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.
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.
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.
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.
A Call to Halt is an installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987. The installation includes a reenactment of the 1982 Nuclear Freeze Referenda, in which Wisconsin was the first in the nation to put international nuclear disarmament policy to a popular vote.
Th exhibit includes a timeline of important events during the crisis as a series of archival images and captions superimposed with stenciled spray paint. Cultural, political and activist events are referenced, telling a story of collective public outcry and the power of ordinary people.
Visitors can use provided ballots and reenact Wisconsin’s nuclear disarmament referendum. The reenactment is both a reminder of the power of democracy and an opportunity for viewers to become active participants.
A Call to Halt will be on display from September 26 to October 27 in the Permanent Collection Gallery.
Baer Gallery: October 3 – October 27, 2022 Exhibition Reception – October 20
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. Sifuentes’s work investigates identity politics, immigration, citizenship and belonging, dissent and protest, and racial politics in the United States today.
A Call To Halt by Brandon Bauer
Permanent Collection Gallery: September 26 – October 27, 2022
A Call To Halt is an installation and critical timeline of the Euromissiles Crisis, and the nuclear abolition movement in the United States from 1977-1987. The installation includes a reenactment of the 1982 Nuclear Freeze Referenda, in which Wisconsin was the first in the nation to put international nuclear disarmament policy to a popular vote.
Angry Sandwich People or in Praise of Dialectics by Chto Delat?
Media Space Gallery: August 29 – October 27, 2022
In this piece, the Russian art collective Chto Delat? (What is to be done?) imagines protest as a form of theatrical happening in urban space by bringing to life Bertolt Brecht’s poem “In Praise of Dialectics”. The action was carried out in close collaboration with two local activist groups, Worker’s Democracy and The Pyotr Alexeev Resistance Movement at Stachek Square, an important historic site where in 1905 striking workers marched on the Winter Palace.
Art & Society Lectures and Events
September 6 – Aram Han Sifuentes Virtual lecture (Zoom) @ Noon
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. This lecture is associated with her exhibition in the Bush Art Center Galleries.
September 13 – Dmitry Vilensky Virtual lecture (Zoom) @ Noon
Dmitry Vilensky is an artist, writer, and founding member of the Russian art collective Chto Delat? (What is to be done?), a platform initiated in 2003 by a collective of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers with the goal of merging political theory, art, and activism.
September 22 – U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) Virtual lecture (Zoom) @ Noon
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.
September 28 – Center for Artistic Activism lecture (BAC 130) 1:10 – 2:10 pm
The Center for Artistic Activism has helped to build, sustain, and develop the field of artistic activism since its inception in 2009 through innovative research and by providing free resources and training to artists and organizations around the world.
October 20 – Get Out The Vote Banner Making Workshopwith Moki Tantoco @ Noon in the Mulva Library First Floor Flex Space
This banner-making workshop is in association with the Aram Han Sifuentes Exhibition in the Bush Art Center Galleries. Moki Tantoco has collaborated with Aram Han Sifuentes and will lead this banner making workshop. Moki is an arts administrator, educator, and artist based in Illinois who encourages exploring socially engaged art practices through writing, performance, and installation.
November 15 – Oliver Ressler Zoom Virtual lecture (Zoom) @ Noon
Oliver Ressler is an artist who lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He produces theme-specific exhibitions, projects in the public space, and videos on issues such as democracy, capitalism, and social alternatives to our existing political realities. His work blurs the boundaries between art and activism.
November 17 – Jonas Staal Zoom Virtual lecture (Zoom) @ Noon
Jonas Staal is a Dutch visual artist. His work deals with the relationship between art, democracy, and propaganda.
Special Thanks to The Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, & Public Understanding, The Sturzl Center for Community Service and Learning, The Honors Program, The Office of Student Inclusion and Belonging, The Mulva Library, the Bush Art Center Galleries, and the Art Department for support of this programming.
The Senior Art Exhibition is the capstone experience for all art majors. Each art major creates a body of work centered around a theme of their choice and exhibit their work in the Bush Art Center galleries. This year’s exhibition, featuring work from eight seniors, explores a wide range of topics, including the greatest moments in sports history, a fantasy world that feels like home, and the power of water.
Kori HalsteadTrevor CornellRita HammCora McMainsLeft to right from top: work by Kori Halstead, Trevor Cornell, Rita Hamm, and Cora McMains
Our graduating art majors this year are Francesca Facchini, Cora McMains, Marybeth Koss, Kori Halstead, Ally Laidlaw, Trevor Cornell, Megan Huth, and Rita Hamm. The 2022 Senior Art Exhibition is on display in the Baer and Godschalx Galleries until May 6.
Works of Water. Marybeth KossBare Witness (detail). Ally LaidlawJOIN Brewing Co. Megan HuthUtopia (detail). Rita HammOphidiophobia—Fear of Snakes. Francesca FacchiniBare Witness (detail) Ally Laidlaw
The current exhibition in the Baer Gallery, From Me to You, explores topics of self-perception, beauty and the Black female identity through photography and sculpture. Murphy-Price reflects on the problematic weight of expectations as an inherited female legacy, “passed down from me to you.”
Althea Murphy-Price is an artist and professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville whose work explores the social implication of beauty and its relationship to female identity, women, and culture. Her pieces, which range from screenprint collages to rugs made from human hair, have been shown internationally, including in Spain, China, Japan, Italy and Sweden. She has also been featured in Art Papers Magazine, CAA Reviews, Contemporary Impressions Journal, Art in Print, Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Process, and Printmakers Today. She studied at Spelman College and received a Master of Arts in Printmaking and Painting at Purdue University, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Much of Murphy-Price’s work grapples with the social perceptions and the sense of personal identity tied to Black women’s hair and hairstyles. Her Goody Girl series of photographs responds to the high expectations of #blackgirlmagic, a hashtag intended to uplift and empower, but can also feel like a pressure to perform. Through a metaphor of barrettes and bows, Murphy-Price explores how trying to live up to fantastical expectations can have real consequences.
Her more recent prints, including Black Bird Girl and Requiem, feature 3D printed objects arranged sculpturally in young children’s hair. The dizzying array of hair accessories used in these photographs also composes her sculpture Counter. Some of these accessories, like bows and flowers, are innocent and childlike, but others, like satellites, bullets, and birdcages, have connotations associated with heavier subjects. All have implied expectations, and carrying their weight can be difficult.
Counter (detail) 2021. 3D printed polymer.
From Me to You opened in two stages, on Feb. 28 and March 3, and can be visited through March 31.
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/
