Lawrence University

The Wriston Art Center Newsletter

October 1997 Issue 3 Art Department, Appleton, Wisconsin 54911
Tel. 920/832/6621 FAX 920/832/7362

OVERVIEW

• Alice King Case, lecturer in studio art and supervisor of art education, organized an intensive drawing weekend at Lawrence's recently renovated Door-county retreat, Björklunden, for her classes in drawing and computer-assisted art. Alice was also selected to be a drawing seminar leader for adult classes in Björklunden, summer 1997. From November to December 1996, Alice was featured in the Art Department Faculty Exhibition in the Wriston Art Center Galleries. From that exhibition, two major corporations purchased pieces of her work. Her recent work is taking a different direction and reflects the influence of the culture, colors, and texture of Mexico, where she has spent the last four winters, as well as her associations and studies with major artists of the east coast through her summer workshops at Bennington College. In April, Alice was selected to be the guest artist of the 17th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition sponsored by Secura Insurance Companies and the Appleton Center for the Arts. Alice was also selected by the Neville Museum in Green Bay to be the Juror for their 1997 Art Annual. The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah plans a solo exhibition of her artwork.
• Marilyn Holly Cohn, joined the department as Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art while Todd McGrain was on leave in term I. Holly taught Metalsmithing and Introduction to Studio Art classes. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her BA from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. She is a practicing artist and teacher at the Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin. Holly delivered a slide lecture entitled Words Put to Images: Images Put to Words which was followed by a solo exhibition, November to December 1996, in the Quirk Print Study Room, Wriston Art Center. The exhibit included painted metal wall pieces, retrospective metal work, and acrylic painting on wood.
• C. J. Davis, secretary of the art department and editor of this newsletter, wants to thank all who contributed their updates. It is important for art and art history students to know what paths our alumnae/alumni have followed and we all love to hear from you. The news gathering has become easier since our initial newsletter, and many of you have been accessing our website page designed by Professor Orr last year. Thank you again and keep those updates coming!
• Kate Hunt joined the department as Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art for terms II and III. Kate will remain for 1997-1998 academic year replacing Todd McGrain through his year's leave of absence from Lawrence. She taught Beginning and Intermediate Sculpture and Introduction to Studio Art classes. Kate received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomington Hills, Michigan. Her work in the public arena resulted in commissions from the Weisman Art Museum, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Nastech Corporation in Bennington, Vermont. Kate led a tour in a fall field trip that introduced students to behind-the-scene peeks at successful, commercial Chicago galleries. Kate's Beginning Sculpture students were given a class project of carving heads in clay, then casting multiples in plaster. The heads were then installed in four different sites around campus. In May, Kate gave a sculpture slide lecture on her own work entitled Two Heads are Better Than One in the Wriston Art Center Auditorium in May, followed by a reception and a showing of student work in the sculpture studio.
• Helen R. Klebesadel, associate professor of art, participated as faculty in the first annual Lawrence University Mielke Summer Institute, an innovative educational opportunity in the liberal arts for primary and secondary school teachers. In September, Helen and Tim Rodgers, together with Cheryl Meeker, assistant professor of studio art, Monmouth College, organized a Ford Foundation-sponsored ACM faculty development workshop, entitled "Expanding the Discourse in Art and Art History." Twenty art and art history faculty from the Associate Colleges of the Midwest Consortium schools attended the workshop at Björklunden, Lawrence University's center for adult education in Door County. In addition to her work on campus, Helen presented several talks on issues in the arts to various organizations including the Appleton AAUW, and the Madison Lawrence Alumni Club. Helen maintained an active exhibition schedule throughout the year. Her work was featured, along with other Lawrence studio art faculty, in the Sesquicentennial Art Department Exhibition at the Wriston Art Center Galleries last fall. She presented a solo exhibition at the Grace Chosy Gallery in Madison and group exhibitions in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Sarasota, and Shimonoski, Japan. The Sarasota exhibition "Deep Water" was featured in the spring 1997 issue of American Artist: Watercolor. An artist's essay in which she discussed her paintings, entitled "Musings: An Artist's Statement," was published in the spring 1997 issue of Feminist Studies Journal. Her book review, "Feminist Art as Critical Voice: New Books on Art and Aesthetics," was published in the spring 1997 issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly Review of Women's Studies Resources. Helen will be teaching a watercolor workshop this summer in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and plans to travel to Bern to research Paul Klee watercolors and prints at the Kunstmuseum with the support of a Lawrence University Faculty Research Grant.
