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IT ALL MATTERS NOW

It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance

Exhibition curated by Kyler Lasee & Tyli Scheetz, Presented in collaboration with Fall of Freedom, St. Norbert College, Bush Art Center, Godschalx Gallery, Exhibition on View from November 3 – December 5, 2025


It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance is a student-curated exhibition exploring freedom of expression through works from St. Norbert College’s permanent collection. The exhibition examines how artists use creative expression as a means of resistance, reflection, and dialogue in moments of social and political urgency. Join us for a reception and interactive activity on November 21 at noon.

Artists in the exhibition: Kelly Armer, Brandon Bauer & Colin Matthes, Tom Diedrich, Harold E Hansen, Marion Howard, Nicolas Lampert & Paul Kjelland, Josh MacPhee, Tom Martin, Walter Nottingham, Peter Popalski, Pete Railand, Erik Ruin, Shaun Slifer

Also on view a two day exhibition of Social Media Delivers People (After Serra & Schoolman), my contemporary reinterpretation of Richard Serra’s 1970s video critiquing the power of media, in the Media Space Gallery, November 21–22.

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Imagining Human Rights

The Imagining Human Rights project was featured in the latest installment of the Behind The Arch series produced by the St. Norbert College Office of Alumni Engagement. As they state on their site:

“In this latest installment of the ‘Behind the Arch’ series, SNC professor Brandon Bauer (Art) details how students from multiple classes put the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in visual form to commemorate the historic document’s 75th anniversary.”

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Work Study Make

Poster designed by Sydney Suchy.

This exhibition features art made by the six students who currently work as gallery assistants in the Bush Art Center Galleries: Catherine Nelson, Jade Ruiz, Molly Wardius, Nikki Tranel, and Sydney Suchy.

Jackson Venski, Einstein. Oil on canvas.
Molly Wardius, Delphinium. Poster design

Working in the gallery provides the opportunity to see things from the other side of the desk, so to speak. Gallery skills include learning a myriad of ways to install art, problem-solving complex installations, writing blog posts, answering visitor questions, and many, many other miscellaneous tasks. There’s much more to gallery work than meets the eye!

This year’s staff includes students studying Art Education, Studio Art, and Graphic Design.

Jade Ruiz, Playroom. Milk paint on wood

Work Study Make is on display from October 2 through December 1 in the Godschalx Gallery.

Sydney Suchy, Dessert. Acrylic on canvas
Nikki Tranel, Cardigan. Yarn
Catherine Nelson, Self Portrait 2021. Acrylic on canvas
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2023-24 Juried Student Art Show

The annual juried exhibition of work by current St. Norbert College students is on display! All current students were able to submit work made during their time in college.

This year’s strong show features six award-winning artists, selected by juror Laura Schley, the Public Arts Coordinator for the City of Green Bay. Laura graduated from UWGB with a double major in Art and Arts Management with emphases in Painting, Textiles and Gallery and Museum Practices. Her personal artistic practice includes painting murals, sewing and mending clothes, and experimenting with fibers and natural dyes.

Congratulations to the following award winners:

  • First Place: Maddie Smith
  • Second Place: Catherine Nelson
  • Third Place: Gia Minneci
  • Honorable Mentions:
    • Emma Fry
    • Tylie
    • Samuel Satterlie

Honorable Mentions

Emma Fry, Smile. Illustration, print on paper.

Samuel Satterlie, Ghoul. Monotype print on paper

Tylie Scheetz, Orange You Glad It’s Tea Time? Clay

Tylie Scheetz, Orange You Glad It’s Tea Time? Clay

Third Place

Gia Minneci, Cavities. Monotype print on paper

Gia Minneci, Cavities. Monotype print on paper

Second Place

Catherine Nelson, Room to Grow. Relief print on paper

Catherine Nelson, Room to Grow. Relief print on paper

First Place

Maddie Smith, Behind the Scenes of An American Farmer. Photograph on paper.

Maddie Smith, Behind the Scenes of An American Farmer. Photograph on paper.

The exhibition will be on display from November 6-December 1, and the reception was on November 9th from 5-6:30 p.m.

Congratulations to all!

Poster, marketing materials, and awards cards designed by Sydney Suchy.
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Imagining Human Rights

To kick off the Imagining Human Rights series of events celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Aaron Hughes and Pablo Mendoza will deliver a virtual lecture on October 3rd at noon. Aaron Hughes & Pablo Mendoza are part of the Prison + Neighborhood Arts / Education Project (P+NAP). They will discuss their work with P+NAP and the Carving Out Rights project that engages prisoners with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and their efforts to create a culture of human rights from below.

This lecture is part of the Imagining Human Rights Programming Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, sponsored by the Cassandra Voss Center and the Art Department with additional support from the Humanities Division and the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, & Public Understanding.  

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Storied Lives: Select Works by David Graham and Terri Warpinski

Storied Lives is an exhibition of remarkable photographs, featuring portraits by David Graham from his book Land of the Free and selections from Death|s|trip by Terri Warpinski.

Terri Warpinski, Anton Walzer, October 8, 1962

Accompanying Warpinski’s photographs are laser-cut text panels, which overlay historical maps. According to Warpinski’s artist statement,

Death[s]trip is a story of human mortality written on the landscape. In looking at present day Berlin through the filter of history, these works combine contemporary photographs and text with archival elements to reveal some of the consequences of enforced political borders. From 1961-1989, 140 individuals died in failed attempts to flee over the Berlin Wall from Soviet occupied East Germany to freedom in West Berlin. Focusing on these victims, Death|s|trip probes the contingent properties of meaning, memory, and reflection in relation to both the landscape and the photographic image.

Each site was photographed on the date that coincides with the anniversary of the victim’s death, in the specific location where the event took place.

