Wriston Summer Exhibition Series
July 13 to August 19, 2018
The Artwork of Joseph Friebert
Leech and Hoffmaster Galleries
Born in Buffalo, New York, Joseph Friebert grew up in Milwaukee in a Jewish working class family. A sense of loss and vulnerability after two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War permeate Friebert's artworks, but they also reflect the beauty and range of human experience. This exhibition will showcase works by Friebert in the Lawrence University permanent art collection that were donated by the Kohler Foundation, Inc. of Kohler, WI.
The Wriston Summer Exhibition Series is an annual summer exhibition in the Wriston Art Galleries intended to engage the Fox Valley community in a conversation about artworks and artists of the Midwest.
Artists frequently portrayed clowns, harlequins, and acrobats in their work to protest traditional artistic values and to symbolize their loneliness within the modern world. With the rapid industrialization of the West in the late 19th century, theatres, cafes, cabarets, and circuses became popular places of leisure among all social classes. However, the circus also revealed the darker side of the modern age.
An exhibit of over 20 photographs of transgender people and their families. This project is a partnership with Cream City Foundation, the major financial supporter for the project. Additional support has been provided by Diverse and Resilient and the Mary Nohl Foundation which identified the photographers as "Artists in Residence." More on Our Trans Family and other works produced by "For Good" Photography is 
