The Wriston Art Center Newsletter

INTRODUCTION

• Alice King Case, lecturer in studio art and supervisor of art education, returned from a drawing seminar at Bjorklunden and began classes in the fall. In October, all of her drawing students returned to Bjorkluden for a beautiful autumn weekend of intensive landscape drawing. After returning from Mexico at the end of Term II, Alice and eight art pre-service educators spent five days in Chicago at the National Art Education Association Conference. Alice won the Judge's Award of Merit at the Christel de Haan Fine Arts Center at the Univeristy of Indiana biannual exhibition:Into the Millennium-Contemporary Artists, for a mixed media drawing. This show included works by artists from a 13 state area. She was also the Judge and Juror of the 55th Art Annual at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay. Alice received a research grant to return to Bennington College in Vermont (in conjunction with the Massachusetts College of Art, in Boston) where she continued her studies in drawing and painting this past summer. Alice received an Artist in Residency Award from the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, where she will focus on creative work for the month of February, in the company of artists from around the world. In April, Alice will have a solo exhibition of new works at the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum in Neenah.

• Kate Hunt, visiting assistant professor of studio art in sculpture, developed a steelworking program in the sculpture department. She participated in the Taller de Multimedia y Graphica printmaking project, and presented a student sculpture installation on the Lawrence campus. Her solo exhibition at the Wriston Art Center Galleries was well-received and well-attended by the community. She chaired a panel and presented a paper at the Mid-America College Art Association Conference in Lexington, KY and also participated in an art and architecture conference in Marfa, TX. Kate was invited to jury the student exhibitions at the UW-LaCrosse and UW-Oshkosh campuses. She is off to Europe to work with two architects, and to lecture on her work at several schools. Kate would like to thank the faculty, staff, and students for their kindness, humor, and support and would like to wish Yumi Roth all the best.

• Helen R. Klebesadel, associate professor of art, lent two watercolor paintings for exhibition at the American Embassy in Sri Lanka as a part of the Art in the Embassies Program of the United States. Her paintings will be on exhibiton during the tenure of Shaun Donnelly, LU'68, as American Ambassador to Sri Lanka. Reproductions of the paints will be included in theArt in the Embassies Program Catalogue 1998. Last fall she gave a slide lecture on her work to the Lawrence Club of Madison, and in January she presented a talk entitled, "Musings: An artist Examines Her Sources," as part of the Lunch at Lawrence Series. During the year Helen exhibited her work int he following exhibitions:Three Wise Womenat the Vorpal Gallery in San Fancisco, CA;Diverse Origins, at the Core New Space Gallery in Denver, CO, and in Sevenat the Commonwealth Gallery and Red,at the Grace Chosy Gallery both in Madison, WI. Several of her paintings were included in the winter 1998 issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studiespublished by Washington State University-Pullman. With A research grant from Lawrence University, she was able to spend Term III working on a new group of watercolor paintings inspired by women's traditonal arts. This summer, Helen offered a watercolor workshop at Bjorklunden in Door County. Her work can be seen on the web as a part of Varo: An International Registry of Contemporary Women Artists,University of CA-Sonoma, at http://www.netdreams.com/registry.

• Carol Lawton, associate professor of art history, attended an NEW-sponsored workshop at Lawrence on CD-ROM use in the classroom, and she received a Faculty Development Award from Charles E. Culpeper Foundation to explore ways of incorporating the electronic multimedia database Perseus into her course on Greek Art. At the spring Honors Dinner she received the 1998 Freshman Studies Teaching Award. Carol continues her work on the publication of the Greek and Roman votive reliefs from the excavations of the Athenian Agora. This summer she was the Solow Senior Research Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. In July she presented the results of her research at the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Amsterdam. Carol serves on the sculpture advisory board for the Preseus Project, on the Managing Committee of the American School in Athens, and as a reviewer of books and manuscripts for the American Journal of Archaeology. She has been appointed the Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for the academic year 1999-2000.

