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 24th at noon – Kite (aka Suzanne Kite) Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer, a PhD candidate at Concordia University, Research Assistant for the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, a 2019 Trudeau Scholar, and a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow. Her research is concerned with contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance practice. Website: http://kitekitekitekite.com/
Thursday, March 10th at noon – Paolo Cirio Paolo Cirio is an Italian conceptual artist, hacktivist, and cultural critic currently living in New York. Cirio’s work embodies hacker ethics, such as open access, privacy policies, and the critique of economic, legal, and political models. He shows his research and intervention-based works through artifacts, photos, installations, videos, and public art. He exhibits internationally and has won several prestigious awards, grants, commissions, and fellowships. Website: https://www.paolocirio.net/
As a part of the ART 285: Art in a Democratic 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:
Tuesday, September 13th – Aram Han Sifuentes
Aram Han Sifuentes is a fiber and social practice artist who works to claim spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities. Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing techniques, to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest.
Tuesday, October 5th – U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
Founded in 2013 The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) is a “people-powered department” (not a federal agency) committed to supporting individuals and organizations in mobilizing creativity in the service of justice. While social issues may be grounded in politics and economics, the USDAC believes that to change the world we need to change the story. Images, language, and attitudes affect our ability to understand and act on the challenges we face as a society.
Tuesday, November 16th – Valeria Mogilevich
Valeria is a designer and educator working at the intersection of education, design, and community engagement. She specializes in demystifying policy, authentic engagement strategies, collaboration, experiential education, and working with immigrant communities. Valeria has collaborated on visual “explainers”, curricula, community engagement strategies, and public artworks with grassroots organizations, government agencies, and cultural institutions.
Tuesday, November 23rd – Matthijs de Bruijne
Matthijs de Bruijne’s practice is a result of direct political involvement. In recent years it has taken the form of collaboration with trade unions and other labor organizations. In 2010 he was invited by the Dutch Union of Cleaners to work as an artist helping this worker’s led organization to visualize their messages in a clear manner and by creating a recognizable identity for this union in the Netherlands. Since 2020 he has been creating the archive of this union which will be gifted to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Join us for an artist talk with cartoonist and illustrator Aaron Renier. The talk will be via zoom. See the information at the bottom of this post to join the call.
Aaron Renier is the author of three graphic novels for younger readers; Spiral-Bound, Walker Bean, and Walker Bean and the Knights of the Waxing Moon. He is the recipient of the Eisner award in 2006 for talent deserving of wider recognition, and was an inaugural resident for the Sendak Fellowship in 2010. He also illustrates children’s books, most notably for the authors Dave Eggers (The Lifters, 2018) and Daniel Pinkwater (Vampires of Blinsh, and Adventures of a Dwergish Girl, both 2020).
You must have an @snc.edu email address to join this talk.
Rebecca Jabs is an artist and freelance scientific illustrator based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She began her professional career as a K-12 Art Teacher in Manitowoc before graduating in 2016 from the Science Illustration Graduate Program at California State University at Monterey Bay. She has had her work displayed in a variety of exhibitions including Illustrating Nature, her most recent solo exhibition. Illustrating Nature, on display in the Baer Gallery at St. Norbert College through March 12, 2021, features a collection of watercolor, gouache, and ink pieces which illustrate some of the flora and fauna of Wisconsin. Jabs explained that her journey as a naturalist was a recent one and stated that, “When we grow up in a place, we become so accustomed to it that we aren’t as amazed by it as we probably should be,” when speaking about her love of wildlife and nature in Wisconsin. Her favorite birds native to Wisconsin are the Caspian Tern and the American White Pelican; which she illustrated in her gouache and watercolor painting, American White Pelican, 2017. Many of her paintings in the exhibition in the Baer Gallery illustrate flower species in Wisconsin as well. Although Jabs was never really interested in illustrating botany originally, she has found a love for the shapes and how she could piece the plants together in a composition commenting on how she is, “very drawn to geometry and pattern in my artwork.” In fact, Monarda punctata is one of her favorite flowers and she used this plant to study flowers when she painted Monarda Puctata & Bombus spp., 2020. The project that Jabs is working on currently is a collaboration with Wisconsin naturalist, John Bates. He is working on a book about the last undeveloped lakes of Wisconsin, and Jabs is illustrating plant and animal species found in those habitats; some of which are included in her Illustrating Nature exhibition such as four watercolor paintings of turtle species. Jabs’ work for Illustrating Nature beautifully illustrates Wisconsin wildlife in a variety of ways; from scientific illustrations for research to personal projects which celebrate the amazing plants and animals found in the state.
