2010 Leaders of Design Series will feature Joel Templin, co-founder of Hatch Design, a San Francisco based firm. Joel Templin has enjoyed a successful design career spanning more than 17 years. He has been recognized as one of the most sought-after design professionals in the country and continues to innovate and create distinctive work for some of the world’s biggest brands. Read More...

Minnesota State Visual Arts Exhibition

May 11, 2010

It’s like going to State — but for artists! The Minnesota State High School League has long been the governing body for all high school sports and other fine arts activities like debate, one act play, and speech. Did you know that high school artists have also been “competing” similarly for a half-dozen years? Every spring talented high school students from throughout Minnesota participate in visual arts festivals at the section level. Read More...

Rachel Breen: Local Topography

April 12, 2010

The third exhibition in the Portals on Western exhibition program features the artist and work of Rachel Breen. The exhibition, Local Topography, is an installation with 30 silhouettes of people who live, work, and go to school in the neighborhood. The corner of Selby and Western avenues is a vibrant microcosm of the city of St. Paul—an intersection of race, class, culture, age, origin, history, and ethnicity. Breen’s approach was to ask: How do we understand community?
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Generation Abstraction: Selections from the Minnesota Museum of American Art

January 11, 2010

Mining the rich collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, this exhibition investigates the mid-century impulse to make art out of pure color, line, gesture, material, and surface. Starting with Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s through Minimalist forms in the 1970s, Generation Abstraction showcases a variety of responses to abstraction with important works by such artists as Joan Brown, George Morrison, Peter Voulkos, Eugene Larkin, and Louise Nevelson. Read More...

Illo Minn: Volume Two

January 8, 2010

Illo Minn: Volume Two is a biennial exhibition. 2010 features the work of 28 commercially active Minnesota illustrators. Each illustrator will exhibit a printed illustration with original artwork and a one of a kind Munny doll. Read More...