I was pleased to see Annika Ferber’s informative article “New exhibit at Hillstrom Museum of Art shows familiar styles” in today’s issue of The Gustavian Weekly. The Weekly’s coverage of Museum exhibitions and programs is much appreciated.

I would like to correct a small error in the article, however, in a quote attributed to me in the context of discussion of the liberal arts ideal. I’m quoted as saying “Students shouldn’t focus on only being a math or geology major. Disciplines are interconnected in real ways…” I actually included the art major in the first part of that statement, and this is important because the nature of the FOCUS IN/ON program, being discussed in that part of the article, is to connect art with other disciplines, not to privilege or separate it. As printed, the quote might suggest that I’m somehow generally faulting students in science majors, which is certainly not the case. The series of three majors I mentioned (art, math, geology) was meant as a stand-in for all the majors offered by the College, and those three were specifically mentioned because the current FOCUS IN/ON project was done in collaboration with Carolyn Pillers Dobler of the math department, while the most recent FOCUS IN/ON project was in collaboration with Jim Welsh of the geology department.

Don Myers
Director, Hillstrom Museum of Art
Instructor, Department of Art and Art History