• Carol Lawton, associate professor of art history, introduced a new course this year entitled The Art and History of Ancient Coinage, which provides students an opportunity to do hands-on research in the University's Ottilia Buerger coin collection. Her review of E. Vikela's Die Weihreliefs aus dem Athener Pankrates-Heiligtum am Ilissos: religionsgeschichtliche Bedeutung und Typologie appeared in the summer issue of the American Journal of Archaeology. With a research grant from Lawrence, Carol will return to Athens this summer to continue her research on the votive reliefs from the excavations of the Athenian Agora. She continues to serve on the Executive Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
• Todd McGrain, associate professor of studio art, received tenure at the end of academic year 1996/97. Todd was awarded the 1996/97 Guggenheim Grant which enabled him to renew himself artistically, travelling and spending time in his studio throughout this academic year. In addition to this, Todd has been invited to spend July, 1997 at the American Academy in Rome, Italy. Todd has been granted a one year leave of absence for 1997/98 to teach in the art department of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. His presence on campus will be missed next year, but the faculty, staff, and students of Lawrence University wish him well in his pursuits in New York.
• Pamela O'Donnell, gallery and collections assistant/visual resources librarian, curated the 19th century room in the first exhibition of this academic year, Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Significance of Art and Display. She also participated in a two-day intensive class in Photoshop techniques at the Fox Valley Technical College and hopes to apply her newly-acquired skills to color-correcting digitized images for the Visual Resources' Library's webpage. Pamela received a Technical Assistance Scholarship from the Midwest Museums' Conference and the Institute of Museum Services to attend a five-day workshop at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation in Mount Carroll, Illinois. Pamela and Nadine Wasserman learned to identify conservation concerns and practiced cleaning and mending damaged art work. As a follow-up, Pamela will participate in a panel at the Midwest Museums' Conference in Kansas City next September, discussing the benefits of this course..
• Michael T. Orr, associate professor of art history, spent terms I and III in London. Michael and his wife, Alyson Chapman, and son, David, welcomed Elizabeth Katherine Chapman-Orr into the family on February 16, 1997.
• Timothy R. Rodgers, associate professor of art history, received tenure at the end of academic year 1996/97. Tim joined Helen Klebesadel in planning the ACM workshop at Björklunden entitled Expanding the Discourse in Art and Art History in September, 1996.
• Charles Timm-Ballard, Frederick Layton visiting assistant professor of art, had a busy year. The European Ceramics Work Centre in The Netherlands offered Charles a work period assignment to take place summer 1998. In November, Charles participated in the Sesquicentennial Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Wriston Art Center Galleries. This was followed by a solo exhibition at the Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin which was covered in The Milwaukee Journal by James Auer, LU '50 and art critic for The Milwaukee Journal. Other exhibitions included the Hoyt National, Hoyt Institute of Fine Art, New Castle, PA.; Crafts National 30, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.; Feats of Clay, Lincoln, CA.; and the 11th Annual San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX. Charles won the third-place award from more than 1,500 entries in the Lincoln, California Arts Alliance Feats of Clay national ceramics competition.
• Nadine Wasserman, curator of the Wriston Art Center Galleries, received a Technical Assistance Scholarship from the Midwest Museums' Conference and the Institute of Museum Services to attend a five-day course in May at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation on the Care of Works of Art on Paper. Nadine also co-curated "Distraction," an exhibition sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council, with Edward Maldonado and Tina Wasserman. The exhibition took place April 25 - May 1, 1997, at TBA Exhibition Space in Chicago. Nadine has begun to write for the New Art Examiner and has reviewed "Sarah Whipple, Gary Cannone" at Hermetic Gallery (November 1996), "Larry Clark" at Milwaukee Art Museum (February 1997), "Slop's Supermarket" at 2040 Winnebago St., Madison (May 1997), and "In Memory of Pleasure" at John Michael Kohler Arts Center (June 1997). She has also written the brochure essay for Eunice Kambara's installation "Kiss of Life, Kiss of Death" for the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Perspectives Series.