• Pamela O'Donnell, gallery and collection assistant/visual resources librarian, began the 1997-98 academic year by attending the Midwest Museums Conference in Kansas City, MO. In addition to admiring the permanent collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Pamela participated in a poster session describing the benefits of an Institute of Museum and Library Services scholarship she received to attend a workshop at the Campbell Center in Mount Carroll, IL. She is scheduled to take another course there on matting at the end of September. With the help of dedicated gallery interns, Pamela has undertaken a complete inventory of the university's permanent collection which will culminate in an exhibition of selected pieces in the show,Connections: Recent Gifts and the Permanent Collection,coming in April 1999.

• Michael T. Orr, associate professor of art history, gave a lecture entitled "Public Display and Private Devotion: The Function of Christian Art in Medieval and Renaissance Europe" as one of the keynote speakers at a conference in Cincinnati in October entitledArtistic Expressions of Faith in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. During the year he accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the Journal of the Early Book Society; published an entry on Gothic marginalia in Medieval England: An Encyclopedia; and had the first volume of An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIIIc.1380-1509 (co-authored with two other scholars) accepted for publication by Harvey Miller Press. With a research grant from Lawrence, he returned to England during the summer to continue his research on English fifteeth-century manuscripts.

• Timothy R. Rodgers, associate professor of art history, presented lectures/tours to alumni at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on issues of race in the photography of Roy de Carava and at the Walker Art Center on the history of modern sculpture. For the Appleton chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Tim spoke on sexual difference and life in the Midwest, and while at Appleton's West High School, he participated on a panel that examined issues of sexual orientation and how they are (or are not) addressed in the public schools. Last summer Tim co-led the LU Gender Studies Workshop on introducing sexuality into the curriculum. He did two presentations, one on Willa Cather's short story,Paul's Case,and another on Paul Gauguin and feminist scholarship. Also for gender studies, he presented a lecture for the intermediate level class called, "Homopanic in the South Seas: Paul Gauguin and John LaFarge."

• Charles Timm-Ballard, the Frederick Layton visiting professor of art, has been a prolific artist this year, capturing recognition throught the ceramics world. He earned First Prize in a national competition at Ceramics '98: Viewpointat El Cajon, California. This competition had more than 200 entrants and was juried by Ivan Karp, Director of the OK Harris Gallery in New York City. He also won a Merit Award at theInternational Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Awardat Auckland, New Zealand, and a Third Prize at the 1998 Monarch National Ceramic Competition,juried by Michael Monroe, Director of the American Craft Council, New York, NY. In July, Charles had a solo exhibition at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit and is looking forward to being the featured artist at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA, in January of 1999. Perhaps the most prestigious honor that Charles received this year is the residency awarded for the summer of 1999 at Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. You can see his work in the April and November 1998 issues of Ceramics Montlyand on the Internet at http://apaaf.ucdavis.edu/gallery.

• Nadine Wasserman, curator of the Wriston Art Center Galleries, taught one session of the Mielke Summer Institute in the Liberal Arts at Law[Cren contributed to Women of Color, forthcoming from Greenwood Publishing Group. The galleries just completed a Museum Assessment Program and a Conservation Assessment Program through grants from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. These programs were helpful in evaluating gallery operation, programming, and care of collections as well as planning for the future. The galleries also received a grant from the Community Foundation of the Fox Valley Region, Inc., to help fund the exhibition, Artist, Writer, Publisher, Printer: The Art of the Book in Wisconsin."

