About Us
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STAFF | |
| Louise Lincoln | Director | |
| Email: llincoln@depaul.edu | |
| Laura Fatemi | Assistant Director | |
| Email: lfatemi@depaul.edu | |
| Chris Mack | Assistant Curator | |
| Email: cmack1@depaul.edu | |
MISSION STATEMENT | |
| The DePaul University Art Museum extends the institution’s commitments to excellence, diversity and social concerns through innovative exhibitions, programs, and events that analyze the variety and depth of artistic expression. The Museum acquires, preserves and displays the University’s diverse and growing collection of works of art. Its exhibitions, programs and collections engage the wide expertise represented in the University’s community of knowledge, giving visible and accessible form to the intellectual and creative work of faculty and students through collaborative exploration of cultural production. For the DePaul community and for wider audiences the gallery serves as a laboratory for the exploration of innovative approaches to art and culture. | |
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS | |
| Like many universities, DePaul began its art collection without a conscious plan. Its first acquisitions may have been a celebrated stained glass window early in the twentieth century, and other gifts followed over time. It was not until the 1970s that the university, with the energetic assistance of the Women’s Board, began to collect art in a more systematic fashion. Yet as it enters its second century the university holds a distinctive and historically significant collection, one that well reflects DePaul’s tradition and its future. Strong in mid-twentieth-century painters in the Midwest, the gallery’s collection also holds distinguished modern photographs as well as Old Master paintings and prints. As the collection grows and broadens, it increasingly becomes a resource for the study and display within the university and in the wider community. A changing selection of the university’s permanent collections is on view throughout the year. | |
INFORMATION ABOUT US | |
From its founding in 1898 DePaul University has focused on its urban setting and the importance of providing higher education to underserved populations. For many years its students were largely drawn from the Chicago area, but in the past decade enrollment has increased dramatically and now two-thirds of entering students are not residents of the city. The university’s commitment to the city and to urban issues has only increased; numerous academic initiatives focus on Chicago, particularly on addressing issues of social justice. All entering undergraduate students participate in courses related to the city and its neighborhoods (the Discover Chicago program), and many students and staff are involved in programs that focus their work directly on aspects of urban life (Community-Based Service Learning). The DePaul University Art Museum is a 4,000-square-foot facility on the university’s Lincoln Park campus. Staffed by museum professionals, it serves as a focal point for teaching and discussion through visual arts and material culture. It supports the educational mission of the university through its collections, exhibitions, programs, and events, which allow both students and members of the wider community to explore broadly the visual representation of ideas over time and space. Its collections and programs are diverse, but strongly represent art of the Chicago area. Many of its projects are historical or thematic in focus, but the gallery has a commitment to showing contemporary art as a means of exploring aspects of our own culture. |
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EXHIBITIONS | |
| DePaul Art Museum | |
| The Museum offers a wide variety of special exhibitions in all media throughout the year, from thematic and historical exhibitions to works by contemporary artists. Recent presentations include paintings, sculpture, printmaking and installation by contemporary Iraqi artists; early twentieth-century photographs by Eugene Atget and Berenice Abbott, and Old Master prints by such artists as Dürer, Cranach, Rembrandt and Goya. Lectures, concerts, and special events provide additional perspectives. | |
POLICIES AND FORMS | |
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