Fall 2005 ▪ Issue 11 ▪ Department of Art and Art History, Appleton, Wisconsin 54912
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Carol Lawton, chair of the Department of Art and Art History and professor of art history. This spring we were pleased to announce the joint appointment of Julie Lindemann and John Shimon to our new tenure-track position in photography. Julie and John have been teaching photography in the department as adjunct instructors since 2000, and we are delighted that they will now be full-time members of the department and able to expand their offerings to digital photography. I am also pleased to announce the appointment of Shannon Goff as adjunct instructor in ceramics for fall 2005. Shannon received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art and recently held a residency at the John Michael Kohler Art Center’s Arts/Industry Program. Next year Frank Lewis, director of exhibitions and curator of the Wriston Gallery Collections, will temporarily teach full-time, adding two new courses in the History of Photography and Contemporary Art, while Ester Fajzi-DeGroot will assume the role of acting curator in the Wriston Galleries. Ester will be assisted by Clare Cosky, art history ’05 as acting collections manager. At the end of this academic year the department also said goodbye to two of our colleagues, Alexis Boylan and Verna Holland. We are grateful to them for their service to the department and the university, and we wish them well in their future endeavors.
This year we had a large number of students (18) graduating with majors in studio art or art history, including one student with a double major in both areas. The outstanding achievements of all our majors and minors are listed below, but I would like to take the opportunity here to highlight some of our graduating seniors’ independent projects in art history and studio art:
Following a generous loan to Lawrence by Mrs. Ann Nelson of several illuminated manuscripts, Jessica Bozeman completed an independent study with Michael Orr on one of the manuscripts, an extensively illustrated later fifteenth-century Book of Hours. In the process, she discovered that the manuscript was probably produced in Limoges in c. 1470-80 by a workshop distantly related to Maître François.
Emily Klosiewski, working in a series of Independent Studies with Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, created a series of black-and-white photographs exploring identity and surroundings, drawing on her work as an anthropology major and studio art minor. For these she was awarded a photography scholarship from the Photo Marketing Association International North Central Division.
Jules Ruff, combining her interests in history, Classics and art history, did an Honors Project under the supervision of Carol Lawton, in which she investigated an unpublished gold medallion issued by the Roman emperor Constantius II that was given to Lawrence as part of the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins. For her work on this project, she was awarded honors summa cum laude.
Working with Frank Lewis, Laura Sivert researched works from the permanent collection of the Wriston Galleries and developed an exhibition entitled “The Modern City,” which was displayed this spring in the Leech Gallery. For the exhibition, Laura produced didactic labels and an introductory essay relating the rise of the modern urban environment to the development of a number of early twentieth-century art movements, and she digitized the images and produced a videotape essay documenting the exhibition and its themes.
Working with Alexis Boylan, Kat Steiner did an Honors Project on the African-American artist Aaron Douglas, focusing on the ways in which he has been excluded from art historical narratives concerning modernism. With the financial assistance of an Arthur Thrall Travel Grant, she traveled to New York City for first-hand study of some of Douglas’ works. For this project, Kat was awarded honors magna cum laude.
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• Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history. It was a very busy year for Alexis, who spent the fall term in New York City with a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During this time she worked on an article about Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s sculpture of Robert Louis Stevenson. She then returned to Lawrence in the winter term and had the opportunity to teach a class in the Gender Studies Department. In spring, she curated her first exhibition: “Guys and Dolls: Gender and American Art, Selections from the Wriston Art Center Galleries.” In the spring she also co-hosted, along with Faith Barrett of the English Department and Jerry Podair of the History Department, "New Approaches to the Civil War: An Interdisciplinary Symposium." The symposium featured talks by prominent Civil War scholars, including keynote speaker David Blight, Professor of African American Studies and History at Yale University, and Kirk Savage, Chair of the Art History Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Alexis left Lawrence this summer to take a new position at the University of Tennessee. She said that it was a difficult decision to make, and that she truly enjoyed her time here with her colleagues and students. Her new email is aboylan@utk.edu. She invites everyone to keep in touch and feel free to visit her in Knoxville!
• Alice King Case, instructor of studio art emerita, sends her greetings from the Northwoods of Wisconsin. In the late fall she began her fellowship/residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Returning home, she exhibited in some minor shows, and she continues to be represented by the Water Street Gallery in Princeton, WI, near Madison (waterstreetart.com). When she returned to Lawrence, she taught Drawing and was pleased to have a packed and very enthusiastic class.
