Winter 2002 ▪ Issue 8 ▪ Department of Art and Art History, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911
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• Introduction
• Faculty and Staff News
• Emeriti News
• Awards and Honors
• Alumni News
• Visual Resources Library
• Wriston Art Center Galleries
• Acquisitions to the Gallery
• Gallery Publications
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Michael Orr, chair of the Department of Art and Art History and associate professor of art history. We ended the year in June with another strong cohort of graduating majors. Twenty-one studio art and art history majors received their degrees at Commencement, among them three students with double degrees in art history and studio art. Many of our graduating majors received prizes and awards but one student in particular received an award that warrants special mention here: Daniel Leers, who was awarded the Alexander Wiley Prize in recognition of his dedication to the outdoors. As many of you know, the Wiley Prize is voted upon by the entire faculty, so we all feel proud that one of our students received the award this year. You can find out more details about Dan’s award and those of our other students later on in the newsletter. As you’ll see from the faculty and staff news section, we also said goodbye to five department colleagues this year: Kasarian Dane, who has taken up a position teaching painting and drawing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids; Scott Espeseth, who will be teaching at Beloit College; Anne and Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock, who left for East Lansing where Ted has accepted a position with the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office; and Yumi Roth, who has moved to the sculpture department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The department is grateful to all of them for their dedicated service to the college and we wish them well in the future.
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Alice King Case, lecturer in art. In the spring months, Alice participated in several annual and invitational exhibitions in the Fox Cities community: the Fox Valley Symphony’s 35 th Gala Celebration, the Gala Art Opening XII, and the first annual Art Studio Tour of the Fox Valley Community. In April she was a judge and juror for the annual Secura Exhibition. Also this year, three major corporations in Wisconsin added examples of Alice’s work to their corporate collections. Currently Alice’s work is being exhibited at the Inaugural Exhibition of the new Appleton Center for the Arts. Following that show, a large collection of her Mexican artifacts, and crafts will be on exhibition for the “Latino Experience” as will a mixed media piece of hers chosen by the Center. The figure drawing class and other students made their annual trip to Bjorklunden for their intensive drawing weekend. This annual event has become a highlight of the term for the class. Alice spent her summer months at her home in Lac du Flambeau, and will return to the Vermont Studio Center in September and October where she has received her third Artist-in-Residence award. In the winter she plans to spend two months in Mexico. In 2003 Alice will participate in a collaborative show of Fox Valley artists at the new Appleton Center for the Arts. The artists in the show have all been selected to represent a more “radical” and less conservative approach to art making than is customarily seen in this area.
Kasarian Dane, will be leaving Lawrence after serving for two years as visiting assistant professor of art. He has accepted a tenure track position to teach painting and drawing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. During 2001-02, Kasarian exhibited his paintings in various exhibitions including “Small Works” at New York University, the “Wisconsin Triennial” at the Madison Art Center, and the “Stray Show” in Chicago. In a review of the “Wisconsin Triennial” from the Capital Times Wisconsin State Journal, Kasarian’s paintings were described as “a color field wall display [that] looks more or less like test strips from a paint store”. In addition to teaching and painting, Kasarian has been an active member of the Lawrence University Run Club in preparation for his first marathon that he ran this June. He and his wife Janice are expecting their first child in November.
Anne Grevstad-Nordbrock, instructor in art history. During the 2001-2002 academic year, Anne taught Freshman Studies and a variety of art history courses, including a new offering entitled "Drawn to Nature: Art and Landscape." Students in this new seminar spent a weekend at Bjorklunden where they had an opportunity to explore the Door County environs, photograph the landscape, and consider the history of nature photography. And, on May 24 2002, Anne gave birth to Fritz - a cute and strapping baby who, at 6 weeks of age, found great entertainment in staring at pages of paint samples. Perhaps an artist or art historian in the making?
Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock, visual resources librarian. At the end of May, Ted left his part-time position at Lawrence, having accepted an historian position with the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office in Lansing. Ted and his wife Anne moved in June to East Lansing, where they purchased a home. Joining them is Sofie, the 3-time unofficial canine mascot of the Wriston, and their new baby Fritz!
Amy Hauber, visiting assistant professor of art, had a solo show of new work entitled “The Imagined Life of Someone You Barely Know” at the Clay Place Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. She also had group shows in Baltimore, MD, St. Louis, MO, and Neenah, WI at the Allen-Thomas Gallery along with Kasarian Dane, and Alison Gates of the UW-Green Bay Art Department. This summer Amy participated in a collaborative project, “The Dye House Project,” in the Third Ward of Milwaukee with a group of 12 other artists/creatives. The experience included installation and site-specific work. She also taught a course at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design’s Creative Educators Institute which is a program for teachers from around the U.S. During this course, she created narrative/art websites. This fall she will be in a solo show at the Wright Museum of Art in Beloit, WI.
