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National Tour of 'Stoked: Five Artists of Fire and Clay' Exhibit Stops at St. Thomas Sept. 14 to Jan. 10
University NewsThe exhibit features 80 works by St. John’s master potter Richard Bresnahan and four of his former apprentices. The opening lecture and reception are Oct. 4.
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The House as Art: Learning from Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House
We all live somewhere, be it a house, apartment or dormitory. Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.” In other words, a house is a reflection of who we are. This knowledge drives the way I teach the Introduction… -
Frank Gehry: From Architect to Icon
St. Thomas' Gainey Center is the new home of Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House -
Asmat Art Finds a Home at St. Thomas
More than 8,000 miles away from Minnesota live the Asmat, a semi-nomadic people who inhabit the dense coastal rainforest of West Papua, Indonesia. Asmat art and artifacts – including shields, spears and masks – that the Crosiers collected in the last half century have found a new home at the University of St. Thomas in… -
Hard Rain
Our headlong collision with nature -
'If These Walls Could Talk'
University NewsLast year for the first St. Thomas Heritage Week celebration, students in my Sacred Architecture course led tours of the chapels of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Mary. This year under the Heritage Week theme, "If These Walls Could Talk: From Dreams to Reality," students in my American Architecture course focused on campus planning. A…