Lawrence University

The Wriston Art Center Newsletter

June 1995 Issue 1 Art Department, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911
Tel: 414/832-6621 FAX: 414/832-7362 e-mail: Carol.J.Davis@Lawrence.edu

INTRODUCTION
Carol Lawton, Chair, Art Department

This is the first of what we hope will be an annual newsletter to keep you up to date on the activities of the Wriston Art Center and the Lawrence Art Department, its faculty, students, and alumni/ae. For the first issue we have tried to summarize the news that has come to us informally in the course of this year, and we apologize if with this haphazard method we have left anyone out. For next year's newsletter we are actively soliciting news from you. Please send your news by mail, e-mail, FAX, phone or, better yet, deliver it in person to C.J. Davis, editor of the newsletter, or to any member of the Art Department faculty or staff.
For your convenience, our e-mail addresses are listed on the last page of the newsletter.

• Alice Case, lecturer in studio art, has just returned from Chicago, where she took a course introducing instructors of computer-assisted art to new graphics programs. This year she has shown her work at Coe College, Bennington College, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, where her drawings received a merit award, the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay, the North Shore Art League National in Chicago, and the Waterstreet Gallery in Milwaukee. She was recently invited by Scholastic Magazines to be the drawing juror for the Wisconsin Scholastic Art Awards. She continues to review publications in drawing and art education for Collegiate Press and Brown and Benchmark.

• C.J. Davis, secretary of the Art Department, will assume responsibility for editing the Wriston Art Center Newsletter.

• Hank De Ricco joined the department as visiting assistant professor of studio art while Todd McGrain was on leave in term III. Hank is a sculptor/installation artist. He teaches design and drawing at Jersey City State College. He has had major exhibitions across the country, with work supported by the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krassner Foundation and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

• Helen Klebesadel, assistant professor of studio art, had solo exhibitions at Alma College, Evergreen State University, Monmouth College, and the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, two-person exhibitions at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago and the University of Wisconsin- Platteville, as well as group exhibitions, including an exhibition on artists' books in the Seniwati Sanggar Gallery in Ubud, Bali. Since 1994 she has been president of the Women's Caucus for Art. In September, 1995 she will lead a delegation of some 100 women in the arts from the United States to China to participate in an international women's conference in conjunction with the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women.

• Carol Lawton, associate professor of art history and current chair of the art department, curated the exhibition "Bearers of Meaning: the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins," the inaugural showing of the extensive collection of coins given to Lawrence by Ottilia Buerger, '38, and edited the accompanying catalogue, with contributions by Lawrence faculty and students. This year she also published an article on Attic document reliefs in the journal Hesperia. For various projects on Greek reliefs she was awarded grants from the College Art Association and the American Philosophical Society, and as next year's recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship in Classical and Byzantine Studies, she will be on leave in Athens, working on a book on reliefs from the excavations of the Athenian Agora.

• Todd McGrain, assistant professor of art, designed an interactive exhibit for the Fox Cities Children's Museum entitled "The A-Maze-Ing Heart." He states, "...the best thing about putting this all together is that I had to learn more about anatomy, the doctors had to learn more about sculpture, and we all had to learn to think like children." The exhibit began as a community effort spearheaded by Dr. John Mielke of Appleton Cardiology Associates. In term III, Todd participated in the Kohler Artist in Industry program in Kohler, Wisconsin. This program encourages artists to use state-of-the-art Kohler facilities, equipment and supplies. Summer '94 found Todd in the Netherlands looking at art and doing research; summer '95 will find Todd in his Appleton studio creating more art.

• Pamela O'Donnell (art history '85) recently became the gallery and collection assistant at the Wriston Art Center Galleries, in addition to her position as visual resources librarian.

