☰ In This Section

Olson Gallery

2022-23

Michelle Westmark Wingard
A Change in State
September 15 - October 9, 2022

Surface Tension
October 27 - December 16 2022

Peaceable Kingdom
February 13 - April 16 2023

2021-22

Jeff Wetzig
Free
September 7 - October 10, 2021

Matter + Spirit 
October 28 - December 10 2021

Nery Gabriel Lemus 
In This Place
February 14 - April 14, 2022

2020-21

Constructed Mysteries
Curated by Kenneth Steinbach & Michelle Westmark Wingard
February 8  - April 18, 2021

2019-20

Deborah Aschheim
Landmark
October 9 - December 20, 2019

Corita Kent
There Should Be Rules Next Week
February 10 - March 29, 2020

2018-19

Art + Design Biennial Faculty Show
August 18–September, 2018

Time, Space, & Process
October 8 - December 16, 2018

John Hitchock 
Flatlander - Belonging to the Land
February 7 - March 24, 2019

 

2017–18

Patty Wickman
Shadow Plays
April 5–May 26, 2018

Bari Ziperstein
Prop Art
February 8–March18, 2018

Sean Slemon
Confluence
October 18–December 16, 2017

Duane Ditty
Liminal
August 28–October 28, 2017

2016–17

Wendy Red Star
Documenting the Rez Car & HUD Houses of Pryor, Montana (Crow Indian Reservation)
April 6–May 27, 2017

Endi Poskovic
I Was Born Into These Lands
February 2–Mach 19, 2017

Bethel University Art and Design Faculty Show
August 29–October 2, 2016

2015–16

Devon Tsuno
Watershed Duplication
April 6–May 21, 2016

Between the Shadow and the Light
February 4–March 20, 2016

Simen Johan
Until the Kingdom Comes
September 17–December 18, 2015

2014–15

Jean Shin
Links
April 15–May 23, 2015

Albert Pedulla
Focalization
February 12–March 22, 2015

Mike Cloud
Paper Quilts
September 11–December 19, 2015

2013–14

George C. Poundstone
Curated by Christian A. Peterson, Grae Krussow, and Michelle Westmark
The Elements of a Picture

April 3–May 24, 2014

Julie Allen
Recent Work February 6–March 16, 2014

Mary Temple
Half Round
, from the Series Light Installations
September 12–December 20, 2013

2012–13

Swiss Bliss
Curated by Chris Larson
September 13–December 14, 2012 

Amanda Hamilton
The Life of Perished Things
February 7–March 17, 2013

Penelope Umbrico
April 11–May 25, 2013

2011–12

Work: Curse or Calling
September 15–December 18, 2011

John Silvis
Crashcourse III
February 2–March 11, 2012

Dale Johnson
Drawing Into Painting
April 2–May 26, 2012

2010–11

Restrike
Karin Bos, Wanda Ewing, Jon Lee, Beauvias Lyons, Alysia Kaplan
September 16–December 19, 2010

Guy Chase
Retrospective: Monochrome Plus
January 31–March 31, 2011 

Clay: 4 Perspectives
Heather Nameth Bren, Sandra Jean Ceas, KyoungHwa Oh, S.C. Rolf
March 31–May 22, 2011

2009–10

Lee Walton
Momentary Performances and Things that Last Longer
September 18–December 19, 2009 

Aaron VanDyke
“Photographs” and Paintings

February 4–March 28, 2010

Oliver Herring
Task +
April 14–June 6, 2010

2008–09

Jeff Wetzig
Check Paper Size and Direction

September 18–December 19, 2008

Regina Granne
Elegy: War Games
January 29–March 15, 2009 

Art and Text: images, Concepts, and Insights
Curated by Teresia Bush
March 26–June 21, 2009 

2007–08

Warrington Colescott
Color Etchings
September 20–December 19, 2007 

Dale Johnson
Shields of Faith
February 7–March 13, 2008

Visual InheritanceFive Generations from the Permanent Collection
April 1–May 31, 2008

2006–07

Michelle Grabner
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
September 22–December 20, 2006

Next Generation:
Contemporary Expressions of Faith

January 25–March 8, 2007 

Mike Rathbun
Deviation from Plumb
March 29–May 26, 2007

2005–06

Tim Lowly
At Arm’s Length
September 22–December 9, 2005 

Alec Soth
Sleeping by the Mississippi
January 19–March 16, 2006

Julie Mehretu, Ulrike Heydenreich, Ati Maier, Johaana Winter Harper
Projections and Dreams
April 6–May 28, 2006

2004–05

Jud Nelson
Seeing Sculpture
September 13–December 14, 2004

Rico Gatson
Meditations on Race and Religion
January 20–March 25, 2005

Harriet Bart
Puncia Granatum

April 7–May 27, 2005

2003–04

Bilhenry Walker
September 2–December 10, 2003

2002–03

Jesus Morales
Granite
 sculpture
January 13–February 28, 2003

Kirk Freeman
Mark/Gesture/Volume
March 11–May 24, 2003

2001–02

Luis Gonzales Palma
The language of Visibility in photographs
September 5–December 12, 2001

