Fall 2025
Friday, September 26 – Friday, November 21
Women in Rare Books
Leech Gallery
An exhibition of rare books from the Richmond Collection curated by Alex Whaley ’27. Completed as an LU Research Fellow in summer 2025, Alex’s work with the collection was supported by Susan Nelson Goldsmith ‘65. Alex delves into editions by women authors in the collection (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, and Harriet Beecher Stowe) to examine their presences and absences within book history.
Janis Mars Wunderlich, ceramics and paintings
Hoffmaster Gallery
Janis Mars Wunderlich grew up in a large Mormon family with Amish cousins in Northeastern Ohio. Her detailed ceramic sculptures and paintings capture the dualities and complexities of being human, inspired by ancient ceramic story-telling figurines and her Cherokee Folk Artist step-grandfather, Edwin George. Wunderlich blends animal, plant, and other natural elements in her narrative figures to celebrate nurturing, reciprocity, resilience, and the spiritual connectedness of all things. Wunderlich is a mother of five grown children and has four grandchildren. Along with her passion to make art, she is also a marathon runner, lap swimmer, bow-hunter, and an associate professor of art at Monmouth College, where she teaches ceramics, creative processes, and art history. She spends much of her time with her husband and best friend Grant on their rural Illinois farm and woodlands.
Janis Mars Wunderlich, Voice of the Woods, 2023, Ceramic, Underglaze
The Lawrence University Art Collection
Kolher Gallery
This exhibition of works in the Lawrence University Art Collection will remain on view during most of the academic year, from September to May. A new direction for the gallery schedule, this exhibition showcases the breadth and depth of the collection, built from donations by generous alumni and friends of LU, and connects it concretely to curriculum across the university. The exhibition is organized around four themes: Light, More Light!, Displacement, the Unknown, and Empowerment, which have been conceptualized and curated by Val Muzzarelli ‘27 as a LU Research Fellow in summer 2025. Exemplary artworks by well-known historical and contemporary artists will also be on view. The exhibition will change slightly over the course of the year, so be sure to return often to see new objects.
Winter 2026
Friday, January 16 – Friday, March 13
Louise Bourgeois, Mixografia Series
Leech Gallery
In 2023, Dr. Robert Dickens ‘63 donated the complete Mixografia series by Louise Bourgeois (French, b. 1911, d. 2010) as part of his named collections of contemporary works on paper. The Mixografia technique is a unique fine art printing process that produces textured, three-dimensional prints. Bourgeois created the series, titled Crochet I-V, based on her vast body of drawings. With the help of Judith Solodkin of SOLO Impression, New York, Bourgeois used red string as a drawing tool to create a series of linear compositions and a representation of a woman’s braided hair.
Todd Mrozinski, printmaking
Hoffmaster Gallery
An experienced and exacting printmaker, Todd Mrozinski produces highly detailed images of light and shadow as they play over every day domestic settings as a path into presence and peace. Mrozinski will also be a visiting artist with the Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop in tandem with his show; he will produce a print edition with students, one of which will go into the Wriston Art Galleries Collection. Mrozinski teaches etching, drawing, and painting at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Spring 2026
Friday, April 3 – Friday, May 15
Ancient Roman Coin Exhibition
Leech Gallery
Jackson Bertman ’26, a self-designed classical studies major, curated an exhibition drawn from the Otillia Buerger ‘38 Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins. Focused on Roman Coins, and connected to his capstone research, this exhibition highlights the use of coins has political propaganda in the late Republican and early Imperial eras of Rome.
Andy Gambrell, painting
Hoffmaster Gallery
Abstract artist Andy Gambrell works with an eye-tracking viewfinder prototype he developed to digitally draw the path of his eyes and compose a non-representational representation of the landscape en plein air. His inspiration comes from happenstance encounters with the natural world while walking in the city or hiking in the wilderness. His distinctive combination of technology and traditional painting technique is an innovative example of where contemporary painting is heading as a medium.
2026 Senior Art Show
May 29 – June 20
Leech, Hoffmaster, and Kohler Galleries
The annual exhibition of artwork by Lawrence University’s senior studio art majors.