• Michael Orr continues to work on the illustrative programs accompanying the Hours of the Virgin in English books of hours and has recently embarked on an ambitious project with three other scholars to produce a series of finding lists for all illustrations in English manuscripts, c. 1380- c.1525. During the past year he published two papers: "The Hours of Elizabeth the Queen: Evidence for collaboration between English Illuminators and an Artist from the Gold Scrolls Group," in Flanders in a European Perspective. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Louvain, and a short essay on Byzantine coins in the exhibition catalogue Bearers of Meaning. At the end of the year he was granted tenure, promoted to associate professor, and appointed chair of the Art Department.

• Tim Rodgers, assistant professor of art history, will switch to full- time teaching and relinquish his part-time post of curator in the fall. Tim presented three papers this year: one in New Orleans at the Southeastern College Art Conference entitled "Making Space: Georgia O'Keeffe in an American Place" and two lectures at the University of Kansas entitled: "Love, American Style: Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin and Charles Demuth" and "Selling Art in America."

• Charles Timm-Ballard joined the department this fall as the new Layton Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee and his M.F.A. at the University of Nebraska. He will have a solo exhibition of his ceramic sculpture at the Wriston Art Center in January 1996. This year, he has been juried into the following shows: Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York City; Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, California; the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, and the Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, Texas. Charles will be doing research in the Netherlands this summer. On the personal side, Charles, Dana, and 5-year-old Ada are expecting a new addition to the family.

• Anastasia Burkham, art history '97, has been accepted into the ACM Florence Program for the fall of 1995.

• Natalie Denton, studio art '96, has been accepted into the ACM Chicago Semester in the Arts program for the fall of 1995.

• Deanna Jones, art history '96, gallery intern and art history tutor, spent Term I at the University of Besançon, France through Lawrence's affiliation with the Knox College Program. Deanna pursued study there in French language and culture. Before returning home, she spent two weeks traveling throughout Europe.

• Jennifer Kosloski, studio art '95, was the recipient of Outstanding Senior Women's Award at Honors Convocation on May 18, 1995.

• Bill Lee, art history '96, has been awarded a summer internship at the Cloisters in New York. He is one of eight interns chosen nationally from over 260 applicants. Bill was also elected to Mortar Board and accepted into the ACM Florence Program for the fall of 1995.

• Dawn Eden Martin, Bridget Nalls, and Renee Reimer, studio art '94, have received certification to teach art in Wisconsin.

• Kerry McNaughton, studio art and anthropology '96, has a summer project in Hungary doing research with the University of North Carolina Anthropology Department. Kerry's research will involve interviews to discover how the new political system in Hungary will affect traditional values. Kerry was also accepted in the ACM Florence Program for the fall of 1995.

• Amy Mechowski, art history '96, is completing her junior year abroad, studying art history at the University College London.

• Sujata (Suzi) Paul, studio art '95, has accepted a management training position with Quad Graphics, Milwaukee.

• Jami Severson, art history '95, and Bridget Lamers-Van Zeeland, studio art '95, received the Elizabeth Richardson Awards in art at the Honors Convocation on May 18.

• Robert Smart, studio art '96, has accepted an internship in graphic arts at the Creative Company in Madison, Wisconsin for the summer of 1995.

• Erica Tryon, art history '96 and gallery intern, presented a lecture, "Portrait of Depression-Era Americanism via the art of Grant Wood" in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition "Heartland: Visions of the American Farm" in November, 1994 at the Wriston Art Center Galleries. She conducted the research for this lecture with an ACM Minority Scholarship during summer 1994.

• Iona Yabut, studio art '97, has been accepted into the ACM Chicago Semester in the Arts program for the fall of 1995.

Dean's List: 14 students from the Art Department made the 1993-94 Dean's List: Nathalie Chatelain, Jennifer Eberly, Carolyn Joslyn, John Kokoszka, Jennifer Kosloski, William Lee, Eden Martin, Carrie Naumann, Renee Reimer, Jami Severson, Heather Sigl, Robert Smart, Erica Tryon, Aaron Wax.

The 1995 Annual Art Majors Picnic was held in Peabody Park, Appleton on May 31st. The Art Department faculty took to the barbeque and over 40 studio and art history majors were in attendance.