Susanne Stephenson
Landscape Gestures

January 11–March 8, 2002

Makoto Fujimura
March 18–May 29, 2002

2000–01

Joel Sheesley
Eve in Suburbia

September 5–December 20, 2000

Dale Johnson
Recent Work
January 8–March 12, 2001

Stewart Luckman
Recent Work
April 3–May 20, 2001 

1999–00

William Tucker
The Sleep of Reason

March 21–May 28, 2000

1998–99

Guy Baldwin
Recent Sculptures

February 27–May 24, 1998

Robert Birmelin
Among Others – The City Crowd
September 1–December 20, 1998

Betty Woodman
January 7–March 3, 1999

1994

Michael Kenna
August 25–October 17, 1994 

A Meditation and Deborah Butterfield’s Sculpture, 1994

October 20–December 14, 1994

Johnson Gallery/9th Street Entry

2022-23

50 Years of Raspberry Monday
Alumni Exhibition
September 29 - December 16 2022

2021-22

2020-21

Ashley Peifer and Laura Wennstrom
Lower Your Expectations
November 12 - December 18, 2020

2019-20

Eric William Carroll
A Lightyear of Lead
September 3 - October 20, 2019

Kenneth Steinbach
Real Time and Full Scale
November 7 - December 20, 2019

Lex Thompson
Crystal Life
March 5 - April 19, 2020

2018-19

Anthony Paul Marchetti
PAUL
August 27–October, 2018

Jessica Henderson
Uhh, u there?
November 8–December 16, 2018

Spectral Matter
Curated by Heather Nameth Bren
March 7 - April 18, 2019

2017–18

Lyz Wendland and Lisa Bergh
Imposter Syndrome
March 8–April 22, 2018

Michael Cina
ART AS DESIGN / DESIGN AS ART
November 9–December 16, 2017

Alyssa Baguss
Everything From Nowhere
August 28–October 22, 2017

2016–17

Keren Kroul
Topographies of Wonder
March 9–April 16, 2017

Michelle Westmark Wingard
The Shape of Memory
November 7–December 16, 2016

Amanda Hamilton
like this
September 12–October 23, 2016

2015–16

Kjellgren Alkire
Mount Pleasant
March 3–April 17, 2016

Kristina Estell
The Plastic: A Study of Love
November 9–December 18, 2015

Alison Owen
Impermanent Collection
September 10–October 25, 2015

2014–15

Nate Young
Rehearsals
September 15–October 26, 2014

Caroline Kent
When You're Not Looking, I'm Loving You
November 6–December 19, 2014

Jeff Wetzig
Paper Trail
March 10–April 20, 2015

2013–14

Wayne Roosa
Honest Mistakes
March 10–April 20, 2014

Senior Art Majors
Along Iron Lines
February 7–23, 2014 

Casey Nordine and Micah Tweeten
Holey and Sacred
January 24–30, 2014

Joel Willson
Family Dinner
January 17–23, 2014

Jonathon Engelien
Apocalyptic Nostalgia
January 10–16, 2014

Megan Vossler
Privatopia
November 7–December 20, 2013 

Skye Gilkerson
The Sunrise Watches the Sunset
September 5–October 27, 2013

2012–13

Lex Thompson
LU-WOW
September–December 2012

Small Press: Exhibition of Artist Books and Publications
Curated by Lex Thompson
September–December 2012

Kenneth Steinbach
Trace/Decay
February 21–March 24, 2013

2011–12

Karen Brummund, Carolyn Swiszcz
Binocular City
September 29–December 18, 2011

Jennifer Danos
Architectonic Obtrusion 3
February 8–March 25, 2012

2010–11

Margaret Wall-Romana, Jill Evans
Movement, Process, Reflection
September 30–November 21, 2010 

Bethel Faculty Exhibition
December 9, 2010–January 15, 2011

Guy Chase
Retrospective: Monochrome Plus
January 31–March 31, 2011

2009–10

Brett Kallusky, Celeste Nelms, Brian Lesteberg
Point A – Point B: Explorations of Geography and Place
September 25–November 8, 2009 

Susannah Bielak
Quake/Temblor: a Forensics of Interior Life and Natural Disaster
November 13, 2009–January 16, 2010

Rick Barlow, Regan Golden
The Sylvan Screening
February 4–March 28, 2010

Philip Potyondy
Sculptures in Stone
June 1–August 31, 2010

2008–09

Scott Stulen (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Why are you Making me so Sad?

