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Previous Exhibitions 2005-2006
  
Scandinavian Photography 2: Denmark
July 1 - September 11, 2005
Faulconer Gallery
The second of five exhibitions to examine Scandinavian photography at the beginning of the 21st century, this exhibition crosses the Oresund Bridge, completed in 2000, that links Sweden and Denmark by road and railway for the first time in human history. Denmark has a large and thriving community of active photographers, many of whom have not exhibited in the United States until now. Curated by Dan Strong, associate director and curator of exhibitions.
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Summer School at the Seashore: Watercolors by Edith A. Sternfeld
August 22 - September 18, 2005
Chrystal Center Gallery
Curated from the Grinnell College Art Collection by Faulconer Gallery intern Nicole Bungert '06.
  
An Impressionist Eye:
Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation

September 30 - December 11, 2005
This intimate exhibition of approximately 30 works, organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, includes exceptional works by many of the great masters of 19th-century French painting – Bonnard, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Vuillard, among others. This exhibition reveals the distinctly personal character of a collection lovingly acquired for a private home. Janice Levin (1913–2001) was an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1993 until her death. The national tour of this exhibition is organized by the American Federation of the Arts.
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Impressionist Prints from the Grinnell College Art Collection
September 30 - December 11, 2005
Works from the 1850s through the 1920s, created by Millet, Whistler, Cezanne, Picasso, Matulka, and others.
  
This, too, shall pass: Prints by Jiri Anderle
December 6, 2005 - February 2006
John Chrystal Center, lower level gallery
Curated from the Grinnell College Art Collection by Faulconer Gallery intern Eszter Csicsai '07
  
Hin: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Bamboo Art
January 27 - March 19, 2006
Amazing contemporary examples of woven bamboo, an ancient Japanese art form. This exhibition draws upon 18 American collections, to present an astonishing variety of bamboo art by 37 artists. Works range from functional to sculptural, demonstrating contemporary experimentation informed by the long tradition of bamboo arts in Japan. Most baskets were completed in the last 5 years, each requiring 1-3 months to weave. Guest curated by Donald Doe and Rob Coffland.
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Twelve Black Classicists
February 1 - March 14, 2006
Print and Drawing Study Room
Images of African-Americans engaged with the study of classics. Exhibition research and design by Michele Valerie Ronnick, Associate Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. Production cost funded by the James Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Department of Classics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Circulated by the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, Ohio.
  
Walter Sickert's Narrative Modernism
February 3 - March 17, 2006
Print and Drawing Study Room
Images reproduced in the British journal The New Age (1910-1914), exploring Sickert's impact on British modernism. All of the works in the exhibition on loan from the Modernist Journals Project, Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University. Guest curated by Pamela Soulos '05.
  
The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy
February 10 - April 16, 2006
An exhibition of Swiss bridge design, in conjunction with the Physics Department. Curated by Professor David Billington, Princeton University.

The exhibition was organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Princeton University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
  
Voices of American Farm Women
March 25 - April 30, 2006
Burling Gallery
Black and white photographs of women who farm around the United States. A program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Art Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts and Valmont Foundation.
  
Ruined: Memory, Image and Survival
April 28 - May 26, 2006
Photographs by Paul Caponigro, Martin Blume, Amy Lilienfeld, Douglas I. Busch, Roger Minick and Simon Norfolk mark the cycles of survival and destruction as they examine memory. These photographs focus on ruins of the past (ancient or recent) lingering in the present. Photography from the Grinnell College Art Collection, curated by Faulconer Gallery intern Christine Hancock '06.
  
Artists at and after Grinnell
April 3 - May 22, 2006
Featuring work by professors Matthew Kluber, Bobbie McKibbin, Lee Running, Jill Schrift, Merle Zirkle, and alumni Susan Arthur '91, Bennett Bean '63, Lari Gibbons '93, Gregory Miguel Gomez '80, Sheldon Tapley '80, and Ruslan Trusewych '03.
  
Annual Student Art Salon
May 5 - May 22, 2006
Juried exhibition of work by students enrolled in art courses at Grinnell College 2005-2006.
Student Art Salon Participants and awards
 

All-Alumni Art Show
June 2 - July 2, 2006
An exhibition open to all Grinnell alumni who make art. Including work submitted by over 50 alumni.

Watercolors by Edith Sternfeld
May 22 - June 4
Print and Drawing Study Room, Burling Library

West to the Water: Six Poets: A Santa Cruz Portfolio
(six framed poems) The Lime Kiln Press, 1972.
Gift of Robert C. Mercer to the Grinnell College Art Collection in honor of Erin Mercer's graduation, Class of 1997. Burling Library, lower level

New Acquisition: Jane Hammond, Love Laughs (at Locksmiths), 2005
lithograph, collage, with handcoloring. Printed at Shark's Ink Press, Lyons, Colorado. Grinnell College Art Collection, Marie-Louise and Samuel Rosenthal Fund, 2006.1. Burling Library, lower level


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