Carol Lawton, professor of art history, spent the summer in Athens on a Faculty Research Grant, working on several projects concerning Greek sculpture. With colleagues from the excavations of the Athenian Agora, she also worked on the documentation of the watercolors of Piet de Jong, one of the best known archaeological illustrators of the 20 th century, whose work in the Agora has never been completely published. This past academic year, along with Frank Lewis, director of the Wriston Galleries, Carol taught an exhibition seminar featuring the most recent acquisitions for the Ottilia Buerger Coin Collection. In April, nine students from the seminar and from Frank’s Museum Studies Internship mounted an exhibition of Roman and Byzantine coins that explored a number of topics under the rubric “Portraits of Power”. Carol will spend terms II and III of next year in Athens with a Kress Foundation Fellowship.
Frank C. Lewis, director of exhibitions and curator of the collections of the Wriston Art Center Galleries. In April, Frank attended the annual Museums and the Web conference in Boston, MA. On this trip he also visited a number of artists’ studios in order to research possibilities for the Wriston’s upcoming exhibitions. The Summer 2002 issue of Lawrence Today featured an article by Frank regarding some of the educational opportunities that an internship at the Wriston Galleries offers students. The article is well illustrated with a number of works from the Wriston’s permanent collections.
In June and July Frank traveled with other member of the Lawrence faculty and staff to Japan and China. As preparation for the Wriston Galleries’ upcoming exhibition of Japanese Landscape prints, Frank visited a traditional Japanese print gallery where he studied a number of prints by both Hiroshige and his contemporaries. Frank still misses the sushi.
Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, instructors in photography, exhibited their platinum and gum prints at Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison in March, and had an exhibition at the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee, this September. Their work was recently included in two books: Wisconsin Then and Now: The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project by Nicolette Bromberg ( University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 2001) and Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes by The New York Times photography critic Lyle Rexer (Harry N. Abrams, NY, 2002). They also shot book covers for the Wisconsin authors Mike Magnuson (Lummox, Harper-Collins, NY, 2002) and Mike Perry (Population 485, Harper-Collins, NY, 2002). They’re currently editing an experimental documentary film (16 mm, b&w) exploring creativity, isolation, the physical manifestations of aging, and the human need to pass on knowledge.
Michael Orr, associate professor of art history, was on leave in England during the fall of 2001. While overseas, he enjoyed meeting up with several alumnae: Annie Krieg ’01, who visited him from Germany where she was on a Fulbright teaching fellowship; and Amy Mechowski ’96, who resides in London where she is nearing completion of her Ph.D. at University College London. Following his return, Michael gave a paper in March entitled "Limners, Textwriters, Stationers: Recent Approaches to Understanding the Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England," at the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. A few weeks previously, the third volume of his co-authored An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. The Bodleian Library, Oxford was published by Harvey Miller Press. Later in the spring, he gave two lectures as part of the Wisconsin Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Program: "The Making of the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript" at a meeting of the Cream City Calligraphers in Whitefish Bay and "The Book of Hours: The Late Medieval Best-Seller" at the Niederkorn Library in Port Washington. Finally, also as part of the Wisconsin Humanities Council Speakers’ Bureau Program, Michael taught a class on illuminated manuscripts to 5th graders at the Prairie Hill Waldorf School in Pewaukee.
Kristi Roenning, instructor in art, had a solo exhibit at the Essence Gallery in Door County in June. The show featured recent work in oil and photo transfer. While teaching art methods during Term III, Roenning practiced those methods as Artist-in-Residence at St. Joseph School, Sturgeon Bay. Crossroads Nature Preserve was the setting in which students created environmental works inspired by the art of Andy Goldsworthy. Roenning and her art education students traveled to Oshkosh to participate in the Wisconsin Art Education Association Spring Conference. Art ed students Lauren Preisen and Chad Cleveland, will student teach this fall in the Appleton Area School District. Preisen will be teaching with LU grad Renee Reimer-Ulman, studio art, ’94, at Appleton North High School. Last year’s student teacher Marcia McCaully completed her experience with another LU grad Jennifer Kosloski, studio art, ’95, at Wilson Middle School. McCaully’s outstanding work was rewarded with a contract from AASD. She will be teaching art at McKinley Elementary this fall.
Yumi Janairo Roth, assistant professor of art, participated in several group and solo shows and a residency in the Kohler Arts/Industry Program throughout 2001-2002. Over the summer, No Name Exhibitions at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis included her work in “Attached”. In October, Yumi mounted a solo exhibition, “Durable Goods”, of wall and floor works at Dupreau Gallery in Chicago. In December, she participated in a group show at the Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison. In March, “Livingware”, a work that Yumi completed while a resident at Kohler was selected for the Triennial at the Madison Art Center. Yumi spent May and June in New York City where, between celebrity sightings, she collaborated on a number of projects with other artists. In the spring of 2002, Yumi accepted a teaching position at the University of Colorado at Boulder where this fall she is working with undergraduate and graduate students in sculpture. Yumi said she enjoyed her four years teaching at Lawrence and working with such excellent studio art majors and minors. Her email address is yumi.roth@colorado.edu.
