The Performing and Visual Arts at St. Olaf

Music. Theatre. Dance. the Visual Arts. From the world renowned St. Olaf Christmas Festival to exhibits by visiting and campus artists to innovative theatre productions and dance performances, St. Olaf offers a vibrant arts showcase, providing outstanding cultural offerings throughout the academic year. Whether appreciated live or via web streaming, there is a wealth of talent and creativity to enjoy.

What's New

Alumni couple donates collection to Flaten Art Museum
Eugene '52 and Margaret Froiland Skibbe '53 are donating their collection of 180 prints by Japanese artist Yoshida Hodaka to St. Olaf's Flaten Art Museum. "St. Olaf has . . . become an excellent repository for the fine arts," says Eugene Skibbe. "We hope that Hodaka will enhance that." A show that will include donated items opens February 17.


Shows celebrates with Shostakovich
Instructor in Music Ray Shows (violin and viola) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his ensemble, the Artaria String Quartet. "We're just taking care of chamber music to pass it on to the next generation," Shows told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Annalee Wolf '89 also plays in the quartet.


Theater students 'light up' during Interim
While many St. Olaf students went to their Interim class expecting to take notes, Kate Fridley '14 showed up to her Interim class each day without a notebook, ready to put up stage lights and play her clarinet. She was one of 17 students in the advanced Producing Theater Interim course that merged musical and theatrical projects into an academic setting.