Thursday, Oct. 17 | 4:30 p.m
Teakwood Room, Chapman Hall (2nd floor)
Emma Jacobs ’25, senior art history & history major and summer research fellow, will share her research on the historic Teakwood Room. All are welcome to attend!
Tuesday, Oct. 15 | 4:30 p.m.
Memorial 002
Hear LU Studio Art alumni working in Art Therapy & Wellness share info about their career journeys:
The alumni will join us on campus in Memorial Hall 002 via Zoom. Bring your questions about these career fields!
Thursday, Oct. 10 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Auditorium
Join us for a talk by artist Christopher McNulty ’90 and a reception to celebrate the Fall 2024 exhibitions. Reception with refreshments to follow.
The Galleries are open during academic year exhibitions:
Galleries are free, open to the public, and located in the Wriston Art Center.
Image: Christopher McNulty ’90, 20,045 Days (2007), iInk on paper, from Days Series (2006-2008)
Hear LU Studio Art alumni working in medicine and sciences share info about their career journeys:
– Lexi Ames ’17 | Studio Art & Biology Major | artist, deathcare worker, and science communicator
– Aedan Gardill ’18 | Studio Art & Physics Major | product development engineer at Mad City Labs
– Ora Raymond ’20 | Studio Art & Biochemistry Major | medical student at Uni of Minnesota
– Leila Raymond ‘23 | Studio Art Major | Dental Assistant and Project Manager at EXCELth Family Dental
Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 4:30 p.m., Memorial 002
The alumni will join us on campus in Memorial Hall 002 via Zoom. Bring your questions about these career fields!
Hear LU Studio Art Alumni working in design and gaming share info about their career journeys:
– Noah Gunther ’17, Technical Artist at Meta (and ENG major)
– Yifan Zhang ’19, Product Designer at Toast (and MATH major)
– Rachel Cole ’19, interior designer
Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 4:30 p.m., Memorial 002
The alumni will join us on campus in Memorial Hall 002 via zoom. Bring your questions about these career fields!
Friday, April 19 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Center
Artist Robin Jebavy will discuss her practice and the large scale paintings in her exhibition, Expanding Fields. https://robinjebavy.com/
Everyone is welcome! Reception with refreshments to follow.
Monday, March 4 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Galleries
Poetry reading featuring Dasha Kelly Hamilton, former Poet Laureate for the City of Milwaukee and the 2020-2022 Poet Laureate for the State of Wisconsin. Part of Black Feminist Fortnight programs.
Read more about Dasha here: https://poets.org/poet/dasha-kelly-hamilton
Part of Black Feminist Fortnight programs, generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.
Wednesday, Feb. 28 | 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Wriston Art Galleries
Come relax and listen to N.K. Jemisin short fiction from “How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?” The first 30 folks will receive a paperback copy of the book.
Part of the Black Feminist Fortnight Programs. Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.
Thursday, Feb. 22 | 4:30 p.m.
Wriston Art Center
Also a showing of The Donnor Party, a creative commentary on colonization
Reception with refreshments to follow.
Part of Black Feminist Fortnight programs, generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.
January 12 – March 8
What is an identity, but a story of self? As an artist with cultural ties to multiple empires, I am unwinding the mythologies of United States and Japanese nationalism that I’ve been taught, and am weaving new stories to tell about myself and my people. In the diaspora, I both yearn towards the past, longing for a stronger connection to my ancestors, and towards the future, desperately envisioning a future where me and my communities are rooted deeply enough in order to withstand the coming climate hardship. In this tension between past and future, I paint yōkai, the strange spirit creatures of Japanese myth.
Yōkai are not exactly ghost, or monster, or spirit, but a wide umbrella category holding all of these and more. I am drawn to these creatures’ tendency to inhabit in between space, and I paint them to help me release rage, evoke cycles, channel joy, and remember what’s been lost.
These paintings were originally commissioned as a set of 16 chapter headers for my sister Jami Nakamura Lin’s debut memoir The Night Parade (2023), published by Mariner HarperCollins. My goal in illustrating The Night Parade was to depict yōkai that had escaped the idealized, frozen concept of ancient Japan, and had re-rooted in the complexities of my second-and-fourth-generation Taiwanese, Japanese, and Okinawan American experience. Cori Nakamura Lin – Artist Statement
The End of Somewhere uses San Francisco as a vehicle to explore multiplicities of identity, memory, and history; Kayla Bauer works with photography, text, and found imagery to create fragmentary narratives that may or may not be rooted in reality. Bauer is currently completing a Ph.D at UW-Madison and her MFA thesis exhibition, I Left My Heart…, was awarded the 2022 Russell and Paula Panczenko Prize.
An exhibition of sculptural works curated around Senga Nengudi’s multi-part A.C.Q. (Air Conditioning Queen), on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation. A.C.Q. is a mixed-media installation, composed of found metal refrigerator parts and donated second-hand nylon pantyhose. This juxtaposition of the rigid-industrial-abstract and the elastic-intimate-human give us a means to think through ideas about gender and resilience. Sculpture and installation pieces by Monty Little, Anna Campbell, and Callie Kiesow present similarly startling juxtapositions, with isolated elements of the human body paired with and disrupted by pattern and abstraction; they also offer expansive ways of thinking about how these formal cues signal larger ideas about identity and survival.