• Nalin Advani, studio art '88, had a solo exhibition of his shadow art installation at the Yokohama branch of Nippon Credit Bank in July 1994. In addition to his installation activities, Nalin is a Sogetsu School ikebana artist and involved with the development of multimedia software. He is the communications director for the School of the Arts in Yokohama, Japan.

• Molly Arnason, art history and French '92, spent six months as a teaching assistant in France after graduation and is currently teaching French at Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire.

• Morgan Baird, art history '93, is doing graduate work in art history at Boston University. As a member of the Alumni Board of Directors, he recently visited campus and participated in "Following their Footsteps," an alumni career fair.

• Dan Barry, studio art '94, is attending graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Anne Baruth, studio art '91, teaches art at St. Joseph Middle School in Appleton.

• Tina Bergh and Andrew Robbins, studio art '93, married last summer and are currently living in University City, Missouri. Tina is working in a jewelry store where she spends half her day in sales and the other half working with the owner learning art metals and repair techniques. She is also taking a class in gemology , and continues to do her art, with an eye toward pursuing graduate studies sometime in the future. Andrew is doing computer graphics at a company called Engravings Unlimited. He is also continuing to work on his comic books, and expects to be reviewed in the Comic Book Journal sometime soon.

• Kendra Boettcher, art history and flute '94, has just completed one year of graduate school in flute at the University of North Texas. She misses her intern work at the galleries, but says the Texas weather is great!

• Kristin Brainard, art history '94, will attend graduate school in art history in the fall.

• Amey Chapel, studio art '92, recently returned from Los Angeles, where she taught art in a private school. She is now teaching art in the parochial school district of De Pere, as well as working with the tribal schools in their outreach program.

• Patrick Conlon, government '94, has just been accepted into the BFA program at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

• Denise Crouse, studio art '85, is the communications specialist for Lutheran Social Services and serves on the Board of Directors of the Appleton Art Center.

• Jeffrey Davis, studio art '94, is doing graduate work at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

• Roger Duncan, studio art '94, is a photographer for City Year, a youth organization in Chicago.

• Liz Dvorak, studio art '88, and Laurie Wirtz, studio art '89, are partners in a jewelry-making business in Wilmette, Illinois.

• Michael Fendry, studio art '87, received the Ameritech Teaching Award for outstanding teaching in Milwaukee last fall.

• Megan Burdick Grade, studio art '90, has just received a degree in art therapy from the College of Notre Dame,Belmont, California.

• Vicki Grissman, studio art '90, is teaching art at Jannsen Elementary School in Combined Locks. One of her students recently won first place in the Paper Arts Festival poster contest for all students in the Fox Cities. In late October, Vicki will marry Dean Lamers, a physical education teacher in Kimberly.

• Jim Hempel, biology '90,shared his drawing skills with Ms. Case's figurative drawing class during a workshop session in term III.

• Rob Kartholl, studio art '94, is living in Chicago and travelling. He recently rafted the Colorado River.

• Sherrill Weller Knezel, studio art '91, is an art educator in the Shorewood suburb of Milwaukee.

• Diana (Jia-yi) Ling, studio art and physics '94, is attending graduate school in physics at the University of Kansas. She will travel to China in the fall as a member of a delegation representing young women in the arts in the United States.

• Jennifer Lozada, studio art '94, spent the last year in the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee nursing program, but has moved to Chicago where she plans to pursue studies in performance art.

• Kathleen (Kate) Metzger, classics '94, will begin graduate work in art history at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee in the fall. She has been awarded a teaching assistantship.

• Tiffany Mullen, art history and English '89, is studying medicine at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. Karla Mullen, Tiffany's mother, received the 1995 Lawrence Award for Outstanding Teaching in Wisconsin. Lawrence graduating seniors nominate a high school teacher for this award. Two teachers are chosen annually. Mrs. Mullen teaches English at Watertown Senior High School.

