Events

The Carleton College Art Gallery will kick-off its fall season with an exhibition showcasing fine art prints created by artists from Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada, and Hawaii. Prints Around the Pacific Rim, running from September 17 to November 17, 2010, celebrates the varied method of printmakers, and highlights artistic exchange between cultures across the wide Pacific. Prints Around the Pacific Rim is also one of many fall events coinciding with the Mid America Print Council Conference, Old World/New World, taking place in the Twin Cities in mid-October.

R. Dale Guthrie, Distinguished Paleobiologist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, will deliver the weekly convocation address at Carleton College on Friday, October 15 at 10:50a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. Widely known for his landmark study, The Natural History of Paleolithic Art (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Guthrie was the first to use information and ideas from natural history and studies of human universals in approaching the thousands of art images made by the members of the Eurasian Ice Age Bands. While art historians have wrestled with these images for years, Guthrie was the first scientist to weigh in on Paleolithic art as artifacts of a complex, breathing society. His presentation, entitled “Evolution of Art, Morality, and Romantic Love in the Ice Age Human Band,” is free and open to the public.