OTTILIA M. BUERGER
1916 - 2001
Ottilia M. Buerger, '38, teacher and collector of ancient coins whose collection of rare ancient and Byzantine coins is widely regarded as one of the finest in the United States, died on December 20, 2001, at her home in Mayville, Wisconsin. A loyal and devoted alumna, Ottilia graduated magna cum laude from Lawrence and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa before teaching Latin and English in secondary schools in Goodman, Wautoma, and Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. A service of remembrance was held at the Wriston Art Center on January 15.
Tetradrachm of Lysimachos of Thrace, c. 297-81 B.C. Obverse head of Alexander the Great with the horns of Ammon.
A lifelong resident of Mayville, Wisconsin, Ottilia purchased her first ancient coin in the 1950s at Gimbel's Department Store in Milwaukee for about five dollars. Subsequently, she acquired hundreds of gold, silver, and electrum coins, some of which are among the best examples of those still extant. Her collection was the subject of the 1995 exhibition at the Wriston Art Center titled "Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University." The accompanying catalog, published by the Lawrence University Press, with essays by Lawrence faculty and catalog entries by Lawrence students, is regarded as a seminal publication for both amateur and professional numismatists alike. An online version of the catalog, published on the Lawrence web site (www.lawrence.edu/dept/art/buerger/) has recorded over 4.2 million visitors. A second major exhibition from the collection, “Portraits of Power,” was on view in the Wriston Art Center galleries from April 5 to May 19, 2002.
Guided by the conviction that ancient coins were eyewitnesses to history, Ottilia believed that her "baubles," as she called them, could bring a vivid reality to the past, and she encouraged Lawrence students to make use of her collection in their studies. In grateful recognition of her own Lawrence education, Ottilia bequeathed her collection to her alma mater and generously provided funds to establish the Ottilia Buerger Professorship.
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E. Dane Purdo, professor emeritus of art, after a year’s recovery from major neck surgery, has returned to doing private commissions. He donated a silver pin for the Domestic Abuse annual gala and art auction and a gold pin to the Appleton Art Center gala. While attending the Lawrence reunion this spring, he renewed his memories with former art majors Leslie Dickenson, ’73, Maggie Upton Trumbull, 72,Jane Sramek,’72, and Cathy Green. Dane said it was good to hear they are still involved with art. In October he attended a retreat at Bjorklunden with other emeriti professors.
Arthur Thrall, professor emeritus of art, was the awards’ juror for the Wauwatosa Artists Annual Exhibit in the Alphons Gallery. He was commissioned to create several prints for the Northwestern Mutual Company corporate art collection which also recently purchased more than a dozen other etchings and hand-colored prints. His donated etching was featured in the annual Milwaukee public television Channel 10 auction fundraiser. He was included in the latest edition of Who’s Who in America, and was commissioned to create two paintings for a law office in Philadelphia. His paintings were also selected to be hung in the Milwaukee Symphony Show House this fall. In spring he went on an art and architectural tour of Barcelona, Bilbao and San Sebastian, Spain, and his work is currently in an exhibit at the Uihlein-Peters Gallery.
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A number of awards were presented to art and art history majors at the 2001 Honors Convocation.
Jennifer Kiana Neal, studio art/art history, ’02, received the Letterwinner Awardpresented by the “L” Club to those outstanding seniors who have earned eight or more varsity letters for her participation in soccer and softball. Jennifer also received the Pond Award for Women for all-around athletic ability by a senior woman in two or more sports and for sportsmanship, school spirit, and scholarship for her outstanding contributions to the soccer and softball teams.
The Jessie Mae Pate McConagha Prize recognizing interdisciplinary scholarship in art history within the humanities was awarded to Paula J. Zadigian, art history/history, ’02, for her ability to combine the insights offered by art history, history, and philosophy/theory in a single project.
Jessica Harris Bozeman, art history/performance: voice, ’05, received the Pi Kappa Lambda Sophomore Prize given for outstanding scholarly achievement.
Melanie Ann Kehoss, studio art, ’02, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
The E. Dane Purdo Award, given to an exceptional student in art or ceramics for summer study, was awarded to Heidi Romanshek, studio art, ’02, for her commitment to painting and her summer residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
The Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Art was awarded to Kristin Leigh Hoffmann, art history/economics, ’02, for graduate study in business and arts administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in recognition of her accomplishments in art history.