Later she was juried into the 61st Annual at the Neville Museum in Green Bay, and she was also represented in the Northern National exhibition at Nicolet College, where she received a Benefactor Prize. At the end of the year, the department had a reception for her "official retirement.” Alice stated that it was a heartwarming experience to see students of the past and the present, and to have friends and colleagues visit at that time. She continues to wish all of you her best - and hopes those art educators out there are making great strides in their careers. She invites you to stay in touch. Her new email is: immycase@earthlink.net
• Joe D’Uva, assistant professor of art, exhibited in the "Children of the Corn" Exhibition at the Mid-America Printmaking Council Conference at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE in October 2004. In January, he had a solo exhibition entitled “cubscoutyears” in our Wriston Art Galleries. In April, he was a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Joe will be on leave during the fall term, traveling to Zacatecas, Mexico, where he received a printmaking residency at the Museo d’art Abstracto, Centro de Formacion, Produccion e Investigacion Grafica MUSEOGRABADO. There he will be developing a new body of work that will be published by the Museo. In October he will be in a juried exhibition at the Mid-America Print Council Members Exhibition, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI. In the next academic year, he is scheduled to do a Paper Arts Series Workshop and Exhibit at the new Paper Discovery Center in Appleton. Joe continues to serve as Executive Officer and Research Director for D’UVA Fine Artists Materials, Inc. Placitas, NM.
• Ester Fajzi-DeGroot, collections manager of the Wriston Art Galleries. This year Ester helped coordinate and install 11 exhibitions at the Wriston Art Galleries. She also curated an exhibit in the Leech Gallery using the New Guinea Sepik collection of the Lawrence Anthropology Department. In March she went on a two-week backpacking trip through Belize and eastern Guatamala, visiting several Mayan archaeological sites, including the well-known Tikal in Guatamala. For the upcoming academic year, she will be the acting curator of the Wriston Art Galleries.
• Carol Lawton, professor of art history, has just completed Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora, a booklet in the Agora Picture Book series of concise guides to various aspects of Greek society and culture illustrated through discoveries in the excavation of the civic center of classical Athens. In January Carol served as the discussant for a panel of international experts on votive plaques held at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Boston. This summer she returned to Athens to continue working on her book on the votive reliefs from the Agora Excavations. At the Honors Convocation in May, she was named the Ottilia Buerger Professor of Classical Studies, a professorship endowed by the late Ottilia Buerger, ’38, who also donated to Lawrence her extensive collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins.
• Frank C. Lewis, director of exhibitions and curator of the collections of the Wriston Art Center Galleries, was invited to give a lecture to the Freshmen Studies classes as a part of the Ando Hiroshige exhibition, which was included as a topic in the Winter Term Freshmen Studies classes. Additionally Frank traveled to Milwaukee, where he presented a talk to the Women’s Scholarship Association of Milwaukee. The subject of that talk was the La Vera Pohl Collection, which is an integral part of the permanent collection at the Wriston Galleries. Frank was asked to write an article on artist/quiltmaker Terese Agnew, a recipient of the Mary Nohl Foundation Artists’ Award, which will appear in an upcoming catalogue about Terese’s work. Working with sophomore art history major Kristi Sandven, Frank also produced a half-hour video tape featuring the work of Joe D’Uva, in conjunction with Professor D’Uva’s exhibition at the Wriston Galleries in the Winter Term. Frank is pleased to announce that he and his wife Michal Ann have finally finished some of the renovation work on their old Masonic Temple building, and that Michal Ann has officially opened her art and antiques gallery in the newly christened “ Temple Studio.”
• Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, assistant professors of photography, had their work included in “ A Decade of Art from the Wisconsin Academy Gallery” at the Watrous Gallery in the new Overture Center in Madison, in September 2004. Their “ Deep Dark and Around” exhibition of recent gum and platinum prints, tintypes and daguerreotypes at Wendy Cooper Gallery in Chicago in December was reviewed by Lyle Rexer for Art on Paper, March/April 2005, Fred Camper for the Chicago Reader, January 2005, and Kathryn Rosenfeld for artnet. The release of their book Season's Gleamings: The Art of the Aluminum Christmas Tree ( Melcher Media, New York, 2004) was covered by the New York Times, USA Today, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN and NPR in December 2004. The 1st edition sold out by the end of the year. In fall, the 2nd edition will be available along with seasonsgleamings.com, a forum website for aluminum Christmas tree stories, snapshots and info. In February, they gave a talk and exhibited “ One Million Years is Three Seconds,” their ongoing experimental documentary project about creation, order, and the lifelong accumulation of knowledge, at the Ripon College Caestecker Art Gallery, Ripon, WI. They were visiting artists at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in March 2005.
