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Like a String Full of Knots Exhibition

Date	Thursday, February 19 - Sunday, April 19, 2026
Featuring	Artist: Pattie Chalmers
Location	Olson Gallery - View maps and directions Bethel University 3900 Bethel Dr St Paul MN 55112
Instructions for Guests	Park in the West Lot.

Event Description

On View: February 19 - April 19, 2026

Artist Talk: Thursday, February 19th at 6pm in the NEW Lake Valentine Room, CLC Building Room 109, Ground Level

Reception: following the talk in the Olson Gallery (CLC, 2nd Level) from 7-8pm

Virtual Viewing: Instagram @bethelgalleries

Image information: Pattie Chalmers, Every Day I Think of You (detail)

Join us for a solo exhibition of Pattie Chalmer's sculptural installation, objects and functional ceramic work. Although her various bodies of work in this exhibition may appear visually distinct, Chalmer's practice is linked by narrative and memory. Chalmer's work depicts some of life’s complicated experiences. For example, Every Day I Think of You is an installation that catalogs the recollections of a lifetime of relationships and loss through 365 terracotta objects. She is a storyteller, and through the narrative nature of her work, we encounter these stories as vignettes or visual poems. Chalmer's work offers the viewer a conduit to consider their own memories and commonalities - transcending individual stories towards shared human experiences.

About the Artist:

Pattie Chalmers received her BFA in printmaking from the University of Manitoba in Canada, and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited in group exhibitions on five continents, in six countries and thirty-six states and has had eight solo exhibitions in the past seven years, most recently Conjugating the Inevitable at the Quincy Art Center in Quincy, Illinois. Chalmers engages in a variety of approaches of making, resulting in the appearance of a somewhat frenetic studio practice. The suggestion of a narrative is the linchpin. Pattie is inherently an explainer and a storyteller and through her work attempts to map her experiences to give better understanding to others and herself. Chalmers is a Professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where she is also the Head of Graduate Studies and runs the ceramics program.

Questions?

Contact the Department of Art and Design at 651.638.6263 or email cas-art@bethel.edu

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