Events and Speakers

The Tweed Museum of Art hosts numerous special events and artist lectures, including the Art + Design Lecture Series, a joint venture of the Department of Art + Design and the Tweed Museum of Art that brings artists and designers to UMD to speak about their work and experience. Events are held in the Tweed Lecture Gallery unless otherwise noted.

'08-'09 Visual Artist Lectures

Allen D "Big Al" Carter / September 16, 2008

Tuesday, 6pm

Danie Keyman / September 23, 2008

Tuesday, 6pm

Anne Burdick / October 27, 2008

Tuesday, 6pm

Robert Newman / November 11, 2008

Tuesday, 6pm

JulieL'Enfant / November 18, 2008

Tuesday, 6pm

Vance Gellert / March 10, 2009

Tuesday, 6pm

Jerome Witkin / March 24, 2009

Tuesday, 6pm

Cole Rodgers / April 2, 2009

Thursday, 10am

Mike Tincher / April 2, 2009

Thursday, 2pm

Allen D. "Big Al" Carter

Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6pm

Big Al Carter’s appearance in the lecture series is in conjunction with an exhibition of his work, “Apart at the Seams,” which runs in the Tweed Museum of Art until November 2. An artist and art teacher in Washington, DC, Carter has produced housefuls of paintings, prints, and sculpture but has resisted the conventional corridors of success in order to go his own way. For as far back as he can remember, he had an overpowering urge to sketch. Even the threat of a smack from his mother’s hands was not enough to prevent him from compulsively rendering faces, fishing rods, and birds on her house’s blank white walls. He is dazzled by the puzzles of shadow and light that he sees on the faces of the people he passes on the street and is compelled to bring them to life on canvas. Carter’s paintings are larger than life in size and power and scope – an equal to the artist’s personality, to his reputation as a painter’s painter and to his career as a distinguished teacher and mentor to young artists.

Daniel Heyman

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 6pm

Philadelphia-based Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, has recently concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey, where he has talked face to face with more than 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of their American captors.

“Sometimes people think art should be pretty, and this isn’t very pretty,” Heyman admits.

Anne Burdick

Tuesday, October 7, 2087, 6pm

Anne Burdick teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and is the Chair of the graduate Media Design Program (MDP) at Art Center College of Design. Most recently Anne was the lead designer and a contributing writer for the MDP’s first transmedia publication, The New Ecology of Things, which includes a book, cell phone content, a book jacket/poster, and a website.

Burdick’s hybrid practice, the Offices of Anne Burdick, mixes graphic design, editing, and writing in a range of projects from collaborative literary experiments to institutional communications. She is the Design Editor of Electronic Book Review, where she collaborates with texts and writers to produce new modes of reading and writing in diverse media, including the Mediawork book and web supplement, Writing Machines, by N. Katherine Hayles.

Robert Newman

Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 6pm

Robert Newman has recently been the design director of Fortune magazine and the creative director of Real Simple. Having worked in New York City since 1986, he also spent many years as design director to Inside, Vibe, Details, New York, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, and Guitar World. During a 10-year residency in Seattle, he worked as editor of The Rocket music magazine, design director of the alternative weekly Seattle Sun, and a principal in the design company Square Studio.

Newman is a graduate of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. After graduation he spent years in Ohio, Washington, DC, and Seattle as a political organizer, food co-op manager, newspaper editor, printer, pasteup artist, and typesetter. More recently, Newman is currently the consulting art director of Cottage Living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a past president of the Society of Publication Designers and a frequent lecturer to schools, conferences, and art director groups.

Julie L'Enfant

Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 6pm

In conjunction with the exhibition “Draw to Live and Live to Draw: Prints and Illustrations by Wanda Gag” (at the Tweed Museum of Art from November 11, 2008 to March 22, 2009), the Tweed presents a lecture by Julie L’Enfant, author of The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America. An associate professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul and recipient of Ph.D degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Minnesota, L’Enfant has written and lectured nationally about American art and artists.