Joshua Barney (Josh), studio art/art history '96, will begin the MA program in arts administration at the University of Oregon-Eugene this fall.

Dan Barry, studio art '94 and collagist/artist, was featured in The Milwaukee Journal in an article written by James Auer, theatre '50 and art critic for The Milwaukee Journal, covering a group exhibit at the Judy A. Saslow Gallery in Chicago in August, 1996. In October, Dan also exhibited his collage work at the Allen/Hein Gallery in The Historic Fox River Mills, Appleton.

Lisa A. Bingham, history '96, will begin the graduate program in Decorative Arts at Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York City, this fall. Lisa received a partial scholarship for this innovative program, which also coordinates internships at Christie's and Sotheby's auction houses while providing opportunity for study abroad.

Kendra Boettcher, art history/performance '94, writes that she "..survived BASIC TRAINING," but..."loves her job with the U.S. Army Band." Kendra's long-range goal is orchestra when her tour of duty is over; meanwhile, she enjoys the wide variety of music she plays with the Band, "...from marches, to show tunes, to jazz," and appreciates the opportunity to travel. Kendra makes her home in Glen Burnie, Maryland when the Band is not on the road.

Richard Burkett, studio art '73, Professor of Ceramics, San Diego State University, was one of the keynote speakers at the international Networks in Ceramics conference in Helsinki, Finland in June, 1996. His topic was ceramics on the Internet. Professor Burkett started the very first ceramics information server for artists on the Internet, the Ceramics Gopher, several years ago. It is now the CeramicsWeb and can be found at this URL: http://apple.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb/index.html or, using Netscape 2.0 or newer:

http://apple.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb/ceramicsweb.html

Jefferson ("Jeff") Gardner Davis, mathematics/studio art '94, exhibited in a dual show. The first part was an exhibition at The Interactive Bean, Chicago, entitled Jeff Davis Selected Prints, May 9-June 5, 1997. In conjunction with the print show was an exhibition on the Internet entitled Jeff Davis-Work for the Web. Jeff's Internet address is: www.fota.com/jeffdavis.html. (Note: When accessing the Internet, please leave off the period after html.) This past year Jeff has also exhibited at Circa Galleries and the Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago.

Adam Demers, art history '94, will attend graduate school this fall at the Minnesota College of Art and Design, arts administration program.

Roger Duncan, studio art '94, finished his first year at the Journalism Graduate School of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Photo Sequence Program. Roger is planning a career in photo journalism. Roger's address is: 1412 Westwind Drive, Apt. A, Columbia, Missouri 65202. He encourages current students/alums with an interest in photo journalism, photography, or art photos to contact him for information/resources in Chicago and Kansas City areas.

Jennifer Eberly, studio art '96, has spent the year in The Gambia,West Africa, for the Peace Corps teaching environmental and agricultural science at the local schools and giving advice to farmers beginning their dry-season gardens. Jennifer writes that she had a chance to spend the winter holidays in the Banjul area "..where the beaches and civilization are."

April Eisman, art history/English '94, will begin the MA program in modern art history at the Courtauld Institute, London in September, 1997.

Connie Ford, art history '96, and her daughter, Miranda Bouressa, art history/studio art '99, were featured in an Appleton Post-Crescent article on endowed scholarships from Lawrence. Both Connie and Miranda have benefitted from the Josephine Breneman Buchanan scholarship

which stipulates that it be awarded to a female student and the Harkins scholarship which is given to a Wisconsin student "oriented in his or her aspirations and activities to the service of others."

John A. Garrett, studio art '94, will be starting his MFA this fall at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.

Christopher Guenther, studio art '96, married Lynn Grissman in Appleton, July 1996.