The Elizabeth Richardson Award, awarded to women excelling in studio art and art history was given to:
Hayley Nelson Kahn, studio art, ’02, for her generosity towards her classmates, her intellectual contributions to the studio art program, and her commitment to art.
Jamie Mercedes Lee, studio art, ’02, for her exploration of materials, her incisive sense of humor, and her commitment to art.
Erin E. Garland, art history, ’02, for her enthusiasm for the field of art history and her ability to think critically about a wide range of art historical topics.
The Senior Art Prize for Men, awarded to men excelling in studio art or art history.
Michael George Nickel, studio art, ’02, for his commitment to ideas, his dedication to craft, and his exploration of multiple mediums and formats in art.
Daniel Miles Leers, art history, ’02, in recognition of the excellent progress, and enthusiasm with which he has pursued the study of art history. Daniel also received the Alexander Wiley Prize, awarded to an undergraduate, who has most demonstrated a principled independence of thought, moral courage, and creative commitment to a significant cause. He received it in recognition of his dedication to the outdoors as demonstrated through his work with the Outdoor Recreation Club, Earth Day, Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, Buboltz Nature preserve, and Mosquito Hill Nature Center.
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Kris Brainard Addington, art history, ’94, is living in St. Paul with her husband, David and is continuing her work towards a Masters in Arts Administration at St. Mary’s University. She is working as a communication consultant at the Watson Wyatt Worldwide company in Minneapolis.
Nalin Advani, studio art/education, ’87, lives in Naka-ku Yokohama, Japan. He is chief marketing officer of eSol, Inc., which develops software for mobile and embedded internet consumer devices. Nalin has had many opportunities to travel in and about the Far East.
Laura Andersen, art history, ’96, is continuing her work in development at the American Academy of Neurology Education & Research Foundation. She lives in St. Paul, MN.
Charlie Arnold, studio art, ’01, is continuing at the Maryland Institute of Art and Design working toward his MFA. This summer he enjoyed spending some time at his home in Austin, Texas.
Elizabeth (Beth) Austin Asch, studio art, ’81, lives in Paris most of the year, a city she loves, and to which she was first introduced as a foreign student while on a Lawrence program. As a studio artist, she exhibits in Chicago and has loaned work to the U.S. Department of State’s Art in the Embassies program. Her current series is a set of nocturnes of the night sky and is more figurative than any of her earlier work. Beth incorporates techniques learned from Arthur Thrall in printmaking along with her own unique style of diffraction grating applied to clear acrylic sheets.
Geoffrey Baum, studio art, ’88, does extensive work in electronic art. He was part of the ARS Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria this year where he had his own project and worked on another.
Mary Schroeder Benjamin, studio art, ’62, lives in Columbia, MO and is a clay artist specializing in colored porcelain vessels and jewelry. Her business is Designs in Clay and she owns, as part of a five-women partnership, a studio in Columbia.
Teri Herbst Bill, studio art, ’79, is presently office manager and co-owner of an investment business with her husband, John A. Bill ’79. Teri enjoys traveling and photography.
Pamela Callahan, studio art, ’88, is strongly involved with the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and continues to pursue her own art work, some of which can be viewed at htt://pamelacallahan.womanmade.net. She especially enjoys producing the Gallery’s annual Her Mark datebook.
Caroline Campbell-McCarthy, studio art, ’82, is a practicing artist in St. Louis, MO. She volunteers at her daughter’s elementary school, teaching art appreciation.
Ted Chesky, studio art, ’83, living in Ann Arbor, MI, is Vice-President of Design Hub, a graphic design and web development company. Ted is also working on his flight instructor certificate.
Mark Cravens, studio art, ’81, married Mary Hargrave, ’82, (theater/costume design) in 1983. They have two daughters: Claudia who is 17 ½ (who is looking at colleges and interested in Lawrence) and Katie who just turned 13. Mark is currently Vice President of Risk Management at Wellington Underwriting, and Mary runs Mary Cravens Design, doing clothing , textile, wedding, and furniture design out of their home in Palo Alto, CA. After a hiatus, Mark started painting again five years ago using oils, water colors and mixed media.
Adam Demers, art history, ’94, spent three weeks in France in April, 2002. He said it was pure escapism but he adds, escapism with a purpose. In October, he headed to the Portfolio Center in Atlanta.
Leslie Dickinson, art, ’73, said her highlight last year was the National Scholastic American Visions Award bestowed upon one of her middle school students and presented in New York City. Leslie also received the Award for Professional Excellence given to only thirty teachers in Washington State. She designed a clay room for her students with six wheels and four kilns including a raku kiln. All equipment was obtained through fund raising, recycling aluminum cans, and a few grants.
Kelli Dornfeld, studio art, ’90, is currently teaching art to 6th, 7th and 8th graders in St. Louis, MO. In the summer she works on the organic farm/environmental education center she runs with her husband Chris Wimmer, and their two year old son, Cole.
