Northern Galleries operates a total of four exhibition spaces. These spaces include the Isaac Lincoln Gallery, the President’s Gallery, the Student Center Gallery, and the Johnson Fine Arts Center Gallery. Though we do not maintain a hard and fast exhibition policy, tradition has tended to establish different roles for our various galleries. The Isaac Lincoln Gallery is usually reserved for professional artists and members of the Art Department faculty. What is typically displayed in the President’s Gallery are works by regional artists and selected pieces from our permanent collection. The Student Center Gallery is a good venue for three-dimensional pieces and works produced by students. However, professional artists with a limited number of items to show also like the Student Center Gallery. In the Johnson Fine Arts Center Gallery, one will mostly find permanent collection pieces and exhibitions that reflect a special interest or theme.

All of our galleries are open between the months of September and May. The President’s Gallery and the Student Center Gallery are the only two galleries open during the summer. Our galleries are accessible Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Depending on the building in which the gallery is housed, our galleries may be open longer (this would be typical of the President’s Gallery, the Student Center Gallery, and the Johnson Fine Arts Center Gallery).

To the left you will find link buttons that will take you to each of our four galleries. When you get to a particular gallery page, you will be given, through more link buttons, the opportunity to view other aspects of the galleries. The Exhibitions button will advance you to the year’s schedule for the gallery. The Specifications button will help you if you are interested in the dimensions of a gallery and/or a schematic. The Photographs button will give you a chance to view various pictures of our galleries.

Whether you are a casual visitor or an artist who is planning to show at Northern State University, we hope you will find these pages useful and informative.

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