James Hempel, biology '90, was juried into the 17th Annual Secura Exhibition in Appleton. Jim won First Prize for his large charcoal drawing, "Passing Thunderstorm." Jim has also shared his expertise and love of drawing with Ms. Case's Figure Drawing class this year.

Michael Ingala, studio art '96, writes that he is working as the webmaster at AthEnet, a local internet service provider, and also acts as their technical support technician. He feels he was hired "..mainly due to my art degree.." Mike has created web pages for two different businesses and will let us know when they are on the website.

Deanna Jones, art history '96, visited Greece this past year. Deanna continues to work with Young Life Ministries in Colorado.

Carolyn Joslyn, studio art '96, had two exhibitions in Madison this year. In May, she was featured at Le Mop Hair Studio, and in June she exhibited at The Linen Closet Gallery.

Robert ("Rob") Kartholl, studio art '94, is a volunteer with the Habitat for Humanity organization. Rob is working with the Task Force for the Homeless in Americus, Georgia and writes that he is being "..provided with a lot of experience - new skills and the opportunity to really hammer down on skills already acquired." In late April he and other volunteers from the Task Force traveled to New Mexico to visit the Navajo Nation and to take part in a large project building 10 traditional-style hogans using contemporary materials for 10 families. Rob is learning fund-raising skills to pay his way.

Jennifer Kosloski, studio art '95, is Michicot Public School's new elementary art teacher as of September, 1996. Jennifer writes that her school has a brand new art room, including a computer lab.

Andrew Kutchera, art history/Spanish '94, is working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the western regional office as an administrative assistant. Andrew is attending the Computer Arts Institute, Desktop Publishing program, which includes such software as Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Output for Electronic Publishers, and Web Page Design. Andrew also writes that he is taking figure drawing and introduction to architecture classes at the Berkeley extension in San Francisco. His eventual goal is to get a Masters of Architecture degree.

Bridget Lamers-Van Zeeland, studio art '95, finished her student teaching requirements for certification in art education and spent the summer months traveling throughout Europe. Brie spent 1996/97 visiting Kerry McNaughton, anthropology/studio art '96, in San Francisco. After returning to the Fox Cities, she began substitute teaching in the spring.

William (Bill) Lee, art history '96, has worked as a research consultant at the J.Paul

Getty Center, Santa Monica, CA., for the past year with Marilyn Low Schmitt, LU '60 and Lawrence trustee, at the Getty Art History Information Program (AHIP). Bill has been accepted into the Ph.D program in art history at Columbia University, New York.

Jiayi Diana Ling, studio art/physics '94, had a solo exhibition in April at Gallery II, Fine Arts Center, Washington State University-Pullman, entitled Sifting. Jiayi is completing her MFA program in art at Washington State University.

Dawn Eden Martin, studio art '94, and her husband, Richard Frontjes, returned to Portland, Oregon this year. Eden has been substitute teaching in the Portland public schools and surrounding districts. She hopes to become an apprentice to a master jeweler in the area, continues to paint, and sews in her spare time.

Megan McCaskey, German/studio art '94, will attend graduate school this fall in the University of Texas-Austin architecture program.

John Verl McNamara, studio art '90, was juried into the Greenwich Art Show in Rockford, Illinois, September, 1996. His exhibition was entitled Funktional Arts is John Verl McNamara. John started his own company combining art and furniture design. John's sister, Mary McNamara, studio art '99, is following John's footsteps in the art department.

Kerry McNaughton, anthropology/studio art '96, will apprentice with John Sheridan, a San Francisco woodworker and furniture maker.

Amy Mechowski, art history '96, worked for the Kamp Gallery, Winnetka, Illinois, summer '96 as a gallery intern. Amy entered the MA program in art history at University College, London in fall 1996.

David Meisel, studio art '86-'88, is a career advisor at the Art Institute of Seattle, marketing students and the school, and lecturing on different topics related to job searches. He is also a substitute teacher for the Industrial Design Department. On September 28, David was married to Deb Gross by her grandfather, Rabbi David Wice, in the Sculpture Garden of Martha's Vineyard. He wrote, "We will honeymoon in Turkey and Greece for 3 weeks where I will relive my classes in ancient art history...Finally, I will see in person what we have studied." David continues his art in wood block prints and had a show in the Pioneer Square gallery of Seattle. David is the creative director for an interior design magazine in Seattle. His first issue came out in January, 1997.

