Dittmar Gallery

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Dittmar Memorial Gallery, established in 1972, is a student-operated gallery that enlightens and challenges the Northwestern University community with the works of emerging and underrepresented artists from the Chicago area and the Midwest. The staff at Dittmar is dedicated to developing and fostering the Northwestern community’s awareness of the changing attitudes and trends in the art world. We invite artists who work in the contemporary vein, as well as artists who offer an alternative perspective that hinges on the periphery of the art world. In essence, our goal is to provide well-deserved exposure to those outside or on the margins of the mainstream art world.

Current Exhibit 

Glossolalia by Northwestern Seniors
May 10 – June 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, May 10, 6 – 8pm

Glossolalia is imagined language.  Like speaking in tongues,  the works in this exhibition engage with existing dialogues about representation by isolating, abstracting, combining, and inventing new vocabularies.  The artists vary in their choice of materials and methods in approaching the content of their work, but all have a common objective: to create their own absorbing language that is in turn perceived, read, considered, deciphered  and digested by their audience.  Glossolalia is a group exhibition of works that collectively offer a play on and questioning of interpretation.

This exhibition showcases the culminating work of this year’s senior class of ARt Theory & Practice majors at Northwestern University.  Featured artists include Madeline Amos, Kyle Frost, Audrey Haque, Jason Pan, Andrew Paulson, Harrison Shih, Laura Shultz, Judy Suh, Alaya Turnbough, Wendy You, and Crystal Zhang.

2012 – 2013 Dittmar Gallery Exhibits

Fall Quarter:

  • 9/20-10/5: FACES OF NU: Class of 2016
  • 10/8-28: Norris University Center 40th Anniversary Exhibit
  • 11/2-12/9: WALL OF MEMORIES: LAS DESAPARECIDAS DE CIUDAD JUAREZ by Diane Kahlo

Winter Quarter:

  • 1/10: Dinner with Artist Robert Guinan One Book One Northwestern
  • 1/18-2/17: CULTURAL COLLAGE by Ning-Chiao Hsu, Lanre Buraimoh, & Annette Jackson
  • 2/21-3/22: ANIMAL/ARTIFACT Maria Lux & David Harper

Spring Quarter:

  • 4/1-5/5: PLASTIC WORLD by Mary Croteau
  • 5/10-6/13: Glossolalia – NORTHWESTERN STUDENT SHOW
  • 6/28-8/11:MOVING SPECTACLES by Liese Ricketts
  • 8/1-30: SUMMER COMMUNITY ART SHOW