Julie and John hosted Sarah Kirk and Lisa Hostetler, Milwaukee Art Museum Curators of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, during their visit to Lawrence in May 2005, when Sarah Kirk presented a lecture titled “ Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity,”a topic pertinent to students in their Seminar in Photography.
Through donations and eBay purchases, Julie and John continued to upgrade the photography studio this academic year, with medium format camera kits, including a Hassselblad and Mamiya. An enlarger, timers and various darkroom accouterments were donated by Bob Damon of Fox Valley Technical College. These additions made advanced, individualized study increasingly possible in the Photography studio.
Following a nationwide search, Julie and John were appointed assistant professors of art beginning fall term 2005. In addition to the two Photography courses they have been teaching since spring 2000, they will teach two Digital Process courses, Drawing, Introduction to Studio Art, and Freshmen Studies. The Digital Process courses will be taught in a brand new interdisciplinary computational lab to be shared by chemistry, biology and studio art in Science Hall. The lab will be outfitted with 12 iMac G5 digital work stations, scanners and printers. Similar work stations will also be available at the Wriston Art Center.
• Colette Lunday Brautigam, visual resources library supervisor, attended the Midwest Visual Resources Association meeting in November. She also hosted a meeting of the Wisconsin Special Library Association. During the visit the SLA got to see what changes the visual resources library is going through in the transition from slides to digital images. Colette spent the year developing a database to catalog images that will eventually become part of a campus-wide image resource that will be useful to students and faculty in every department on campus. She also created four course reserve image pages for faculty in the Art and Art History Department and helped coordinate a scanning project in the Anthropology Department. In November Colette also coordinated a trial of ARTstor, a digital image repository of over 300,000 digital images. The library began to subscribe to ARTstor in January.
• Rob Neilson, assistant professor of art, is working on a number of public art commissions, including two here in Appleton: a large outdoor sculpture for St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and a project for the new Humane Association Facility. Currently he is working on a public sculpture for the Metro Pico/Aliso Light Rail Station, commissioned by the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority in California, as well as a project for the City of Long Beach, California. Closer to home, Rob is designing a piece for the Goodman Aquatic Facility in Madison and has just completed installation of a project in Lincolnwood, Illinois.
• Michael Orr, professor of art history, traveled to Japan and China again this year during spring break as one of the leaders of a study tour of the ancient capitals of Japan and China. Funded by a grant from the Freeman Foundation, the group visited the cities of Nara, Kyoto, X’ian and Beijing. Having traveled to Japan and China three times during the past two years, he is now developing a course on the traditional arts of China and Japan to be taught for the first time in 2005-06. He will be on sabbatical in the fall of 2005.
• Renee Reimer Ulman, studio art, ’94 and lecturer in art education , finished her Masters in Curriculum and Instructor with an emphasis on Creative Arts in Learning through Lesley University in December of 2004. She is teaching Drawing and Painting at Appleton North High School, where she has been for the last 6 of her 10 years of teaching. In addition to teaching at North, Renee is teaching the art education courses at Lawrence and says she is looking forward to teaching at her alma mater- even though it seems a little strange for her to now be the instructor and not the student. Renee is also president of the board of directors for Project Bridges Daycare. She lives in Appleton with her husband Chad, their 3-year-old daughter Sophie, and baby Georgia, who arrived in August.
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Arthur Thrall, professor emeritus of art, had a s olo exhibit at the Wenniger Gallery of Fine Art in Rockport, MA, in coordination with the Rockport Chamber Music Festival in June. Entitled "Graphic Improvisations," it consisted of hand-colored engravings and etchings. Arthur and Win were delighted to greet several Lawrence alumni at the two receptions, including Pam Johnson Fiske,'71, who lives in the area, and Jeff Riley,'68, architect of the Wriston Art Center, and his wife Karen from Connecticut. Allen West, LU professor emeritus of chemistry, and family also were there. Arthur had a print included in the Society of American Graphic Artists’ (SAGA)90th Anniversary Members Show at the Arts Student League, New York City, June 27 - July 30. This summer he also had w orks at the Potter's Wheel in Fish Creek, WI, and will have a solo show of paintings, etchings and engravings at New Visions Gallery of the Marshfield Clinicin Marshfield, WI, October 31 - November 29.