Erik Eckblad, studio art, ’95, lives in the Milwaukee area and continues to work as a graphic designer for WITI-TV.
Peter Edwards, studio art, ’99, signed on for a third year in the Japan Exchange Teaching Program. He will remain in Japan throughout the next year along with Karen Adams, studio art ’99, who is working there in the educational field.
Melissa Capra Ehrens, studio art, ’83, has moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon, where her husband Jack is with Planar Systems.
Siri Engberg, art history/English, ’89, is currently working as associate curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where she oversees a range of exhibitions on contemporary art as well as manages the museum’s print study room. This fall, she will be publishing a book through the museum, entitled Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991. In 1999 she was married to Marty Broan, and in February 2001, they had a son, Simon Lockyer Broan. This coming October she is expecting their second child.
Scott Frankenberger, art education, ’71, has been a full-time clay artist and potter since 1979 with occasional periods of teaching. Scott is currently working on a large four-panel tile mural (800 sq. ft.) for the new Ivy Tech State College building in Lafayette, IN.
Courtney Gerber, art history, ’99, accepted an offer from Tufts University this fall on a half tuition fellowship, working towards an M.A. in art history and museum studies. She became recently engaged to a Lawrence Conservatory grad, Chad Freeburg, ‘99.
William Giesey, visual arts/sculpture, ’92, began 2002 by selling his design and restoration company to his business partner. He then used the proceeds to purchase six properties that he has been designing, renovating and selling. Will’s wife, Sherry, who ran the ABC high school program in Appleton, is pregnant with their first child and runs a health clinic in Camden for the homeless. They send their best to all of their LU friends.
Jon Greene, art history, ’93, is enjoying time with his wife, Julie, and their daughter Avery Elizabeth. Jon works for J. Walter Thompson in Chicago as a client director.
Isaac Guenther, studio art, ’98, has returned to his hometown of Sherwood, WI after being gone for two years. Isaac is currently in the organ building business with studio art alumus Christoph Wahl.
Kathryn Henry-Choisser, studio art, ’81. In April of this year, Kathryn traveled with a group of Virginia artists to Daegu, South Korea for the “Korean and American Exchange Exhibition.” Her solo exhibition of paintings and drawings entitled “Lost and Found” and mentioned in the last newsletter, has been reviewed in the May/June 2002 issue of Art Papers magazine.
Rick Herzog, studio art, ’02, married Jody Rasmussen, art history, ’03, in September, 2002 in Oshkosh. Congratulations to Rick and Jody.
Mike Ingala, studio art, ’96, said a highlight of the past year was attending the Lawrence five-year reunion. He is planning on becoming an ordained minister via the internet and plans on performing his friend’s wedding ceremony this summer. Mike said, “No miracles or acts of God are planned but I’m open to the possibility.”
Laura Wirtz Jenkins, studio art, ’88 . A belated congratulations to Laurie on the birth of her baby. Lauri continues with her active involvement in silversmithing and specialty art shop in Wilmette, IL.
Lee Lentz Jones, art, ’57, has spent the last ten years doing a lot of art work: some oils, many watercolors, folk art dolls, hooked rugs, quilts, and knitted clothes. She completed a week-long watercolor class with Tony Couch. It was full of demonstrations, valuable design and technique information and critiques. Lee said, “I found it wonderfully helpful. Living in Door county is great for art exposure, sales, and inspiration.”
Dana Kass, studio art/chemistry, ’01, is working on her Ph.D. in chemistry (in a group working with ionic liquids and supercritical fluids) at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She is also a teaching assistant there. Dana is engaged to James Eagan, ’00, who is also at Georgia Tech, in his second year in the Ph.D. program in computer science.
Sherrill Weller Knezel, art education, ’91, is an art teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in Wauwatosa, WI. She has two boys ages 3 and 6.
Annie Krieg, art history/German, ’01, has finished a Fulbright teaching assistantship in Germany. She is starting the MA program in art history at the University of Pittsburgh this fall and hopes to continue to concentrate on medieval monastic architecture for women.
Andrew Kutchera, art history/Spanish, ’94, completed his MFA in graphic design from CalArts in 2001. While at CalArts, he also studied alto saxophone and performed with a variety of free-improvisational ensembles. He is presently working at the University of Southern California in the public relations department. Outside of work, Andrew continues performing with a Los Angeles-based trio, which consists of harp, cello, and saxophone.
Alison Latimer, art history, ’97, lives in Chicago. She is working at the Starcom IP (Leo Burnett) doing work for the U.S. Army.
