Katherine (Kate) Mothes has been hired as interim curator of the Lawton Gallery and instructor of Arts Management in Art and Design. She has a master’s degree in History of Art, Theory and Display from Edinburgh University and a bachelor’s of arts in Art History from UW-Madison. She is the founder of Young Space, a platform […]
UW-Green Bay students, Erin Schroth and Hailey McDermott, won American Advertising Federation Addy Student Awards at the annual Fox River AD FED Club Addy Event that took place Friday, February 17, 2017 at the Backstage at the Meyer Theatre. All educational institution students in Northeast Wisconsin and the Fox Cities are eligible to submit to the Addys each year. […]
Professor Emerita Carol Emmons (Art, Art and Design) is displaying her work in three exhibitions: A new installation for terrain/territories: dreams of place (March 15 to April 16; UW-Stevens Point Edna Carlsten Gallery); Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity (April; Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, Alexandria, VA and Art Annual (April 8 to June 4; Neville Public Museum, […]
The Lawton Gallery will host a new exhibition — Allies: Work by UWGB Art and Design Faculty — Feb. 2 to 23. An opening reception will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2. This year’s faculty exhibition is based on the theme “collaboration.” See work by faculty and collaborators Kayla Bauer, Toni Damkoehler, Sarah Detweiler, Arda Ishkanian, Heidi […]
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Art (painting and drawing) Professor Kristy Deetz received the 2016 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Award for Excellence in Teaching. She was presented with the award in October at the annual awards luncheon in Roanoke, Virginia, during the 72nd meeting of SECAC. The highly competitive award is made in recognition of outstanding […]
Carol Emmons, professor emerita (Art & Design) is one of 11 alumni of UW-Milwaukee to be selected for an exhibition of sculpture featuring UWM emeritus sculpture professors and students. The exhibition runs in the Arts Center Gallery from Sept. 16 to Nov. 3. Emmons is showing a new installation piece entitled Cosmogony 2.2, one of a […]
Alison Gates (Art and Design) and Daniel Meinhardt (Human Biology and Women’s and Gender Studies) have received word that their mixed media art piece, Gender Reveal Party, has been chosen for the show Intimate Systems by the Artists in Residence at Madison’s 100arts. About 25 artists were selected from about 100 submitted pieces. Information about […]
A colleague calls our attention to the work of Brittanie Bondie, a recent MFA graduate of the University of Florida in photography, who is spending the academic year as artist-in-residence at UW-Green Bay through generous support from the 1923 Fund. Bondie is teaching and working on a new creative project using the light of the […]
The Lawton Gallery’s annual juried art exhibition is open to any student enrolled at UW-Green Bay. Consisting solely of student work in a variety of media, the recent exhibition was guest juried by Kendra Bulgrin, director of the James May Gallery in Algoma. All Lawton Gallery events are free and open to the public. Click […]
People usually privilege the visual as a source of veracity (“seeing is believing”), but this month’s edition of the Philosophers’ Café discussion series invites Prof. Carol Emmons of UW-Green Bay’s Art and Design program to explore the question, “Does art tell the truth?” We have learned about the ancient past largely through evidence from visual […]