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.”
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.
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.
Work Study Make is on display from October 2 through December 1 in the Godschalx Gallery.
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:
Emma Fry, Smile. Illustration, print on paper.
Samuel Satterlie, Ghoul. Monotype print on paper
Tylie Scheetz, Orange You Glad It’s Tea Time? Clay
Gia Minneci, Cavities. Monotype print on paper
Catherine Nelson, Room to Grow. Relief print 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The annual juried exhibition of work by current St. Norbert College students is on display! The juried show is open to all current students. This year’s jurors are David Graham and Terri Warpinski, professional artists and curators of NEWArtSpace, a gallery and studio space in downtown De Pere.
This year’s award winners with the jurors. From left to right: David Graham, Sydney Suchy, Logan Elkin, Catherine Nelson, Emma Fry, Emily Friday, Jackson Venski, Terri Warpinski.
This year’s winners were selected based on the quality of the entire body of work featured in the show, rather than a specific piece. Congratulations to all!
According to exhibition curator Brandon Bauer, “this exhibition brings together works by Aram Han Sifuentes that focus on democracy, citizenship, and political participation. The works in this exhibition manifest the notion of democracy as a contested space in which one can gain a political voice through citizenship, protest, or giving voice to those excluded politically.” It includes handmade protest banners, an Official Unofficial Voting Station, and a banner lending library.
A central feature of the exhibition is a wall of handmade protest banners. Sifuentes hosts workshops to teach sewing skills and banner-making techniques, passing on a traditional, intergenerational skills while drawing communities into conversation about protest and demonstration. Some banners were created by Sifuentes or during previous lending libraries, but a collection of banners made by campus community members are available to be checked out. Next to the poster is an instructional video on how to create a fabric banner with felt letters. A banner making workshop, with instruction by Moki Tantoco, will be taking place at noon on Thursday, October 20 at noon in the Mulva Library.
The Official Unofficial Voting Station is a symbolic voting station open to all. In addition to creating opportunities for anyone to cast a vote, stations bring together communities for conversation, protest, and celebration. Sifuentes, as a noncitizen immigrant, created the program in response to her inability to vote. The first iteration, prior to the 2016 election, included 25 collaborative activations of the station through performances and installations. The project was reiterated during the 2020 elections, with 50 voting station kits sent across the nation. A voting station is housed online, along with a developing archive of responses and vote tallies.
At the Bush Art Center’s Official Unofficial Voting Station, gallery visitors can fill out a freeform kind of ballot, sharing the reasons that they vote, as well as listing local, national, and global issues they’d like to vote on. The Official Unofficial Voting Station, a station for all people and for all issues, creates conversation around who can vote, and what issues visitors most want brought to the ballot. The anonymous ballot responses will be recorded and archived.
The exhibition will be on display between October 3 and October 27, with a reception from 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m., on Thursday, Oct. 20.
