Harriet Bart [MN, USA] is a conceptually based mixed-media artist who creates evocative content through the narrative power of objects, the theater of installation, and the intimacy of artists books. She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work. Using bronze and stone, wood and paper, books and words, everyday and found objects, Bart's work signifies a site, marks an event, and draws attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present.
Bart's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Germany, and she has completed more than a dozen public art commissions in the United States, Japan, and Israel. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation, McKnight Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Yaddo, NEA Arts Midwest, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Since 2000, Bart has published a dozen fine-press books and won two Minnesota Book Awards. Her work is included in many museum, university, and private collections, including: Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Weisman Art Museum, Jewish Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, and Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry. Harriet Bart is a guest lecturer, curator. founding member of W.A.R.M. - a women’s collective art space, and Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts in Minneapolis, MN.
This exhibition is organized by University Museums. Support for this exhibition is provided by J.W. Fisher Endowed Arts Outreach Fund, Dana Schumacher, Marcia and Jim Borel, Phyllis and Larry Lepke, and University Museums membership. Educational support provided by the Kathy and John Howell Art Enrichment Program.
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