September 5–October 25, 2008

Rebecca Wynia (Johnson Gallery)
Chihuahua: Libres Por Amor

October 17–October 31, 2008

Greg Lindquist (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Remembrance of things Present

November 7–December 13, 2008

George Robinson (Johnson Gallery)
From the Inside Out

January 5–February 14, 2009

Lynn Aldrich (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Aqueous

February 27–April 18, 2009

2007–08

Guy Chase (9th Street Entry Gallery)
New Paintings: Disappearing Blac]t

September 7–October 20, 2007

Josephine Lewis, Michelle Westmark, Aaron Young (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Merging Media

November 2–December 15, 2006

Colleen Mullins (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Elysium: Urban Canopy Loss

February 29–April 11, 2008 

2006–07

Paula McCartney, Guy Nelson, Erika Olson  (9th Street Entry Gallery)
After Nature

September 8–October 21, 2006 

Becky and Steve Lloyd, Bill Gossman, Joe Christensen (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Vessels

November 10–December 16, 2006

Wayne Roosa (Johnson Gallery)
Drawing into Thought
November 27–December 20, 2006

Lex Thompson (Johnson Gallery)
Waterways
November 27–December 20, 2006

Iraq War Memorial Proposals (9th Street Entry Gallery)
March 2–April 5, 2007

2005–06

Lori Slocomb (9th Street Entry Gallery)
The Still and the Quiet

September 2–October 16, 2005

Dan Ibarra, Michael Byzewski (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Aesthetic Apparatus: Poster Retrospective

October 28–December 16, 2005

Daniel Beers (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Water

November 19, 2004–January 7, 2005

Cheryle Melander, Heather Rae Nameth (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Shelf Life

February 23–April 8, 2006

2004–05

Cherith Lundin (Johnson Gallery)
Looking
September 21–November 4, 2004

Faculty Exhibition (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Inaugural Exhibition

October 8–November 12, 2004

Andrew MacGuffie (Johnson Gallery)
November 9, 2004–January 7, 2005 

Jill Evans, James Boyd-Brent, Monica Edwards Larson (9th Street Entry Gallery)
Unframed Prints

January 14–February 18, 2005 

Ron Leax  (Johnson Gallery)
New Laboratories
January 20–March 18, 2005

Jennifer Awes, Thomas Gokey, Emily Shristine Kaasa Hoisington, Todd Holmberg, Emily Maria Villaesenor, Michael J. Widen (9th Street Entry Gallery)
A-K Bring a Hotdish : Post Bacc

February 25–March 25, 2005

2003–04

James Quentin Young
October 6–November 12, 2003 

John Silvis
Father and Son Series, 2003
January 8–March 4, 2004

2002–03

Christine Baeumler
Biophilla

September 26–December 10, 2002

Charles Matson Lume
Intersect
January 8–March 13, 2003

2001–02 

Guy Chase
Not Flat
September 25–December 10, 2001

Jeff Wetzig & Kenneth Steinbach
January 8–March 5, 2002

2000–01

James Henkel
Four Projects
October 3–December 11, 2000

1999–00

John Bradford
Biblical Paintings
August 31–December 17, 1999 

Jaune Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

September 21–December 7, 1999

1998–99

Chris Faust
Photographing the Common

October 1–December 11, 1998 

Gabriele Ellertson
Drawings
January 6–February 24, 1999

1997–98

Jeff Wetzig
Recent Paintings

November 3–December 16, 1997

Laura Stack
Body Spaces (Paintings and Drawings)
January 13–February 26, 1998

1996–97

Daniel B. Anderson
Photographs

September 5–October 8, 1996

Dale R. Johnson and George P. Robinson
CIVA Creates the Portrait (Mixed 2-dimensional Media)

October 29–December 7, 1996

Donald Palmgren
Pastels (Drawings)

January 13–February 26, 1997

1995–96

G. E. Colpitts
Vessel Forms (Ceramics) and Winter and Summer (Paintings)

November 13–December 15, 1995 

Howardena Pindell
Mixed Media on Canvas

January 2–February 29, 1996

1994–95

James T. Larson
Paintings

August 30–October 16, 1994 

Claudia Esslinger
Stations of Desire

October 24–December 8, 1994

Ken Steinbach
Recent Work (Sculptures and Books)

January 31–March 9, 1995

1993–94

Anne-Bridget Gary
Recent Work (ceramics)

September 6–October 19, 1993 

Dale Johnson
Recent Work (Paintings)

October 26–December 9, 1993

Kate Hunt
Recent Work (Sculpture)

January 4–February 8, 1994 

Stephen Marc
The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience (Photographs)

February 15–March 23, 1994

1992–93

Dennis Lick
Works from 1972 – 1992

October 26–December 9, 1992 

Martye Allen, Cheryl and Bob Husby, Shirley Johnson, Jan Mckeachie-Johnston
A Ceramic Exhibition Featuring Functional Pottery

January 5–February 9, 1993

Faculty Exhibition
February–March 18, 1993

1991–92

Contemporary Polish Posters
September 3–October 15, 1991

1987–88

Paul Kramer
Recent Paintings

October 5–November 6, 1987

Ola Billgren, Max Book, Claes Eklundh, Jan Forsberg, Madeliene Hatz, Anita Nilsson
Swedish Currents

April 5–April 28, 1988