Special Topics: Gallery Design and Installation
Date: December 6, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm CST
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Price: Free
Category: Vickie Benson Resource Lab
Special Topics: Gallery Design and Installation
Artists/curators/installers Alison Hiltner (SooVAC) and Prerna will lead this interactive, in-person workshop on gallery design and installation. Bring images, videos, or drawings to share a specific installation challenge you have with your practice, and Alison Hiltner and Prerna will share their problem-solving processes with you. Get hands-on experience on gallery design and install, and learn what it takes to turn a blank wall into a visually appealing exhibition space.
Special Topics is a monthly series when regular Resource Lab staff are joined by special guests to provide free in person assistance on a variety of subjects, with a focus on technological, legal and financial needs.
Alison Hiltner (she/her) is a multi-media installation artist and the associate director of Soo Visual Arts Center. Hiltner has exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions; some of her credits include shows at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Telemark Art Center in Norway, Weisman Art Museum, 16 Tech in Indianapolis, Rochester Art Center, and UCLA Art | Sci Center in Los Angeles. She received several Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants, three MRAC/McKnight Foundation Next Step Grants, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, an Artists on the Verge Northern Lights/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, two McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships, and an artist in residence at University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine through an experimental program at the Weisman Art Museum. Most recently, Hiltner received the 2024 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship with upcoming solo exhibitions at the University of Minnesota Morris Edward J. and Helen Jane Morrison Gallery in the fall of 2024 and Practice Gallery in Philadelphia in 2025. www.alisonhiltner.com
Prerna (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mumbai, India. In her most recent works she engages with familial archives and governmental documents to discern the overlapping elements of bureaucracy and superstition, arguing that they are two sides of the same coin. She is interested in her relationship to being the subject and being subjected. Prerna received her MFA from University of Minnesota. She has been awarded global opportunities and residencies, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Artists for Artists Edition 4: Language Is Never on the Ground and ACRE. Prerna has exhibited at SooVAC, LUMP Gallery, SNAG Gallery, and Papa Projects. Her work has been published in The Other Way Around, a catalog of artists at University of Minnesota and Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin, and the visual art magazine FAKE.
Date: Friday, December 6, 2024
Time: 1:00 – 3:30 PM Central Time
Location: Vickie Benson Resource Lab (2nd floor), Springboard for the Arts, 262 University Ave. W., St. Paul, MN 55103
Registration: Limited number of spaces available. Click the Register button above. If you have questions, or if you’d like to be placed on a waitlist when the spaces are filled, email Andy at andy@springboardforthearts.