• Jeff Davis, studio art/mathematics '94, is currently an instructor at the Humanities and Sciences Institute in Phoenix, AZ, where he teaches classes in studio art, art history, and mathematics. His artwork can be seen on the web at http://www.amug.org/~jkdavis.
• Adam Demers, art history '94, participated in the New York Studio School's five week summer intensive program in drawing and painting. In the fall he will continue his study in studio art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
• April Eisman, art history/English '94, received her M.A. from the Courtauld Institute in London. Her thesis was entitled "Triple Marginality in Nazi Germany: Charlotte Salomon as Woman, Jew, and 'Degenerate' Artist."
• Michael Fendry, studio art '87, has been appointed a teaching mentor in the Milwaukee Public School system.
• Andrew J. Guenther, studio art '98, is a graduate student of painting at Rutgers University.
• Anne Strass Gustafson, studio art '85, and her husband, Dan Gustafson, biology '84, an attorney, have two children and live in Mequon, Wisconsin.
• Deanna Jones, art history/French '96, is living in Appleton and working for Ameritel translating French. She continues to pursue her interest in the Young Life organization.
• Carolyn Joslyn, physics/studio art '96, is attending graduate school at Arizona State University. Her e-mail address is cjoslyn@usa.net.
• John Kokoszka, art history/biology '95, has successfully completed his first year in law school at the University of Minnesota. He says that his art history degree prepared him well for law school.
• Andrew Kutchera, art history/Spanish '94, is working as an Administrative Assistant in the Western Regional Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in San Francisco. He is also taking classes in computer graphics at the Computer Arts Institute and studi art classes at the University of California at Berkeley Extension.
• Dean Laabs, trumpet '88, who took several art courses at Lawrence and is a practicing jazz musician in Boston, married Sabrena Learman on Memorial Day. They live in Jamaica Plain, MA.
• Bill Lee, art history '96, completed his MA at Columbia University in May with a thesis entitled "The Master of Mary of Burgundy: Problems in the State of Research." In June, he accepted the position of Claims Manager at the newly-formed Commission for Art Recovery of the World Jewish Congress in New York City.
• Diana Ling, studio art '94, received her M.F.A. in studio art from Washington State University-Pullman this spring. In March, she was appointed to the national board of the Women's Caucus of Art, an interdisciplinary arts organization, and will serve a two year term.
• Dawn Eden Martin, studio art '94, is substitute teaching in Portland, Oregon, her hometown. She is seeking a full-time position in art education in the Portland area. She loves teaching and has been working with a master metalsmith, Tim Nielsen, and will continue to apprentice with him next summer.
• Amy Mechowski, art history '96, completed her MA thesis "Lesbianism and Liminality: Romaine Brooks' Renegotiation of the Femal Nude Le Trajet" at University College London. Her thesis was awarded a distinction in recognition of its exceptional quality. In May, she gave a lecture in the Worcester Auditorium on her research on Romaine Brooks. She will return to University College London in the fall to start work on her doctoral thesis.
• Andrea Morrill, art history '96, is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Nora O'Shea, studio art '97, is the distance running coach for the Kimberly High School track team.
• Benjamin Palchick, studio art '96, is a graduate student at the University of Indiana studying painting.
• Scott Rice, studio art '95, one of our art students who transferred to Madison, is now a computer artist for a game company. He will be going to graduate school in film in the future and continues his studies in drawing.
• Renee Rousseau, studio art/French '94, is an instructor at the Humanities and Sciences Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, where she teaches French and pursues her art independently.
• Eileen Sliwinski, studio art '87, has moved to Seattle, Washington. She can be reached at 2556 10th Avenue W., Seattle, Washington 09199. Her telephone # is 206-285-3244. She will be substituting until she gets a permanent teaching job after leaving her position as an art teacher in the Milwaukee Public schools for several years.
• Rob Smart, studio art '96, is studying for his M.F.A. in sculpture at Boston University.
• Ted Sutherland, studio art '88, his wife and new baby daughter, Ariel, have moved from Chicago to San Antonio, Texas. Ted received his M.F.A. in sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin.
• Kelly Swett, art history/anthropology '93, has been appointed Registrar of the American Numismatic Association in Colorado Springs.
• Lavell Tyler, studio art '94, received his M.A. and M.F.A. in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring.
• Floris van den Einjde, special student in classics and art history '95, is doing graduate work in classics and archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. He worked on the excavations of the Athenian Agora this summer.
• Sam Welch, studio art '97, spent his summer working at Bjorklunden and stayed on to be a valuable assistant to their director, Mark Breseman '78. Besides his multiple responsibilities at Bjorklunden, Sam proved to be a wonderful cook! He plans to go to graduate school next year, majoring in film and video.

1998-99 Exhibition Schedule

Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University
Cost: $35.00