Vance Gellert

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 6pm

Vance Gellert, Minneapolis, uses photography, participation, and interviews to construct photographic forays into other cultures. Gellert, also a pharmacologist, has researched how healing rituals within particular cultures work with their medicinal plants to affect healing. He studies individual societies’ cultural traditions to begin understanding their rituals, then creates a series of conceptual photographs to recreate the spiritual environment of the places he visits. His photographic journeys provide a foundation that is used to discuss the interface of traditional and scientific medicine and how art can help people to understand the esoteric issues of healing and wellness. Photography is used both as a “recorder of fact” and as an “an art form… infused with layers of meaning and nuance that give the ‘facts’ it records a human and emotional connection.”

Geller’s recent project, REAL: Artists and Landscapes, is on exhibit in the Tweed Museum from March 10-September 6. For this project, he sought out untrained artists throughout the state -- some of them farmers, hairdressers, and motorcycle mechanics making art out of materials such as seeds, mud, scrap steel, and rocks, and made a photographic portrait of the artist in their home or studio, along with an image of a nearby landscape.

Jerome Witkin

Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6pm

From his grim scenes of Holocaust barbarism to his visceral self-portraits, the psychological complexity of Jerome Witkin’s art is displayed with rare mastery. A painter who conveys moral messages in his artwork, Witkin has "resuscitated narrative painting after the heyday of abstraction." Witkin’s paintings, done exclusively in oil, are often laden with narrative figures and symbolic images, constructed as diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs in cinematic sequences, to be “read” from left to right. Witkin has also been called a “master of narrative figuration” for his acute observations of expressive postures and body language.

Born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, Witkin attended Cooper Union from 1957-60. Both an artist and teacher, his first job was at Maryland Institute’s College of Art in Baltimore in 1961. Since then has held several teaching positions and been appointed as visiting artist at many universities both domestically and abroad. His work can be found in many public collections, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

Cole Rodgers

Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10am

Cole Rogers is artistic director and master printer at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, a facility which aims to provide educational and professional services in the realm of printmaking. Rogers has been involved with more that 70 collaborations with professional artists from across the United States and around the world, and the works published by Highpoint Editions under Rogers have been featured at the International Print Center NY and have been acquired for the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Tweed Museum.

Rogers will be serving as one of two external jurors for the annual UMD Art + Design Student Show (opens April 11) at the Tweed Museum.

Mike Tincher

Thurday, April 2, 2009, 6pm

Tincher, a graphic designer in Minneapolis, will be serving as one of two external jurors for the annual UMD Art + Design Student Show (opens April 11) at the Tweed Museum.

Museum Hours
Tuesday 9:00am – 8:00pm
Wednesday – Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm
Saturday and Sunday 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Closed Mondays and University Holidays

Directions to the Tweed

Senior Exhibitions

Students in the University of Minnesota Duluth's School of Fine Arts have their senior exhibition in the Tweed Student Gallery as a requirement for graduation. Through exhibitions or alternative public presentations, students become familiar with the professional expectations of museums, galleries, and other public venues.

A new opening reception takes place every

Tuesday at 4:00 – 6:00pm throughout the year.