Diana (Jia yi) Ling, physics/studio art, 94. After completing her master’s degree in physics and her MFA, she is teaching in the Art New Media Department at American River College in Sacramento, CA. Her department was originally part of the Art Department, but the enrollment grew so large that a separate department was created. In 2000, she married a Taiwanese classmate from graduate school in a simple civil ceremony, and they later traveled to Shanghai for a formal wedding.
Diane Ludwig, studio art, ’97, lives in Hortonville and is an art teacher in the Appleton Catholic Education System.
Carolyn Lussow, studio art, ’97, and her husband, Alex Paul, history, ’97, and their one year old daughter have moved to Wisconsin Rapids, where Alex is practicing law.
Sara Lyke, studio art, ’96, is continuing her work on a master’s degree in education at Spring Arbor College while she is also teaching in the Bedford Public Schools in Sylvan, Ohio.
Kevin McCary, studio art, ’88, is teaching art to K-8 at St. Therese School in Deephaven, MN. This is his first year at the school. The last four years he was at St. Francis Intermediate School in St. Francis, MN, where he taught art to 4-6 grades.
Megan McCaskey, art/German, ’94, graduated last year with a master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Texas.
Lisa Schmidt Miezwa, studio art, ’85, lives in Park Ridge, IL. She is a new product development manager for the Law Bulletin Publishing Company.
Andrea Morrill, art history, ’96, earned her Masters degree in Northern Renaissance Art from the University of Wisconsin in 2000, and then moved to Texas for an eight month graduate internship at the Dallas Museum of Art in Museum Education. In April, 2001, she presented a version of her Master’s paper entitled “The Triumph of Maximilian I: Adapting the Antique for Contemporary Advantage” at the Midwest Art History Society Conference in Minneapolis. Andrea is currently the Curator of Education at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum in Cape Girardeau, where she is developing education programs, assisting in the planning of permanent installations and is able to participate in a variety of curatorial activities.
Molly Munsing, studio art, ’99, has been accepted into the University of Minnesota’s Master of Architecture Program. She started architecture studio work this summer with a four-week summer intensive session for people without architecture backgrounds before she moved into the graduate program.
Anne Jacobsen Murray, studio art, ’82, lives in Chicago and is a special education teacher at the Burban School in that area.
Gary Nettekoven, studio art, ’89, was married to Laura Jelnick in August of 2000. He is the Founder of Diamon Works, a residential cleaning and maintenance company since 1995.
Erin Oliver, studio art/art history, ’99, lives in Appleton and is a custom framer at the Frame Workshop.
Deirdre Olson, studio art, ’90, continues in her very active and successful silversmithing business out of Minneapolis, MN. She now has her own catalog and also her work can be found on the web.
Heather Humbert Price, studio art, ’88, loves living in New York Mills, MN and works as the Arts Retreat Coordinator for the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center where she meets many artists and writers from around the U.S. She recently was a “visiting artist” for a one-day in-school residency teaching 200 third graders about the Sami culture and simple printmaking techniques. Heather was one of five artists to work with the students as part of a “Cultural Passport Project.” She said she gained a new respect for educators and says “hats off to you!”
Erika Rand, studio art/anthropology/Spanish, ’95, works as a freelance designer/photographer out of her Manhattan studio. Clients include: New York University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Martha Stewart Living, Tiffany & Co, Banana Republic, St. Martin’s Press, off-Broadway’s “Extravaganza”, and Rounder Records. In the past year, she has traveled and photographed bits of life in Cuba, Spain, the Dominican Republic, and Costa Rica.
Kristin Rasmussen, psychology/studio art, ’91, lives in Shoreview, MN. She is a child protection investigator for the Hennepin County Children and Family and Adult Services.
Jennifer Richards, studio art, ’95. After graduation, Jennifer did two years in the AmeriCorps, which she said was a fun and challenging experience. Her art has become more of a past time than vocation, but she has tried some other medias. She has been learning to work with stained glass over the past months and has sold a few pieces to friends.
Scott Rice, studio art, ’95, received his MFA in Film and Video at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently in production on “The Anatomy Lesson,” a film about artists and models inspired by an assignment given by Alice Case during a figure drawing class. Scott has already received national recognition for his work, having received an Emmy for his film, “Pillowfight” which was featured on “Showtime.” His work has appeared in many festivals and showcases including the New York Comedy Film Festival, Slamdance, and American Short Shorts Japan.
Jefferson Riley, art major with focus on architecture, ’68, is a partner at Centerbrook Architects in Connecticut. Yale University has asked to archive Centerbrook’s drawings, past and future, in its Sterling Library. Jeff’s own house in Guilford, CT received the Twenty-five Year Award from the New England Regional American Institute of Architects. He is working on several major sustainable design projects. One project includes a new School of Public Health for the Univer-sity of Michigan and an Athletic Arena Complex for Quinnipiac University, where he has been the architect for twenty-five years. He continues to keep in touch with Arthur Thrall, emeritus professor of art, and to add to his collection of spellbinding Thrall etchings.
