Warhol meets...
January 15, 2010
Swedish Cows: Slow Art, An Audiovisual Journey in Stillness, opened January 15 at the Swedish American Museum, Chicago. READ MORE »
Capturing the Nordic Spirit.
September 20, 2009
Graphic and textile designer Laurie Jacobi, along with production artist Mary Jane Miller, exhibited 100-percent-wool clothing, blankets, and rugs at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. READ MORE »
Roundtrip: New York – Gotland.
July 02, 2009
If you're in the Chicagoland area, don't miss Peter Åström‟s Roundtrip: New York – Gotland, an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and photographs, which will be on display from June 19 through Sept.13 in the Swedish American Museum‟s gallery. READ MORE »
Faith, Sustainability and Lindsborg.
March 18, 2009
Jimmy Sjöblom, Bethany College’s 2009 Pearson Distinguished Professor of Swedish Studies, will give his first two public addresses. He will first speak on “More than Bread" on April 1, then on April 2 on “Lindsborg in the Eyes of the World.” READ MORE »
Scandinavian retreat in Wisconsin:
January 25, 2009
Featuring presentations on “The Two Olafs” the 36th annual Scandinavian Retreat is scheduled for February 13 – 15 at the Beaver Creek Reserve in Falls Creek, Wisconsin. READ MORE »
Consul carries voice of automakers.
January 16, 2009
The Swedish government will not take stakes in either Saab or Volvo from General Motors or Ford, nor does it plan more aid for either Swedish automaker, a senior official said Jan. 15 at the Detroit Auto Show. “They (GM and Ford) have to take the full responsibility for the actions that have to be taken to secure good futures for the brands of Saab and Volvo.” READ MORE »
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Colors of Nature: Oils and Watercolors
January 08, 2009
Friday, January 16, an exhibit of Swedish american artist Siv Lindgren paintings opens at SAMAC in Chicago. A combination of oil and watercolor landscapes of all four seasons in Sweden and America will be on display along with still-life's. READ MORE »
Roots run deep in Minnesota
December 08, 2008
The American Swedish Institute, ASI, of the new century READ MORE »
Scandinavian art gallery
November 25, 2008
Sometimes art can imitate life – and so can art galleries. Jim Davidson learned just how much an art gallery can not only imitate but stimulate life when he opened the Water and Oil Gallery in the historic Swede Hollow neighborhood of St. Paul, Minn. READ MORE »
Creator, founder, visionary
October 14, 2008
Kerstin Lane, Chicago, first and founding Executive Director of The Swedish American Museum Center on the early days of the museum. READ MORE »
The Swedish American Museum in Chicago.
September 10, 2008
In 1976 Kurt Mathiasson founded a small museum in a storefront log cabin, in which family histories were collected. A decade later the Swedish American Museum Center opened READ MORE »
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