• Sally Newlin, studio art '87, teaches art at Lincoln and Ferber elementary schools in Appleton and in the Arts Kaleidoscope program at the Lawrence Arts Academy in the summer. Her daughter, Heather, is a freshman at Lawrence this year.

• Brady Nichols, studio art '92, is doing graduate work in printmaking at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Brady has just returned from a motorcycle tour of the Adirondack Mountains, New York, and Canada.

• Deirdre Olson, studio art '90, is the owner of Deidre Handcrafted Jewelry, Minneapolis.

• Kelli Gustman Prast, studio art '87, has recently taken a leave of absence from the Appleton Public Schools to stay at home with her newly adopted child.

• Tim Riley, art history '92, is a lecturer and administrative assistant at the Cloisters in New York City. Among the programs he has given there are Music and Medieval Art, which he designed and conducted with the Ensemble for Early Music, a children's play based on the medieval legend of St. Nicholas, and a staging of the 13th-century Spanish epic poem El Poema de Fernan Gonzalez, also with the Ensemble for Early Music and with the help of Tony Alioto, music '93.

• Julie Rodemeier, studio art and German '93, is doing graduate work in art history at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.

• Stephanie Samuels, studio art '89, pursues her art through a small business venture with her family and works in a public library in suburban Chicago. She is very active in alumni affairs and participated in Career Fair 1995.

• Betsy McNeely Scafati, studio art '85, is a computer artist for Viacom in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

• Eileen Sliwinski, studio art '87, art educator in the Milwaukee school district, recently had her students participate in "Destinations," a Milwaukee school district program.

• Edmond (Ted) R. Sutherland III received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin.

• Kelly Swett, art history and anthropology '93, is in her second year of graduate school in art history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was recently awarded the Frances M. Schwartz Fellowship of the American Numismatic Society in New York, where she will work this summer.

• Patrick Tassoni, studio art '94, is pursuing a graduate degree in education at De Paul University.

• Lavell Tyler, studio art '94, will begin graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall.

• Jody Vanesky, studio art '84, is the director of education for the Appleton Art Center.

• Terri Terwilliger Westby, studio art '81, is teaching art education at the Horizons and Jefferson schools in Appleton. She is married to Alan Westby, director of the Fox Cities Children's Museum, and is undertaking the supervision of Alice Case's student teachers placed in the Appleton school district.

• Lauren Wetzel, anthropology '94, is an administrative assistant at the Milwaukee Art Museum/West, recruiting teachers for the museum's adult and children's art classes.

• Megan White, art history '85, is in the design program of the California College of Arts and Crafts.

• Byung Sun Bobby Yun, studio art and biology '92, is currently attending the University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison.

Hmong Artistry: Preserving a Culture
9 September - 23 October 1994
A group exhibition featuring Hmong textile art or needlework referred to as pajntaub. The galleries presented a video on paj ntaub prior to the opening of the exhibition.

Heartland: Visions of the American Farm
4 November-4 December 1994
From the art collections of Lawrence University and the University of Minnesota, images of the American farm that examine its symbolic and cultural importance.

With the Media, Against the Media
13 January - 12 March 1995
Art by Terry Braunstein, Jack Butler, Robert Heinecken and Joyce Neimans that consists of images selected from the printed media and later juxtaposed and recombined to create new iconography.

Bearers of Meaning: Coins from the Ottilia Buerger Collection
7 April - 21 May 1995
The first comprehensive showing of Lawrence University's Ottilia Buerger collection of ancient coins. The Marguerite Schumann Memorial Lecture: "Reading Meanings on Greek and Roman Coins" was presented by Thomas R. Martin , professor of classics, College of the Holy Cross, and councillor, American Numismatic Society, at the opening of the exhibition. Contributors to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition included Professors Lawton, Orr and McGrain of the Art Department, and art history majors Kristin Brainard, '94, Rebecca Browning, '93, Jonathan Greene, '93, Rebecca Luhmann, '93, Tim Riley '92, Jami Severson, '95, and Kelly Swett, '93.
In April 30 sixth-grade students from the TAG (Talented and Gifted) Program of the Appleton Public Schools attended special classes on the ancient coins.