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A number of awards were presented to studio art and art history majors at the 2005 Honors Convocation:
The Jessie Mae Pate McConagha Prize, recognizing interdisciplinary scholarship in art history within the humanities, was awarded to Kathryn Marie Steiner, history/art history, ’05, for “persistent excellence in coursework, as well as innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that critically considered Aaron Douglas’s controversial relationship to American modernism, focusing in particular upon his African American identity and the overtly political nature of his artistic production.”
The E. Dane Purdo Award, given to an exceptional student in art or ceramics for summer study, was awarded to Jan M. Forte, studio art/anthropology, ’06, who was commended for “her dedication and for her conceptually consistent, compositionally sound narrative work.”
The Estelle Ray Reid Scholarship in Library Science, awarded to a female student planning to pursue the graduate study of library science, was given to Jessica Harris Bozeman, art history/voice, ‘05. An internship at the Newberry Library first piqued Jessica’s interest in librarianship and revealed that she loved the problem-solving inherent in developing and maintaining library collections. This year, as a library assistant in the Visual Resources Library, she helped digitize portions of the large slide collection, effectively combining her art historical knowledge with her desire to provide patrons with access to images. Jessica also won the Elizabeth Richardson Award, awarded to women excelling in studio art and art history, “in recognition of her exceptional performance in art history, her commitment and dedication to the discipline, and her promise for significant achievement in the field.”
The Elizabeth Richardson Award in studio art was given to Mary Anna Markowitz, studio art, ’05,“ in recognition of her singular dedication, strong work ethic, and determined pursuit of ideas and content made physical in a creative and meaningful manner. Mary possesses a unique combination of artist curiosity and professional tenacity that has taken her sculpture beyond campus and into the community.”
The Senior Art Prize for Men, awarded to men excelling in studio art or art history, was given to Zachary-John Reinardy, studio art/government, ’05,“ in recognition of his commitment to studio art and promise of significant achievement in the field. Excelling in a variety of media, Z-J has created work with a fine attention to craftsmanship and consistent aesthetic application. In addition, his ability to adapt to a variety of media has helped to develop his creative process.”
The Marjory Irvin Prize, awarded for excellence in piano performance as both soloist and chamber musician was given to Claire Elizabeth Mallory, art history/piano, ‘05. She was an Honorable Mention at the WMTA Collegiate Badger Competition last year. Her collaborative activities have included multiple performances of Schumann’s “Liederkreis,” including performances in Vienna and at Björklunden.
The following students graduated with honors:
cum laude: Elizabeth Aldag, studio art/psychology, Margaret Bryant, studioart, Emily Klosiewski, studioart minor, Mary Markowitz, studio art, Natasha Prouty, studioart, and Zachary-John Reinardy, studioart/government..
magna cum laude: Brigitte Boucher, studioart, Tanya Harsch, English, studio art minor,Amanda Loder, art history minor, Ian Love, art history minor, Elizabeth Spoden, art history minor, Kathryn Steiner, history, art history minor.
summa cum laude: Jessica Bozemann, art history/voice, and Julia Ruff, art history minor.
This year the following students were elected to honor societies:
Phi Beta Kappa: Jessica Bozeman, art history/voice,’05, Amanda Loder, art history minor, ’05, and Ian Love, art history minor, ‘05.
Mortar Board: Cora MacDonald, art history minor, ‘06.
The following majors and minors made the 2004-05 Dean’s List:
Brigitte Boucher, ’05, Jessica Bozeman, ’05, Margaret Bryant, ’05, Amanda Burgess, ’07, Danielle Dahlke, ’07, Sarah Driscoll, ’06, Jan Forte, ‘06, Isabel Garcia, ’06, Tanya Harsch, ’05, Emily Klosiewski, ’05, Amanda Loder, ’05, Ian Love, ’05, Claire Mallory, ’05, Mary Markowitz, ’05, Sandra Marks, ’05, Carly Monahan, ’07, Jennifer Murphy, ’06, Kate Negri, ’05, Shelby Peterson, ’06, Tatiana Plaxina, ’05, Natasha Prouty, ’05, Zachary-John Reinardy, ’05, Alyson Richey, ’06, Erik Rinard, ’07, Anna Sandven, ’07, Eliza Schultz, ’05, Alexis Sexton, ’05, Laura Sivert, ’05, Elizabeth Spoden, ’05, Kathryn Steiner, ’05, Clare Stielstra, ’08, Chelsea Wagner, ’07, Sara Wexler, ’08.