September 2 - 7
Kelsey G. Engel

September 9 -14
Carl Salmela

September 16 - 21
Sarah Mennes

September 23 -28
Robert Callahan

Sept 30 - October 5
Shawn Wynne

Jarrod Kintzi

October 7 - 12
Jeff Schwarten

October 14 - 19
Nicole Freeman

Kate Dupre

October 21 - 26
Michael Kantor

Natalie Patrick

Katie Gangelhoff

October 28 - Nov 2
Clark Anderson

November 4 - 9
Jill Raymond
Debra Lindholm

November 11 - 16
Melissa Aydt

November 18 - 23
Laura Mayerle

Sam Hendricks

December 2 -7
Joshua Hammari

December 9 - 14
Christina Hoeker


Events and Speakers The Tweed Museum of Art hosts numerous special events and artist lectures, including the Art + Design Lecture Series, a joint venture of the Department of Art + Design and the Tweed Museum of Art that brings artists and designers to UMD to speak about their work and experience. Events are held in the Tweed Lecture Gallery unless otherwise noted. '08-'09 Visual Artist Lectures Allen D "Big Al" Carter / September 16, 2008 Tuesday, 6pm Danie Keyman / September 23, 2008 Tuesday, 6pm Anne Burdick / October 27, 2008 Tuesday, 6pm Robert Newman / November 11, 2008 Tuesday, 6pm JulieL'Enfant / November 18, 2008 Tuesday, 6pm Vance Gellert / March 10, 2009 Tuesday, 6pm Jerome Witkin / March 24, 2009 Tuesday, 6pm Cole Rodgers / April 2, 2009 Thursday, 10am Mike Tincher / April 2, 2009 Thursday, 2pm Allen D. "Big Al" Carter Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 6pm Big Al Carter’s appearance in the lecture series is in conjunction with an exhibition of his work, “Apart at the Seams,” which runs in the Tweed Museum of Art until November 2. An artist and art teacher in Washington, DC, Carter has produced housefuls of paintings, prints, and sculpture but has resisted the conventional corridors of success in order to go his own way. For as far back as he can remember, he had an overpowering urge to sketch. Even the threat of a smack from his mother’s hands was not enough to prevent him from compulsively rendering faces, fishing rods, and birds on her house’s blank white walls. He is dazzled by the puzzles of shadow and light that he sees on the faces of the people he passes on the street and is compelled to bring them to life on canvas. Carter’s paintings are larger than life in size and power and scope – an equal to the artist’s personality, to his reputation as a painter’s painter and to his career as a distinguished teacher and mentor to young artists. Daniel Heyman Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 6pm Philadelphia-based Daniel Heyman, painter and printmaker, has recently concentrated his art on making images about the war in Iraq, specifically the abuse and torture of innocent Iraqis at Abu Ghraib and other prisons. For this work, Heyman traveled to Jordan and Turkey, where he has talked face to face with more than 25 former detainees, painting their portraits and taking down their own versions of what happened to them at the hands of their American captors. “Sometimes people think art should be pretty, and this isn’t very pretty,” Heyman admits. Anne Burdick Tuesday, October 7, 2087, 6pm Anne Burdick teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and is the Chair of the graduate Media Design Program (MDP) at Art Center College of Design. Most recently Anne was the lead designer and a contributing writer for the MDP’s first transmedia publication, The New Ecology of Things, which includes a book, cell phone content, a book jacket/poster, and a website. Burdick’s hybrid practice, the Offices of Anne Burdick, mixes graphic design, editing, and writing in a range of projects from collaborative literary experiments to institutional communications. She is the Design Editor of Electronic Book Review, where she collaborates with texts and writers to produce new modes of reading and writing in diverse media, including the Mediawork book and web supplement, Writing Machines, by N. Katherine Hayles. Robert Newman Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 6pm Robert Newman has recently been the design director of Fortune magazine and the creative director of Real Simple. Having worked in New York City since 1986, he also spent many years as design director to Inside, Vibe, Details, New York, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, and Guitar World. During a 10-year residency in Seattle, he worked as editor of The Rocket music magazine, design director of the alternative weekly Seattle Sun, and a principal in the design company Square Studio. Newman is a graduate of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. After graduation he spent years in Ohio, Washington, DC, and Seattle as a political organizer, food co-op manager, newspaper editor, printer, pasteup artist, and typesetter. More recently, Newman is currently the consulting art director of Cottage Living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a past president of the Society of Publication Designers and a frequent lecturer to schools, conferences, and art director groups. Julie L'Enfant Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 6pm In conjunction with the exhibition “Draw to Live