Timothy Riley, art history, ‘92. In addition to his official duties as a director in the Development Office at Lawrence, Tim continues to lecture and teach on a variety of art historical subjects. In the past year he presented an illustrated lecture entitled “The Art of Collecting” at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. The highlight of Tim’s year was a trip to Italy in June 2001. There he conducted lectures and tours for a group of American students at many of the major monuments and museums in Venice, Rome, Siena and Florence (where he gave a gallery talk at the Uffizi Gallery). Also, Tim, along with Professor Carol Lawton and President Warch, paid a warm tribute to Ottilia Buerger, ’38, at a memorial service held for her at the Wriston Art Center in January.
Mary Ann Sanford, fine art, ’55, said she has spent the last year working on “rejuvenating this tired old body.” She’s been seeing a personal trainer three times a week since January. Now, in Maine, she is doing some weight lifting and is beginning an easy yoga class. Mary Ann traveled with ten friends to Scotland in late August. Bev (Hart) Branson, ’55,and daughter, Anne, (her godchild) also went on the trip.
Julie Schmitz, art history, ’97, lives in Middleton, WI and was married to Stephen Salt on November 3, 2001. Several LU alumni were in the wedding: Stacci Cook, anthropology, ’97, was the maid-of-honor, Tricia Toledo, music performance (voice),’96, sang and Anne Brewer, mathematics and music performance (clarinet), ’97, played her clarinet. Alumni attending were Barb Paziouros, mathematics and music performance (flute), ’97,Jason Roberts, music education (instrumental), ’97,Erick Walter, English, ’97, Tricia’s husband Bob Seiser,biology and chemistry, ’96, and Erin Wade, studio art, ’98. The wedding website is: http://www.thetunnelsend.com/steve/wedding/ Currently Julie is a Special Education Assistant at West High in Madison. She said she loves the challenge of the work and impacting her students’ lives in a positive way. She is very involved with her church and its children’s ministry which provides an outlet for her acting abilities.
Natasha Salier Schnell, art history/English, ’96, was married on June 8 to David Schnell who is a history teacher at Prospect High School in Arlington Heights, IL. Natasha completed her masters in counseling last August and is currently working on her doctorate in counselor education at Northern Illinois University. She also works at University Resources for Women at NIU, doing individual and group counseling, in addition to sitting on various campus committees.
Margaret Schumann, studio art, ’63, has been working with the older adult population for the last 17 years using her creative juices to keep them busy, active, and challenged in a number of different settings. She has set up a number of different programs and currently is the Community Outreach Coordinator at a Milwaukee area retirement community where she is offering services to the neighboring communities. Margaret said in her first life, she taught elementary and junior high art classes for seven years before “retiring” to raise her children, now grown.
Rebecca Sigler-Africano, art history, ’86. Rebecca’s highlight of the past year was the birth of her second son, Paul Raphael, on March 4, 2001. Another accomplishment was finishing “ America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride,” a century ride around Lake Tahoe with Team in Training, which raised 4.5 million dollars for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She said it was an awesome ride, one in which she couldn’t have done without the support of her husband Robert. Also, she wanted to thank those Lawrentians who so generously supported her. You helped her raise over $10,000!
Eileen Sliwinski, studio art, ’87, lives in Seattle, WA and teaches art in the sixth grade level in the Seattle Public Schools.
Rob Smart, studio art, ’96, has recently joined the faculty at Lawrence as a lecturer in art. We are pleased to welcome Rob back to his alma mater in a different capacity. Rob received his MFA in sculpture from Boston University and has moved to Appleton from Minneapolis, where he had been working as an independent studio artist.
Leah Salscheider Strothman, art history, ’94, says she and her husband have purchased and are renovating their first house – a 1910 Victorian in Chicago. She is still working for Consulting For Architects and is hoping the architecture market rebounds!
Kristina Sunde, studio art/art history, ’01, has finished her first year at the New York Academy in Manhattan, and completed her fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. She says she is happy to be back in New York, and is looking forward to her second year there.
Ted Sutherland, studio art, ’88, has entered his third year as an art instructor in the Austin Public Schools. Ted received his MFA in sculpture from the University of Texas-Austin.
Trevor Thompson, math-computer science/studio art, ’90, has the distinction of being Lawrence’s first computer and art graduate from the School of Visual Arts, in New York. Trevor is now living in Congers, New York and is a senior developer for Blue Sky Studios, a computer animation firm.
Kelly Anne Goode Tooker, art history/studio art, ’90, is currently working for an insurance agency in Portland, Oregon. Kelly lives in Vancouver with her husband and their two children, Maraya (8), Elleah (6) and two cats, Bebe and TAMS (Totally Automated Mousing System). Having recently sold their business, they are looking forward to enjoying life a little more and having weekends and holidays off.