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1950’s
• Mary Ann Sanford, studio art, ’55, reports that she still paints for fun or to give a friend a gift.1960’s
• Charles Engberg, studio art, ’62. Charles was awarded the Estelle Reed Scholarship in 1962 for post-graduate work in the arts and received his Master of Architecture degree in 1967 from Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. He and his wife, Susan Herr Engberg , LU '62, have two children, Siri Engberg, art history/English, ’89, and Gillian Engberg, LU ’92. Charles and Susan now live and work in Milwaukee, WI. Susan continues her writing under the name Susan Engberg, and Charles has a growing architectural practice. On the Lawrence campus, he has designed the expansion of the Conservatory of Music and the remodeling and restoration of the Memorial Chapel. His firm, Engberg Anderson Design Partnership, founded in 1987, has grown to 60 persons and has designed almost 1400 projects nationwide, with most of the work being in the public sector. Charles has also taught intermittently and served as a guest design critic at the University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He says he has chosen a field in which mature practitioners can work as long as they are able, and at the age of 65, feels more able than ever, and looks forward to many more exciting design challenges. He wrote that the Lawrence professor who had the greatest influence on him was Charles Mattoon Brooks, Jr., then Chairman of the Art Department, a gifted and nurturing teacher with great appetites for pleasure in all things intellectual and sensual. Charles said his most fulfilling design has been the joint venture with Susan in creating and nurturing their daughters, whose successes, with the help of their generation of Lawrence mentors, has led them into careers that combine, oddly enough, the world of art and the life of the mind, with "Google" credits that surpass their parents’.• Pam Berns, studio art, ’69. This year Pam celebrated 20 years of publishing her magazine, Chicago Life. She says she finds the publishing world fascinating and loves reading, designing and writing after many years of painting and exhibiting.
1970’s
• Catherine Tatge, studio art/theatre and drama,’72, is currently working on the third season of a PBS series on the visual arts, Art in the 21 st Century. The four-part series will be aired nationally on PBS this fall.
• Pam Brown Day,studio art, ’75, is currently teaching beginning etching at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. She has been a student and a member of the Art League Gallery and Bin Gallery there for over 20 years. Pam regularly appears in juried shows there as well, and was selected to appear in a juried print show at the 222 Gallery in Leesburg, VA in February 2005. She has spent 25 years in the editorial/publication department of the Aerospace Medical Association and has also had several opportunities to travel to Italy in recent years, which she said was very inspirational.
1980’s
• Elizabeth Austin Asch, studio art/religion, ’81. After a nine-year hiatus to have children, Elizabeth has started exhibiting again. Her work was in a two-person show in Indianapolis in 2004, and she has a solo show scheduled this year in Florida. Examples from her series of miniatures will appear in the upcoming issue of Plenty Magazine. Elizabeth is currently working on a stained-glass installation, which uses her unique brand of painting: suspending reflective materials such as holographic foils, mica and aluminum powders in clear acrylic medium and layering it onto transparent acrylic blocks. She has moved back from Paris, France, where her family lived for ten years, to Hanover, NH, where their children are in school. Elizabeth says they continue to travel a lot, and that she and her husband enjoying chasing down Baroque paintings. They will spend half of this summer in Italy, south of Florence, where she works closely with an old Italian cabinetmaker, with whom she frames her current works. • Ann Kohl-Re,studio art, ’83, is teaching art at Lincoln Middle School in La Crosse, WI. In addition to her teaching duties, Ann is the director of the Lincoln Middle Art Gallery.• Denise Crouse, studio art, ’84, says this has been a great year for her. After she stayed at home with her daughter Nora for 5 years, she was hired as Program Director and Communications Manager at Appleton Art Center. Her husband, Jody Vanesky, studio art '84, also works at Appleton Art Center as Education Director. Denise states the Appleton Art Center is a great cultural art organization offering fine art exhibits, studio art classes for children and adults, and some great special events like the annual Art in the Park. She curated the exhibit entitled “ART WOMAN: Images of Women, Created by Women,” which opened in August.
• Pamela O’Donnell, art history, ’85, returned to graduate school in 2000, earning an M.A. in Library and Information Studies in August 2002 and a second M.A. in Communication Arts-Media and Cultural Studies in May 2003. She is currently an Associate Academic Librarian at the College Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and would love to hear from former classmates and student employees at pkodonnell@wisc.edu.
• Pamela Callahan, studio art, ’88. Pamela married her longtime partner John Walte in October '04 on the land they now call home in rural southwestern Wisconsin. Their studio is on the edge of woodlands overlooking Otter Creek. She writes that they are both embarking on a creative path, along with learning about the natural world around them, and states “It's awe-inspiring.” Their long-term goal is to have some cabins with studio space attached, for rent as artist retreat spaces. Pamela gives her best to all and may be contacted at www.ottercreekarts.com.