and Live to Draw: Prints and Illustrations by Wanda Gag” (at the Tweed Museum of Art from November 11, 2008 to March 22, 2009), the Tweed presents a lecture by Julie L’Enfant, author of The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America. An associate professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul and recipient of Ph.D degrees from Louisiana State University and the University of Minnesota, L’Enfant has written and lectured nationally about American art and artists. Vance Gellert Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 6pm Vance Gellert, Minneapolis, uses photography, participation, and interviews to construct photographic forays into other cultures. Gellert, also a pharmacologist, has researched how healing rituals within particular cultures work with their medicinal plants to affect healing. He studies individual societies’ cultural traditions to begin understanding their rituals, then creates a series of conceptual photographs to recreate the spiritual environment of the places he visits. His photographic journeys provide a foundation that is used to discuss the interface of traditional and scientific medicine and how art can help people to understand the esoteric issues of healing and wellness. Photography is used both as a “recorder of fact” and as an “an art form… infused with layers of meaning and nuance that give the ‘facts’ it records a human and emotional connection.” Geller’s recent project, REAL: Artists and Landscapes, is on exhibit in the Tweed Museum from March 10-September 6. For this project, he sought out untrained artists throughout the state -- some of them farmers, hairdressers, and motorcycle mechanics making art out of materials such as seeds, mud, scrap steel, and rocks, and made a photographic portrait of the artist in their home or studio, along with an image of a nearby landscape. Jerome Witkin Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 6pm From his grim scenes of Holocaust barbarism to his visceral self-portraits, the psychological complexity of Jerome Witkin’s art is displayed with rare mastery. A painter who conveys moral messages in his artwork, Witkin has "resuscitated narrative painting after the heyday of abstraction." Witkin’s paintings, done exclusively in oil, are often laden with narrative figures and symbolic images, constructed as diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs in cinematic sequences, to be “read” from left to right. Witkin has also been called a “master of narrative figuration” for his acute observations of expressive postures and body language. Born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, Witkin attended Cooper Union from 1957-60. Both an artist and teacher, his first job was at Maryland Institute’s College of Art in Baltimore in 1961. Since then has held several teaching positions and been appointed as visiting artist at many universities both domestically and abroad. His work can be found in many public collections, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Cole Rodgers Thursday, April 2, 2009, 10am Cole Rogers is artistic director and master printer at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, a facility which aims to provide educational and professional services in the realm of printmaking. Rogers has been involved with more that 70 collaborations with professional artists from across the United States and around the world, and the works published by Highpoint Editions under Rogers have been featured at the International Print Center NY and have been acquired for the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Tweed Museum. Rogers will be serving as one of two external jurors for the annual UMD Art + Design Student Show (opens April 11) at the Tweed Museum. Mike Tincher Thurday, April 2, 2009, 6pm Tincher, a graphic designer in Minneapolis, will be serving as one of two external jurors for the annual UMD Art + Design Student Show (opens April 11) at the Tweed Museum. Museum Hours Tuesday 9:00am – 8:00pm Wednesday – Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm Saturday and Sunday 1:00pm – 5:00pm Closed Mondays and University Holidays Directions to the Tweed Senior Exhibitions Students in the University of Minnesota Duluth's School of Fine Arts have their senior exhibition in the Tweed Student Gallery as a requirement for graduation. Through exhibitions or alternative public presentations, students become familiar with the professional expectations of museums, galleries, and other public venues. A new opening reception takes place every Tuesday at 4:00 – 6:00pm throughout the year. September 2 - 7 Kelsey G. Engel September 9 -14 Carl Salmela September 16 - 21 Sarah Mennes September 23 -28 Robert Callahan Sept 30 - October 5 Shawn Wynne Jarrod Kintzi October 7 - 12 Jeff Schwarten October 14 - 19 Nicole Freeman Kate Dupre October 21 - 26 Michael Kantor Natalie Patrick Katie Gangelhoff October 28 - Nov 2 Clark Anderson November 4 - 9 Jill Raymond Debra Lindholm November 11 - 16 Melissa Aydt November 18 - 23 Laura Mayerle Sam Hendricks December 2 -7 Joshua Hammari December 9 - 14 Christina Hoeker