David Graham describes his work as follows:

Land of the Free is photographer David Graham’s tribute to the American people in all their idiosyncratic splendor. A tireless traveler and a natural-born visual storyteller, Graham has photographed ordinary folks in their homes, at work, and at play across the nation to assemble a composite picture of America. Graham’s colorful portraits showcase the personalities who give America its character.

David Graham, Todd Gerding as a Hessian Granadier, Richboro, PA

Storied Lives is on display now in the Baer Gallery until September 21. Graham and Warpinski are the directors and curators of NewARTSpace, a local gallery and studio just across the bridge in downtown De Pere, Wisconsin.

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Fall 2023 in the Galleries

Storied Lives: Select Works by David Graham & Terri Warpinski

Baer Gallery, August 28 – September 21

Reception: September 7, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Storied Lives features portraits by David Graham from Land of the Free and selections from Death|s|trip by Terri Warpinski.

Land of the Free is photographer David Graham’s tribute to the American people in all their idiosyncratic splendor. A tireless traveler and a natural-born visual storyteller, Graham has photographed ordinary folks in their homes, at work, and at play across the nation to assemble a composite picture of America. Graham’s colorful portraits showcase the personalities who give America its character.

Death[s]trip is a story of human mortality written on the landscape. In looking at present day Berlin through the filter of history, these works combine contemporary photographs and text with archival elements to reveal some of the consequences of enforced political borders. From 1961-1989, 140 individuals died in failed attempts to flee over the Berlin Wall from Soviet occupied East Germany to freedom in West Berlin. Focusing on these victims, Death|s|trip probes the contingent properties of meaning, memory, and reflection in relation to both the landscape and the photographic image.

Each site was photographed on the date that coincides with the anniversary of the victim’s death, in the specific location where the event took place.

April Beiswenger: Grace Me No Grace

Godschalx Gallery, August 28 – September 21

Saturdays Are For Road Trips: Photographs by Frank Juárez and Pat Ryan

Baer Gallery, October 2-October 26

Exhibition Reception: October 19, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. 

Saturdays became an excuse to get in the car to embark on random road trips throughout Wisconsin and neighboring states to explore, connect, and decompress from life’s stressors centered around covid. This photographic exhibition is a testament to their friendship, love for photography, and traveling. It highlights two distinct perspectives of turning the mundane to a thing of beauty and capturing life as it happens through the eye of the lens. 

Frank Juárez is an award-winning art educator, publisher, art coach and former gallery director. His photographs are driven by daily observations and interactions. He aims to tell a story that connects viewers’ experience, emotions, and memory. 

Pat Ryan is a photographer who attended Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in the 1970’s. He started with film cameras then transitioned to digital. His photographs are inspired by shapes, textures, and symmetry that he encounters during his travels.

Work/Study/Make

Godschalx Gallery, October 2-December 1

This exhibition features art made by students who work in the St. Norbert College Art Galleries.  

2023-24 Juried Student Art Exhibition 

Baer Gallery, November 6 – December 1

Awards Reception: Thursday, Nov. 9, 5-6:30 p.m.

The Juried Student Art Exhibition features art made by current St. Norbert College students. The works in the show are selected by the St. Norbert College Art faculty and awards are judged by an arts professional. Entry forms will be available in the Bush Art Center at the beginning of the semester.

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Art & Society Lectures Spring 2023

As a part of the ART 205: Art, Technology, & Society course at St. Norbert College, Associate Professor Brandon Bauer is hosting a lecture series supported by the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding.

The schedule is as follows:

Sky Hopinka – Thursday, March 9th at Noon

Sky Hopinka is a Native American visual artist, filmmaker, and member of the Ho-Chunk Nation who has developed new forms of cinema from the perspectives of Indigenous people. He is a MacArthur Fellow for his work offering new strategies of representation for expressing Indigenous worldviews. His work Kunįkága Remembers Red Banks, Kunįkága Remembers the Welcome Song will be on display in the Media Space Gallery from February 13 – March 31.

Jill Magid – Thursday, April 20th at Noon

Jill Magid explores emotional, philosophical, and legal tensions between individuals and institutions. She created the work Tender, evoking the connection between the human body and the body politic through the circulation of 120,000 newly minted 2020 edge-engraved pennies as a nearly invisible public artwork.

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Spring 23 in the Galleries

Stephanie Carpenter, Kinship: Belonging, 2019, Letterpress print from wood type

Stephanie Carpenter: Cultivating Community 

Baer Gallery 

January 23 -February 16

Coffee and Pastry Reception: Tuesday, February 7, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 

Stephanie Carpenter examines the way we create unique communities. She explores modularity and the use of language related to how we are connected. She earned an MFA from Indiana University and her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in Australia, Brazil, India, Italy and Japan. 

Object Matters

Godschalx Gallery 

January 23 -February 16

Explorations in clay, wood, and found objects by students in Art 224, Introduction to Sculpture. 

Speculative Futures: Visions from Caregiving Printmakers

Baer Gallery 

February 27 -March 28

Exhibition events: 

March 23, 10 a.m. Bush Art Center: Panel discussion in BAC 130 with artists Katie Ries and Carrie Scanga, and labor historian Jessica Wilkerson. Panel followed by a reception in the gallery.

Speculative Futures is a portfolio of prints that imagine the future of caregiving. All of the participating artists are caregiving printmakers. The portfolio includes an essay by labor historian Jessica Wilkerson. 

Design Localitas

Godschalx Gallery 

February 27 -March 28

Featuring designs by the St. Norbert College Student Design Center.

2023 Senior Art Exhibition

Bush Art Center 

April 11- May 4

Reception: Friday, April 21, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

The Senior Art Exhibition is the capstone experience for all St. Norbert College art majors.

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