The following exhibition-related events will be open to the SNC community. Important Note: you need to be logged into your SNC account to access the Zoom meeting.
Artist’s Talk: Illustrating Nature with Rebecca Jabs Time: Feb 23, 2021 12:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada). This event is one hour long.
As a part of the ART 205: Art, Technology, & Society course at St. Norbert College, Associate Professor Brandon Bauer is hosting a lecture series that was supported by the Faculty Mini-Grant Program through the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding.
The schedule is as follows:
Thursday, February 18th @ Noon – Mark Tribe
Mark Tribe is a New York-based artist and Graduate Programs Chair at the School of the Visual Arts in New York. His drawings, performances, installations, and photographs often deal with social and political issues. His recent work explores the relationship between landscape and technology. He is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006).
Constance Hockaday is a Chilean American artist whose work explores issues of public space, political voice, and belonging. Hockaday holds both an MFA in Socially Engaged Art and a Masters in Conflict Resolution. She is a TED Fellow and an artist in residence at UCLA. She has received support from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Map Fund, SF MOMA, Rainin Foundation, and Headland’s Center for the Arts.
Jackie Sumell is a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose work interrogates the abuses of the American criminal justice system. She is best known for her collaborative project with the late Herman Wallace, one of the former Angola 3 prisoners, entitled The House That Herman Built. This project is the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary film Herman’s House. Sumell is a 2013 Open Society Soros Justice Fellow, a 2015 Nathan Cummings Foundation Recipient, a 2015 Eyebeam Project Fellow, and a 2016 Robert Rauchenberg Artist as Activist Fellow.
Jonas Lund is a Swedish conceptual artist whose work critically reflects on contemporary networked systems and power structures. Lund’s artistic practice involves creating systems and setting up parameters that oftentimes require engagement from the viewer. This results in game-like artworks where tasks are executed according to algorithms or a set of rules. Through his works, Lund investigates the issues generated by the increasing digitalization of contemporary society like authorship, participation, and authority.
Claudia X. Valdes a conceptual visual artist and educator who explores the themes of trauma, memory, perception, and embodiment in her work. Major subjects within her works have been the history of U.S. nuclear arms, physical trauma, violent conflict, and positing art as a means to both catalyze and frame social spaces for meaningful discourse and to evoke reflection upon the ethics of human decision-making and actions and their impact on individual and collective life.
Rebecca Jabs illustrations center on the intersection between art, science, and education. By observing and recording nature through art, we gain a greater understanding of the world and our place within it. This exhibit features works portraying notable species from Wisconsin’s native flora and fauna. Selected illustrations from an upcoming book written by Wisconsin Naturalist John Bates will be on view.
The following exhibition-related events will be open to the SNC community. Zoom links will be posted here one week prior to the events. You need to be logged into your SNC account to access the Zoom meeting.
Artist’s Talk: Illustrating Nature with Rebecca Jabs
Tuesday, February 23, 12:30 – 1:30 PM, via zoom (link will be posted closer to the event)
Workshop with the Artist
Thursday, February 25, 10:15 – 11:15 AM, via zoom (link will be posted closer to the event)
“Light doth beguile the shining dark.”
Godschalx Gallery, February 1-March 12
Featuring objects that glow by sisters April Beiswenger, Gina Williams, and Dr. Lisa Beiswenger
Have you heard about @wideawakeswi? They are building a coalition of artists in Wisconsin to help make sure everyone knows how and takes advantage of early voting! Join their call to action on October 3!
Wide Awakes 2020 is an artist founded initiative that is national in scope and is building a coalition of civically-minded artists all across the country! The historic Wide Awakes were a pro-emancipation, pro-women’s suffrage, pro-immigration, youth-led organization that championed Abraham Lincoln during the 1860 presidential election. They coordinated voter registration drives and engaged new and young voters to participate in democracy. In 2020 a group of artists around the country are carrying on this action. As an offshoot of the For Freedoms project the Wide Awakes aspire to center the arts in political and civic discourse, interjecting joy, play, and imagination into our social, political, and cultural scene.
Mindful of the constraints of time and of the pandemic the organizers are planning a nimble day of action to celebrate the start of early voting in Wisconsin, Tuesday, October 20. They envision distributed celebrations around the state. Whether you are already engaged in voter organizing and would like to partner and promote your action under #wideawakes2020 #wideawakeswi on that day or if you are an artist interested in participating in any of the civic celebrations Wide Awakes is planning, they would love to hear from you and work with you.
Below is more information about Wide Awakes Wisconsin and an invitation to join a Zoom call to action this Saturday, October 3 on the 160th anniversary of the 1860 Wide Awakes March in the name of Emancipation.
Please pass this call on to anyone you think would be interested.
Join Wide Awakes On OCTOBER 3 at 10 am for a Wide Awake WI call to action!
Tuesday, September 8th – Center for Creative Citizenship – The Maryland Institute College of Art’s Center for Creative Citizenship integrates civic learning and action, as well as democratic engagement, by engaging art and design students in projects relating to civic engagement, voter education, and get out the vote efforts, as well as supporting the development of partnerships, programs, and initiatives that advance the interests of Baltimore’s communities and neighborhoods.
Tuesday, September 29th – Amanda Lovelee – Amanda Lovelee is a visual artist based in Minnesota. Lovelee has focused on civic engagement through a variety of projects. She worked as a “City Artist” through the Public Art St. Paul program developing projects that made city planning more accessible to city residents.
Tuesday, November 10th – Girl Child Art Foundation – The Girl Child Art Foundation is an organization based in Lagos Nigeria that focuses on advocacy, empowerment, and civic engagement of girls through the arts.
Tuesday, November 17th – Laurie Jo Reynolds – Laurie Jo Reynolds is an artist, policy advocate, and researcher who developed the concept of “Legislative Art”, an art practice that seeks to intervene in government systems with the goal of concrete political change.
Jeff and Wendy of Plantbot Genetics are on campus for The Moth Project artist residency. In addition to creating moth garden installations throughout Brown County this month, they will exhibit Plantbot Genetics: Mothology in the Baer Gallery August 31-September 25, 2015. We began unpacking some of the work for the exhibition this week.
Packing art is an art in and of itself. Layers of boxes nest inside each crate and each box holds its own carefully packed set of objects. It’s always fun to unpack the boxes and get that first view of the art. I photograph crates and boxes in various stages of unpacking and use the pictures as a guide for repacking the objects at the end of the show. The above photos provide a glimpse of a few of the plantbots and some wonderful drawings that will be part of the exhibition.
Mark your calendars for the following exhibited related events:
Friday, Sept. 18, Artist Talk, 4-5 p.m. and Gallery Reception, 5-6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 19 SNC Day -The galleries will be open from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Making activities include Make a Moth and Design a Plantbot. Plantbot Genetics duo, Wendy DesChene and Jeff Schmuki, will also be in the gallery to answer questions about their work, The Moth Project residency, and the exhibition from 10-11 a.m and 2-3 p.m.