Joy Gerrits Vertz, studio art, ’96, is an account executive with Information Systems Engineering in Oconomowoc, WI. She lives in Port Washington.
Miriam (Mimi) Ann Spiegel Volkmann, art history/German, ’59, continues to enjoy her retirement after almost 40 years of teaching in the USA, Switzerland and Germany.
Sophia Wagner, studio art, ’99, has returned from her year in Dublin, Ireland as a recipient of a Rotary Scholarship. She is beginning her new teaching position as a middle-school art instructor in the Glenview Public Schools system, near Chicago.
Kelli Dornfeld Wimmer, studio art, ’90. Congratulations on the birth of her second son, Nicholas. She and her husband, Chris, and their two year old son Cole live on an organic farm near St. Louis, MO. Kelli continues to teach art to middle school students in the St. Louis School District.
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The 2001-2002 academic year was a quiet but productive one for the Visual Resources Library. In addition to the typical duties of slide-making, filing, image research, and digital scanning, several special projects were undertaken. A general massaging of the existing collections was identified as a high priority. Slide and drawer labels were replaced en masse, as were the chad-like, sticky red “dots” that indicate a slide’s proper orientation within the projector carousel. Several new pieces of AV equipment were also purchased: a new overhead projector with cart, two sturdy stands for the lecture hall slide projectors, and a dozen or so slide carousels. A handful of industrious student workers were present throughout the year to help the visual resources librarian. Seniors Kate Schulz, biology, ’02, and Erin Garland, art history, ’02, and juniors Emily Kalies, studio art, ’03, and Amelia Adams, art history, ’03, all worked in the VRL, tackling (with unwavering optimism!) such projects as the much-dreaded Red Dot Replacement Campaign. This is an ongoing project that will run into next year.
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2001-2002 Exhibition Schedule
Emily Groom: a Milwaukee-Downer College Legacy
September 28 - November 4, 2001
An exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Emily Groom, founder and first chairperson of the Milwaukee-Downer College Art Department. Ms. Groom was one of the most widely exhibited Wisconsin artists in the first half of the twentieth century. Her career spanned over eighty years and her subject matter ranged from landscapes to brilliantly colored still life arrangements. Milwaukee-Downer College and Lawrence College consolidated to become Lawrence University in 1964.
Modernity and the Fragment
November 16 - December 16, 2001
Works of art from the permanent collection of the Wriston Galleries that give expression to the alienation and fragmentation which many artists felt at the beginning of the twentieth century. Among the many important early twentieth century movements represented will be Cubism and German Expressionism.
Landscape and the Natural Order
January 18 - March 17, 2002
Throughout history artists have sought to represent both the wonder and awe that they have felt in front of nature. Through both historical and contemporary examples, this exhibition will display the variety of responses, ranging from traditional landscape paintings to more conceptual and abstract approaches to the landscape and nature.
Portraits of Power
April 5 - May 19, 2002
To celebrate the recent addition of a number of coins into Lawrence University's already impressive collection, advanced students in art history will research and interpret the role and the variety of portrait types in classical coins. This exhibition will put a number of coins from the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins, now housed in the Wriston Galleries, into a social, cultural, historical, and aesthetic context.
Senior Exhibition
May 31 - August 5, 2002
Lawrence University 's Senior Art Majors present a selection of their finest work created during their course of study. Works exhibited included paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, photography and a variety of sculptural media.
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Wriston Art Center Galleries would like to thank the following individuals who donated works of art to our galleries in the last year:
■ Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Hans Wurster, watercolor by artist Betty Proper: view of 228/224 N. Park Avenue in winter.
■ Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Maring, watercolor by Thomas Dietrich: landscape, mine or quarry scene, 1947.
■ Gift of Arthur K. Bennett Jr., Captain USN Ret., three Japanese woodblock prints by Utagawa, Kuniyoshi.
■ Purchased with funds from Katherine T. Bowen Charitable Trust (Family of Sarah Bowen class of 2001), mixed media (embossed lead sheets) by Louise Nevelson, The Night Sound, 1971.
■ Gift of Fred Gaines, watercolor by Helen R. Klebesadel, In Celebration of Simple Acts, 1990.
■ Gift of John and Suzy Mead Dyrud, ten examples of ancient Etruscan pottery.
■ Estate of Ottilia Buerger, ancient Greek and Roman coins.
■ Purchase by Wriston Art Gallery and Lawrence University, three Hiroshige I woodblock prints, purchased in Kyoto, Japan.
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Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University Cost: $35.00
German Expressionism at Lawrence University: The La Vera Pohl Collection Cost: $25.00
Both are available from Union Station Store, 615 E. College Avenue, Appleton, WI 54911 - (920) 832-6988.
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