1990’s
• Kelly Anne Goode Tooker, art history/studio art, ’90, has been married 13 years and has two daughters, Maraya (11) and Elleah (9). Her husband, Bob, is a technical trainer for Cequent. Kelly is a full-time stay-at-home mother, but manages to coordinate the elementary art program at her daughters' school. She also organizes and teaches the volunteers, as well as teaches four classes herself in 2nd, 3rd and 5th grades. Kelly also works with the media specialist on other projects, such as the school art show and a granted after-school program for 2005-2006. She says she enjoys gardening, and that she and her husband have plans to build a studio in their garden area next year.
• Megan Burdick-Grade, studio art, ’90. This past year, Megan and her family moved to a new home in Appleton. She continues to work part-time as a marriage and family counselor and art therapist. Megan is also busy caring for their three children; the youngest was born April 28, 2004 and is named Dillon Walter.
• Amy Seidenbecker, art history, ’91, is a project manager for a sign company in Chicago. Amy states she is fortunate to draw upon her interest and experience in graphic design, art and history in her job. The business is 110 years old, and has done signage in old buildings downtown, as well as newer ones, for decades. She still enjoys photography and shooting landscapes and nature, and her travels. Amy also sings with a choir that performs once a year at Symphony Center with an orchestra and soloists. Along with that she also keeps up with U.S. and global environmental issues, and has lobbied in Washington DC for Illinois senators and representatives.
• Molly Arnason, art history/French, ’92. Last summer Molly moved from Boston to Minneapolis. Her husband is a full-time graduate student, and Molly teaches French at The Blake School. She says it’s fun to be in the Twin Cities again: nice people, less traffic, and Lienie's on tap. : )
• April Eisman, art history/English, ’94, has just finished a 14-month fellowship in Berlin (The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies) at the Freie Universitaet, which has enabled her to do significant research for her dissertation, "Bernhard Heisig and the Cultural Politics of East German Art." In August, she returned to the University of Pittsburgh, where she will teach an 'Intro to Art History' course while writing up her dissertation, which she hopes to defend in fall of 2006. This past year she published an article, “A ‘US American’ View of Bernhard Heisig.” April also put together a panel for the September 2005 German Studies Association conference, for which she will also present a paper. The panel is entitled: “Western (re)visions of East German Culture: GDR Literature, Music and Art after the ‘Wende.’” Her paper is entitled, "Deconstructing the 'Staatskuenstler' Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting."
• Nikki Roberg, art history, ’94, will be moving to Bloomington, Indiana in the fall to begin a Masters Program in Information Science at Indiana University's school of Library and Information Science. She received a merit scholarship to study there, which includes a position working in the school's Digital Library Program. You can reach her at nikkiroberg@gmail.com.
• Shad Wenzlaff, art history/music, ’94, will be teaching an art history survey course at Beloit College in fall 2005. Shad is currently living in Madison, WI.
• Jami Severson Severstad, art history , ’ 95 , has been Curator of Permanent Collections at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum since October, 2002. Jami said that this past year has been a hectic one as the Museum prepared to host the Paperweight Collectors Association Convention, an international gathering of collectors and scholars that took place in May. In preparation for this, she traveled to Massachusetts, Texas, and up the Californina coast in recent months, visiting PCA chapters and collectors to borrow objects for the two exhibits that she curated especially for the convention. Jami also reinstalled all of the 2300 paperweights in the museum’s collection. During the convention, she gave two presentations and hosted six different “hands-on” sessions for collectors to investigate pieces from the collection more closely.
• Deanna Jones Duffy, art history/French, ’96, is continuing to teach high school French. Deanna said this year was exciting as she was awarded an overseas study scholarship through the French Embassy that only 40 teachers in the US were selected to receive, and through it she spent the month of July in France with all expenses paid. It was an immersion program, but she also took classes on using technology in the classroom.
•Andrea Morrill, art history, ’96, has been living in Saint Louis, MO and working as an educator at the Saint Louis Art Museum for almost a year and a half. In May 2005, she took part in a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Museums. The session was entitled "Teaching Museum Teachers: Issues in Undergraduate Preparation of Museum Educators."
• Joy Gerrits Vertz, studio art, ’96, has opened her own photography studio called Shoot the Moon (www.stmphoto.com) located in the Milwaukee area, which specializes in expressive portraits of children and infants. She also does selective corporate clients and has shot people such as Michael Redd of the Milwaukee Bucks.
