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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Weinberg senior Ellie Lyons is one of two student curators for the Dittmar Gallery. She helps organize Dittmar’s community show each year, which features work from community members.

Dittmar student curators bring ‘risk-taking’ perspective to gallery

October 29, 2023

Among clerical work, research positions and front-desk jobs, curatorship has been a part-time work option for students for more than 20 years at Norris University Center’s Dittmar Gallery. Norris...

Room with white walls decorated with paintings. Two pillars in the middle with artwork on top.

Dittmar’s newest exhibit ‘When Homeward You Turn’ highlights a variety of artistic media exploring notions of home

April 6, 2023

Dittmar Gallery’s latest exhibition, “When Homeward You Turn,” explores people’s unique relationships to the abstract concept of home.  “I feel a lot of college students, university students...

The photo showcases Dittmar Gallery’s new exhibit “Wordless Creatures”. Most of the work for the exhibit is included in the photo, including Matthew Cortez’s “A Weak Connection to the Former Self” on the left side of the image and Madison Gondreau’s “Reflections” on the right.

Dittmar Gallery’s “Wordless Creatures” allows artists to represent their identities through objects

April 6, 2022

A plastic lobster strapped to a pillow; a strip of clay bacon on a shattered plate; the remains of a Vietnamese Daily Calendar — these are just some of the 28 works of art featured in Dittmar Gallery’s...

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