Join us today/Thursday, March 4th to hear from illustrator and podcast host, Lauren Lowen, as she talks about surface design, licensing work, and how she got to be where she is.
Artist talk with Illustrator Lauren Lowen
Illustrator Rebecca Jabs, Artist Talk and Workshop Events
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.
Topic: Workshop with artist Rebecca Jabs
Time: Feb 25, 2021 10:15 AM Central Time (US and Canada). This event is one hour long.
Art, Technology, & Society Lecture Series (SP2021)
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).
Thursday, March 11th @ Noon – Constance Hockaday
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.
Thursday, March 25th @ Noon – jackie sumell
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.
Tuesday, April 6th @ Noon – Jonas Lund
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.
Thursday, April 22 @ Noon – Claudia X. Valdes
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.
Thank you to Neale Tracy for the poster!
Currently in the Galleries, Exhibitions and Events
Rebecca Jabs: Illustrating Nature
Baer Gallery, February 1-March 12
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
2020-21 Juried Student Art Exhibition Awards!
Watch the St. Norbert College art faculty announce the 2020-21 award winners! Awards are:
Three Honorable Mentions, $50 each
Third Place, $75
Second Place, $100
First Place $150
Many thanks to our judge, Nick Patton, who is a senior graphic designer at St. Norbert College and a 2003 alum. He designed the college’s SNC monogram, the Green Knight identity, and the admission marketing materials. He is the creator and host of the Picturebooking Podcast and has published over 150 podcast episodes and two picture books.
Awards announcers are Debbie Kupinsky, Brandon Bauer, Shan Bryan-Hanson, Fr. James Neilson, Brian Pirman, and Katie Ries. Special thanks to Brandon Bauer for filming this video.
Award winners watch for an email from Shan Bryan-Hanson with more information about your award.
Congratulations to the award winners and all the artists who had work selected for the 2020-21 show!
Wide Awakes Wisconsin!
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!
Wide Awakes Links:
Art in a Democratic Society Lecture Series (FA2020)
As a part of the ART 285: Art in a Democratic Society course at St. Norbert College, I am 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:
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.
Thank you to Neale Tracy for the poster!
Fall 2020 Exhibition Schedule
2020 Senior Art Exhibition Invitational
August 24 -October 2
Senior art majors from the class of 2020 were invited to participate in this postponed Senior Art Exhibition (the show last spring was cancelled due to Covid-19). The art and design on exhibition was created in their final year at St. Norbert College.
Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
October 12-Nov. 20
This exhibition features work by current St. Norbert College students.
Hours of Operation (during exhibitions):
The Galleries will be open, with reduced hours, to the campus community beginning August 24. We are sorry that we cannot be open to the general public at this time. We will post new hours as soon as that changes. Learn more about SNC’s response to Covid-19 here.
Gallery hours (for campus only) beginning August 24, 2020:
Monday: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Tuesday: 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Spring 2020 Exhibitions
Fragments of the Acceleration–A Project by Brandon Bauer
Jan. 27 – Feb. 21, Baer and Godschalx Galleries
This exhibition explores the atomic origins of what has been referred to as the Great Acceleration of the Anthropocene and the urgency of the climate crisis. The work was created during the artist’s 2019 sabbatical.
Related events:
Consensus, Civility, and Polarization in the Climate Change Debate, Thursday, Feb. 6, 5-6 p.m., Bush Art Center 130
The 2019-20 Killeen Fellows, Brandon Bauer, Angel Saavedra Cisneros, & Wendy Scattergood, offer a presentation addressing this year’s Killeen Lecture theme “Must We Speak? Civic Responsibility in Times of Polarization”. The presentation will address the scientific consensus, civility, and political polarization in the debates about climate change.
Reception to follow the panel discussion, Feb. 6, 6-7:30 p.m., Bush Art Center Galleries
Negotiating Space: Recent paintings by Ginnie Cappaert and Marjorie Mau
March 2 – April 1, Baer Gallery
Reception: Friday, Feb. 28, 5-7 p.m.
Featuring recent paintings by Wisconsin artists Ginnie Cappaert and Marjorie Mau. Both artists employ the use of cold wax as they explore abstraction and landscape in their paintings.
(Re)Fashioned
March 2- April 1, Godschalx Gallery
This exhibition explores solutions to the fast fashion crisis, as envisioned by the students participating in (Re)Fashion, an Honors Tutorial.
Senior Art Exhibition
April 14 – May 8, Bush Art Center Galleries
Reception, Friday, April 17, 5-7 p.m.
The Senior Art Exhibition is the capstone experience for all St. Norbert College art majors.
Enter the 2019 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition!
All current SNC students are invited to enter the 2019-20 Juried Student Art Exhibition. The deadline for entries is October 7, 2019. Please see the entry form below for further information. Best of luck!
Click here to download and print the entry form: Juried Student Show Entry Form 2019