• Erin Wade, studio art, ’98, is currently living in Chicago and teaching art in a high school in the city.
• Heather Humbert Price, studio art, ’98, is living in Minneapolis with her husband First Lt. Dan Price, LU ‘99, and five cats. She works as a Research Assistant for RBC Capital Markets and shares a cube with Trent Lunder, LU ’99. Heather remarks, “Small world!” She is still painting and planning to apply to graduate school for the '06 school year. She had her own show at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center (an hour east of Fargo) in October and hopes to display it in other galleries closer to home. Heather says that as Dan (or Lieutenant Dan as she affectionately refers to him) gears up to head to Iraq, she is preparing to paint her blues away in his absence. She invites you to drop her an e-mail at: heather_lenea@hotmail.com.
• Elizabeth Athens, studio art, ’99. Betsy recently completed her M.A. in art history at Williams College. She wrote her M.A. qualifying paper on Thomas Eakins and, in recognition of its excellence, was awarded the Clark Research and Academic Program Fellowship. She has accepted a position in the American Art department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she began work in August.
• Ben Tilghman, art history, ’99, is at Johns Hopkins University, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in medieval art history. Last fall he was a TA for Introduction to Western Art and got his first chance to have full control of a classroom, which he said was a lot of fun. In May he passed his qualifying exams and now he says has entered that frightening limbo of ABD. This summer he began work on his dissertation, which will be on Irish manuscripts of the 7th-10th centuries, and received a grant to travel to Ireland to do some research and attend a conference. He is also doing preparatory work for classes on medieval Irish and Anglo-Saxon art and on ornament, which he hopes to teach in the near future. In the meantime, he is running a stand at the local farmer's market for Atwater's Bakery, where Darran White,LU '01, is a pastry chef. Ben and Darran were married on September 17.
• Molly Munson, studio art, ’99, is in graduate school at UCLA, pursuing a Master of Architecture degree. June of this year marked the end of her second of three years in the program.
2000’s
• Beth Zinsli, history/art history, ’02, was recently accepted into the graduate program in art history at UW Madison.
• Dan Leers, art history, ’02, recently completed work on the Stanley Kubrick Archive at The Museum of the City of New York, where he was a LOOK Project Assistant. The March 2005 issue of Vanity Fair included an extensive article on the significance of these photographic archives. After traveling during the months of July and August, he began graduate work at Columbia University in New York for the fall. There he will pursue an M.A. in Modern Art History: Curatorial Studies, which will include an internship at the Whitney Museum of Art.• Melanie Kehoss, studio art, ’02, had an exhibition entitled “SUM: A Second First Year Show” at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in February, 2005. In July Melanie and Jennifer DeCarlo showed their 2½-D works “HANG-IN’” at the 734 Gallery in Madison, WI.
• Julia Brucker Majors, German/art history, ’03. In the fall of 2004, Julia began her M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies at Tufts University in Boston. She is currently preparing to take her comprehensive exam in September. Julia is also working on her first qualifying paper, which will focus on the role of dancers in German Expressionist graphic works.
• Amelia Adams Grounds, art history, ’03, s ince leaving Lawrence has completed an M.A. with distinction in Late Medieval Studies at York University's Centre for Medieval Studies in the United Kingdom. She wrote on the relationship of text and image in a fifteenth-century book of hours in York and presented a version of her thesis at the Tenth Annual York Manuscript Conference in July. Amelia was married to Matthew Grounds on November 13, 2004 at Lake Tahoe, Nevada. They are currently living in York. Matt is working on his Ph.D. in computer science, and Amelia is working as a library assistant for York Minster Library.• Anjalee Miller, studio art, ’03, will attend the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA in the fall of 2005. She is pursuing a B.A. in Museum Studies.
• Beth Mensing, art history, ’03. After a five-month period at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI as a curatorial intern, Beth returned to Des Moines, IA to work for Iowa State University, Polk County Extension. She has been facilitating various youth development programs for the past year, including a ropes challenge course, and planning a portion of the Des Moines Arts Festival.
• Courtney Lind, art history/studio art, ’03, was accepted to Brainco, the Minneapolis School of Advertising. Brainco is a newly established school in Minneapolis focusing on art direction, branding, media arts, writing and more. In June she started the Masters level program in Interactive Design.
• Patricia Lindquist, studio art/art history, ’03, began graduate work in art history at UW Madison in fall 2005.