American White Pelican, 2017, Watercolor and gouache American White Pelicans are present in increasing numbers in Wisconsin during the summer months. Birds of breeding age develop a nuptial tubercle, a ridge on the top of the bill, that falls off after breeding season, American White Pelicans often feed cooperatively in groups, forming a semi-circle to drive and concentrate fish within the shallows.
Monarda Puctata & Bombus spp., 2020, Watercolor Monarda punctata, commonly known as Spotted Beebalm or Horsemint, can be found growing in sandy soil in Wisconsin. It is pollinated by a wide variety of insects including the many bumblebee species native to Wisconsin. Bombus species pictured: Tri-Colored, Rusty-Patched, Common Eastern, Brown-Belted, and Yellow-Banded Bumblebee.
Painted Turtle, 2020, Watercolor This illustration is part of a current project with Wisconsin naturalist John Bates, to be included in his upcoming book on the last wild lakes of northern Wisconsin.
Astral Mirror, 2019, Ink on scratchboard Observing the Common Loon at such a close range, white spots appear brilliant against the dense, absorbent black of its back. On such an encounter, I imagined the stars of the northern night sky woven into its wings.
Greater Prairie-Chicken, 2019, Watercolor and gold leaf The Greater Prairie-Chicken nearly disappeared from the Wisconsin landscape by the mid 20th century due to the loss of its native prairie habitat. The management program at the Buena Vista Grasslands, pioneered by the research of Frances and Fred Hamerstrom, sustains today’s population of this bird in our state. Each April, male prairie chickens gather at dawn on booming grounds. Their display includes drumming feet and the inflating of air sacs on the side of their throats. the scientific name, Tympanuchus cupido, aptly translates to “drummer of love.”
Crystal Bog, 2018, Gouache This painting was created for the Drawing Water artist-in-residence program at the UW-Madison Trout Lake Research Station near Boulder Junction, WI. Crystal Bog is one of the seven Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites at the Research Station. The acidic, low-nutrient conditions in a bog limit the plant life existing within the characteristic mats of Sphagnum Moss. Plants found at Crystal Bog include Leatherleaf, Bog Rosemary, Bog Laurel, Pitcher Plant, Roundleaf Sundew, Small Cranberry, and Labrador Tea.
This month in the Bush Art Center’s Godshalx Gallery, you control what you see: sisters April Beiswenger, Gina Williams, and Dr. Lisa Beiswenger’s exhibit features objects that glow and shine––but only if you tell them to.
Their show, which is visible through March 12, casts the gallery in darkness. Quiet and unsuspecting though the room may seem, once you step inside, you may notice that it appears to glow. Each piece incorporates reflective and glow-in-the-dark surfaces which pass around what little light is available from the small strip of LED guides trailing near the walls of the galleries. This alone is a curiosity, but switch on the flashlight supplied at the gallery’s entrance, and the show comes to life.
Wherever you point the flashlight beam, an artwork will return an opalescent glow. Patterns jump to life, a long and trailing mobile appears to move with the light, casting dappled shadows around the gallery. The pieces offer themselves to the imagination, and the shadowed room feels like a little world of its own.
April Beiswenger is an Associate Professor of Theatre and a Scenographer here at St. Norbert College. Her previous shows in the Bush Art Center Galleries include The Making and Giving Project from August and September 2018. Light Doth Beguile the Shining Dark was created in collaboration with her sisters Gina Williams and Dr. Lisa Beiswenger.
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.
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.
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.
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
Image: Rebecca Jabs, Painted Turtle, 2020, Watercolor on paper
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. 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.
“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