Kathleen (Kate) Metzger, classics '94, writes that her internship at the University of Oregon Museum of Art is challenging. She is on the research committee uncovering information about Gertrude Bass Warner, founder of the University of Oregon Museum of Art and collector of Asian art for UO Museum of Art's 65th Anniversary Exhibit. She is studying Asian art, history, and travel writings of China around 1900-1930 in connection with this project.

Juliet Moffat, art history '95, writes that she is working for J. Walter Thompson, a Chicago advertising firm, and enjoying "..lots of bright and fun colleagues."

Deirdre Olson, studio art '90, reported a name change for her jewelry business from "Deirdre Handcrafted Jewelry" to "Hearths Full of Love," and operates out of her studio/business in Minneapolis. She wants all to know her address: 4557 18th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407.

Benjamin Palchick, studio art '96, has been accepted into the Indiana University MFA-Painting program, and will be starting in the fall.

Sujata (Suzi) Paul, studio art '95, is still enjoying her administrative position with Quad Graphics, having been transferred to their Atlanta, Georgia facility.

Betty Proper, studio art '89, was juried into the 17th Annual Secura Exhibition in Appleton.

Danna Pye, studio art '95, is teaching ceramics at The Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Jennifer Richards, studio art '95, is a volunteer for AmeriCorps, St. Louis Partners. She works in a St. Louis elementary school assisting the art and science teachers, tutoring in second and fourth-grade classrooms, and giving workshops to students on the basics of water-color painting. She hopes to expand this workshop into a class for adults. Jennifer continues painting in her free time and plans to apply to graduate school.

Timothy Riley, art history '92, education assistant with The Cloisters Museum, medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, presented a course entitled The Art of Courtly Love, together with guest musicians, on Saturday, April 26, at The Cloisters Museum.

Julie Rodemeier, studio art '91, is finishing her master's degree in art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Julie was a teaching assistant this year.

Jami Severson, art history '95, production coordinator in the Public Affairs office of Lawrence, visited Matthew Lemke, psychology '92, and Chris Lemke, anthropology '92. Both are completing their Ph.D's in archaeology at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England. Continuing her holiday abroad, Jami then went to Dundee, Scotland, and toured the Scottish-English countryside before leaving for home from Manchester, England.

Robert (Rob)Smart, studio art '96, has been accepted into the Boston University MFA-Sculpture program and will start this fall.

Richard Strobel, studio art '89, returned to the Appleton area. He holds an MFA degree in Sculpture from Washington University. Rich is married to Joanne Henderson, specialist in music (Violin/Viola) at the Lawrence Arts Academy.

Kelly Swett, art history/anthropology '93, is the slide librarian at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, where she also has been teaching an art history survey course.

Patrick Tassoni, studio art '94, graduated from De Paul University Graduate School and started a painting and decorating business in the Chicago area. Patrick's business in growing and he is teaching painting as well as continuing with his own fine art work. He is always interested in finding other qualified LU grads in the area to assist him with his business.

Lavell Tyler, studio art '94, will complete his MFA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this summer.

Jody Vanesky, psychology '84, and director of education for the Appleton Center of the Arts (ACA), was juried into the 17th Annual Secura Exhibition in Appleton.

Bradford Wendel, classics '96, returned to campus to attend Professor Dan Taylor's talk on the history of the classics department at Lawrence as part of the Sesquicentennial celebration lecture series in March. Brad, a research consultant for Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., a major dealer in ancient coins in Chicago, recently designed a web page for the firm. In term III, Professor Lawton invited Brad to talk to her class in Art & History of Ancient Coinage. Brad encourages friends to keep in touch via the Berk website: http://www.harlanjberk.com.

1995-1996 Exhibition Schedule

1997-1998 Exhibition Schedule

(Two exhibitions per term are scheduled.)

Term I: September-December 1997

Term II: January-March 1997

Term III: March-June, 1997