• Sarah Sager, studio art, ’03, has been living in Tucson, AZ since graduation. She is currently working as an environmental scientist with Western Technologies and had been working in their soils laboratory for almost a year when she was asked to join their environmental department. Sarah says she couldn't be more pleased with her job and gets to travel all over southern Arizona for site reconnaissance work. She still draws and paints in her spare time.
• Trish O'Donnell, studio art, ’03, teaches photography and art at Shawno Community High School in Shawno, WI, where she also recently bought her very first home. Trish was back on campus this June to attend the Mielke Seminars, some of which were held at the Wriston.
• Jessica Kullander, Spanish/studio art, ’04, was married on September 25, 2004. She worked this past year as a teacher's assistant at a bilingual school. In February, a piece from her senior show, "Virgen de Guadalupe" was accepted for a juried show of religious art in Minneapolis. Jessica says that more recently her 'art' has focused on remodeling the kitchen and painting their 'new' old house.
• Lauren Semivan, studio art, ’04, worked with the summer 2005 Assistant Residency Program at Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, NJ. This fall, she will continue her photography coursework toward an M.F.A.at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
•Jessica Bozeman, art history/voice, ’05, will began pursuing a joint graduate degree in library science and art history at Indiana University this fall. She hopes to pursue a career in art librarianship
• Emily Klosiewski, studio art, ’05. Emily’s black-and-white photographs that explore identity and surroundings were included in “The First Annual Art Minors Exhibition”at the Mudd Gallery on campus in May, where they attracted the attention of Appleton Art Center Program Director Denise Crouse (a Lawrence alum herself, studio art ‘84). Denise invited Emily to submit her work for the “ART WOMAN” exhibition, to be held there in August and September, 2005.
• Alexis Sexton, art history, '05, began work on her M.A. in art history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this fall.
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2004-2005 Exhibition Schedule
September 24 – November 7
Leech & Hoffmaster Galleries
Recent acquisitions
Kohler Gallery
“Domino/Dominó” a mixed media installation by Bibiana Suárez
November 19 -- December 19
Leech Gallery
Sepik Artifacts from the permanent collection
Hoffmaster Gallery
Ronald Gonzalez, sculpture
Kohler Gallery
An installation by Jane Marsching
January 21 – March 13
Leech Gallery
“Impressions of the Floating World,” prints by Ando Hiroshige
Hoffmaster & Kohler Galleries
“cubscoutyears,” prints by Joe D’Uva
April 1 – May 15
Leech Gallery
“Images of the Modern City”
Hoffmaster Gallery
“Guys & Dolls: Gender in American Art”
Kohler Gallery
A site specific installation by Mark Klassen
May 27 – August 7
Annual Senior Exhibition
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Wriston Art Center Galleries would like to thank the following individuals who donated funds and works of art to our galleries in the last year, between July 2004 and June 2005:
■ Ronald Gonzalez: two sets of sculptures.
■ Steven Myers, LU ’63: twenty works on paper by contemporary Japanese artists (Clifton Karhu, Reika Iwami, Toko Shinoda, Tokio Miyashita, Eiichi Shibuya, Tsuyoshi Yayanagi, Shigeki Kuroda, Shigeru Taniguchi, Y. Yuse, Z. Mori, Naoko Matsubara, and Yoshio Sekine.)■ Ben (professor emeritus of English) and Kay Schneider: a watercolor “Church at Bergat, Yugoslavia” by Thomas Dietrich, and an etching “Cutting Fodder” by John E. Costigan.
■ Brother Ken Stewart: an antique religious icon, a silver Ethiopian cross, a bronze plaque by Egino Weinert of Germany, and a Tau cross from Nicaragua.
■ Purchase award for the Past and Present Particle exhibition at the Mudd Gallery, May 5-22, 2005: Jeff Davis,studio art/mathematics, ’94, “Supermarket,” c-print on sintra, and ZJ Reinardy, studio art/government, ’05, “At the Big House,” silver gelatin print.
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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, P.O. Box 599, Appleton, WI 54912-0599 - (920) 832-6988.
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In September of last year the Department of Art and Art History opened its own student-run art gallery: The Mudd Gallery. Located in a converted space on the third floor of the Seeley G. Mudd Library, the project was initiated by Professors D’Uva and Neilson with the generous support of Susan Richards, Pete Gilbert and the entire library staff.
During the 2004-05 school year there were 9 exhibitions, ranging from group and solo student installations, student curated shows, juried exhibitions, an inaugural exhibition featuring national artists and a student/alumni show in commemoration of President Beck Installation as the 15th President of Lawrence.
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To reach us by e-mail, start with the username listed below and then add @lawrence.edu for:
colette.brautigam
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