Senior Exhibition
2 June - 5 August 1995
Annual exhibition of art work by Lawrence University's senior art majors.

Upcoming exhibitions are:

The Textiles of India: A Living History
22 September - 29 October 1995
A comprehensive collection of textiles that documents the life and culture of the people of India.

Whirligigs and Weathervanes
10 November-10 December 1995
An exhibition of fanciful whirligigs and weathervanes done by contemporary American artists.

Frederick Layton Visiting Professor: Charles Timm- Ballard
12 January-10 March 1996
A presentation of the recent work of Lawrence University's Frederick Layton Visiting Professor.

Centerbrook
29 March-12 May 1996
An exhibition of architecture projects produced by Centerbrook Architects that will include the Wriston Art Center.

Senior Art Exhibition
31 May - 3 August 1996
Annual exhibition of art work by Lawrence University's senior art majors.

Publications available from the Wriston Art Center Galleries:
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

All catalogues are available in the Wriston Art Center Galleries. For mail or credit card orders, please contact the Union Station Store, 615 E. College Ave., Appleton, WI 54912,Tel: 414/832-6832.

The Art Association, the department's student organization, has been very active this year. One of its accomplishments has been the creation of "Gallery Untitled," a student exhibition space located in the Writing Lab, Brokaw building. In February, it presented a talk by Lecturer/Artist Jill Ziccardi. On May 18th of this year, a silent auction of work by students and art department faculty was held in Riverview Lounge, Memorial Union, for the benefit of this organization.

The Arts Umbrella, a campus- wide organization devoted to the fine arts, presented a film, "The Panama Deception," winner of the 1992 Academy Award for Best Documentary, in the Wriston Art Center. In February, they also sponsored 3 episodes of ALIVE TV. This group also brought performance artist Holly Hughes to campus, where she both performed and participated in classes in the art and theatre departments.

B.G.L.A. (Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Association) sponsored a conference and film festival in the Wriston Art Center on February 18, 1995. Guest lecturer, John L. Quinlan, journalist, community activist, and gay/lesbian/bisexual community leader, presented opening remarks. The featured film , "The Wedding Banquet," directed by Ang Lee, Taiwan, China, won the Golden Bear Award, Berlin Film Festival, 1993 and Best Film, Best Director, Seattle International Film Festival 1993.

Downer Feminist Council sponsored "Women in Film" week series and "Independent Women's Film Series." It also sponsored a lecture by Assistant Professor of Art Helen Klebesadel during "Women in the Arts Week" in April 1995.

The Wriston Art Center hosts numerous documentaries and film festivals in the 1994/95 academic year. These series included the ACM India Film Series, the African Film Festival, IMAGE Film Series of current and classic American films and the Lawrence International Film Series. Amnesty International, BOS (Black Organization of Students) and Greenfire, the environmental organization, also showed films here.

The Fine Arts Colloquium sponsored two lectures in the Wriston Art Center this year. Eunice Lipton gave a talk on her recent book, Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire. Michael Plante, assistant professor of art history, Tulane University, gave a lecture entitled, "Painting the Closet: Gay Artists, Cold War Politics and the Subversion of Abstract Expressionism."

The Public Occasions Committee sponsored a talk by New York artist, Miriam Schapiro, in April, 1994 in the Chapel, which was followed by a book signing reception in the Art Center. This year Lawrence University will award an honorary doctoral degree to Ms. Schapiro.

• Alice.K. Case@lawrence.edu
  
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• Helen.Klebesadel@lawrence.edu
  
• Carol.L.Lawton@lawrence.edu
  
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• Pamela.K.O'Donnell@lawrence.edu
  
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• Charles.Timm-Ballard@lawrence.edu

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