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The Hoedeman Gallery of Sacred Art

The Hoedeman Gallery of Sacred Art is proudly supported by the Office for Mission at the University of St. Thomas. We offer moments of encounter that engage our students, faculty, staff, and the broader Twin Cities community through visual art that expresses the transcendentals of truth, beauty, and goodness.
We feature three exhibitions per year (fall, spring, summer) that highlight artists who represent various styles, expressions, and artistic mediums. Located in the Iverson Center for Faith, we invite you to tour our gallery seven days a week from 7:00am - 10:00pm. Admission is free, and all tours are self-guided.
The beautiful does not merely entertain; rather, it invades, chooses, and changes the one to whom is deigns to appear. It opens the mind to a consideration of ever higher forms of the beautiful, conducing finally to the transcendent source of beauty itself.
-Bishop Robert Barron

Call for Art Exhibitions

We welcome proposals to exhibit sacred art in our gallery. See the bottom of the page for proposal guidelines. Contact Jacob Benda with any questions:

Dr. Jacob Benda
Director of Music, Liturgy and Sacred Arts
jrbenda@stthomas.edu
(651) 962-6570

Tupa Gallery

Temporary Installation

Expressing Spirituality Through Art

Fr. Tupa's art celebrates his relationship with the world, and with God. His paintings are an invitation to partake of and share in his balanced wholeness. Tupa is a seeker, whose art is spiritually inspired-and spirtually inspiring. While the subjects of his paintings are rich in tradition, his art is decidedly modern and bodly original.

Father Dease Crucifix Collection On Display

Divinity By the Hand of Humanity

This exhibition highlights a selection of objects from the Father Dease Crucifix Collection, part of the University of St. Thomas Art Collection. The crucifixes on display were gifts to Father Dease while he was the university’s fourteenth president (1991-2013).
Icon Of St. Thomas Aquinas

Permanent Installation

Icon of Holy Thomas, Angelic Doctor

In 2012, Campus Ministry commissioned Nicholas Markell ’84 to write an icon of St. Thomas Aquinas, the university’s patron saint, called “Holy Thomas” in the tradition of Eastern iconography.