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 Twelve nationally and internationally recognized artists form the United States and abroad have been invited to the Department of Art & Design at UWSP for a week long workshop to make prints with students and faculty. The event will culminate in a one night gala opening and sale of work created by the artists in the Carlsten Gallery located in the Noel Fine Arts center on the UWSP campus.
May 26-June 6, 2011
Sale and Exhibition - Thursday, June 2nd, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. For more information visit the Monoprint 2011 website.  UW-Stevens Point will host the 7th Annual nowHERE Design Conference on March 4th and 5th. The conference will feature visiting artists Chip Kidd and Tnop Design. Workshops, lectures, portfolio reviews, alumni presentations, and other activities will inspire graphic design students and graphic artists from around the Midwest. Go to www.nowhereconference.com for more information.
We are very excited to feature the Corning Museum of Glass' Main Stage Hot Shop as the first of the Sentry Invitation to the Arts series of events planned for this year!
The Corning Museum of Glass will feature four of their finest glass artists in the museum's one of a kind mobile hot shop during a week-long residency on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus (October 5-9, 2010). During their residency artists from Corning will present a wide range of programs and demonstrations for elementary, high school, and university students, as well as many free and open to the public community presentations.  Join alumni, faculty and friends of the Department of Art & Design for an Open House and Alumni Reunion as a part of UWSP's Homecoming Weekend. Open House 2-5 pm and Reception 5-7 pm. For more information, visit our Reunion Website.
 Dorothy K. Vallier is a very important friend of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Her generosity made Treehaven what it is today, and established the unique collection of American pressed glass goblets displayed in the Noel Fine Arts Center. This Sunday May 30th marks her 100th birthday. The following brief YouTube video contains the proclamation as well as a few images of Dory at Treehaven and with some of the goblets.
Visit the Virtual Vallier Goblet Collection  The artistic accomplishments of graduating students in the Department of Art & Design at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will be celebrated through several art exhibits this spring. Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree candidates in two-dimensional art and three-dimensional art are included in the exhibit "Dissect Our Bodies of Work" in the Carlsten Gallery on the second floor of the Noel Fine Arts Center (NFAC) beginning Thursday, April 29. The gallery is open to the public free of charge.
The exhibit will be split into two shows. The first will open Thursday, April 29, and run through Tuesday, May 4, with a reception at the gallery on Sunday, May 2, from 2-4 p.m. The second show of this exhibit will open on Saturday, May 8 and run through Saturday, May 15, with a reception at the gallery on Sunday, May 9, from 2-4 p.m.
Graphic arts students will display their work as part of the "Graphic Design Portfolio Exhibition" in the courtyard of the NFAC on Friday, May 14, from 3-6 p.m. The Carlsten Gallery exhibit, "Dissect Our Bodies of Work," will also be open during that time as part of the celebration, which will include refreshments and a cash bar.
For more information on these exhibits, contact Art and Design Professor Bob Erickson at 715-346-2701.  Yuji Hiratsuka, Professor of Art (printmaking) at Oregon Stet University was a visiting artist in the department. His visit coincided with Japan-The Floating World: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art that was exhibited in the Carlsten Gallery as part of COFAC Creates.
During his time on our campus, Yuji gave a public lecture on his life and work, demonstrated the traditional ukiyo-e woodblock printing technique, talked about his intaglio prints to students and completed a five color Solar Plate intaglio print entitled “Delightful Garden.” This print will be editioned by intermediate printmaking students and will become part of the permanent collection at UWSP. Additional prints will be for sale at ArtsBash 2010.
 The renaming of the science building lobby in memory of William C. Hansen and his presidency has been followed by a commissioned stained glass project. Mark Brueggeman, senior lecturer in art and design, designed the stained glass piece. “One of the aspects of this project was the challenge to develop an image that could take on iconic properties. This was also a rewarding opportunity to employ student assistants and allow them to contribute to the campus image”. According to Brueggeman, two UWSP students contributed to his stained glass project. Stevens Point native Nicholas Danczyk graduated this May with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Ripon native John Pahlas is a sophomore majoring in art. “Nick worked for me the longest on this, during the pattern making and glass fabrication. John worked for me in the preliminary stages of designing and producing imagery,” said Brueggeman.
 “Eco-tivity – environmental art in process” was a show held during the month of September at the Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, Door County, WI. The three artists involved were Dan Engelke, Professor Emeritus in Art from Purdue University who installed a series of floating lit sculptures in Tennison Bay off Peninsula State Park, Karl Saliter from Connecticut created an eight foot cube using local stone and steel rebar as a permanent piece on the grounds of the School, and Bill McKee, Instructor at UWSP who harvested invasive plants (honeysuckle and Scotch pine) and used those materials for an installation in the Guenzel Gallery at the Peninsula School of Art.
 Gary Baseman, cartoonist, illustrator, toy designer and three-time Emmy award winning animator, spent the day in the Department of Art & Design on September 9, 2009. Baseman visited with two classes, and gave a presentation to 150 people in the NFAC courtyard. His visit coincided with the exhibition titled "Tarnished Reality", which included three pieces by Baseman.
 Fumiko Amano (BA 1993) had a one-person show of her paintings and mixed media work at the Murnau Art Gallery, in Seville, Spain. The exhibition, titled "Everything is Alive", ran from April 27 to May 30, 2009. Fumiko's website address is http://www.fumikoamano.com.
 Five graphic design students had work included in the 2009 SIGGRAPH Space-Time poster competition. Ryanna Christianson won first place in the competition. Other accepted posters were designed by Matt Korpal, Amy Kucksdorf, Tony Knapton, and Julie Sittler. The award winning posters were exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 2009 annual conference in New Orleans in August. Siggraph is an international organization made up of a diverse group of researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, scientists, and other professionals who share an interest in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Additional congratulations go out to Ryanna Christianson for having work accepted to be published in Issue #16 of Creative Quarterly Magazine! Issue 16 can be seen online: http://cqjournal.com/currentissue.html
 UW-Stevens Point art & design alum Christopher Engebretson recently was awarded a plaque in recognition of his numerous hours of work to restore and replicate a local icon, "The Boy With The Leaking Boot," which stands in front of the Stevens Point Fire Headquarters on Franklin Street. The statue, one of seven known to be left in the world, has become a prized asset to the firefighters and community. After being vandalized twice, firefighters had the statue repaired each time but any future incident might make it irreparable. Engebretson accepted the task of making a mold of the figure and recreated it out of concrete, which is easier to repair if damaged again. Engebretson put more than 150 hours into the project. The new state stands is standing in front of the fire station until a decision on how to properly display it in a secure but public location is chosen.
In May and June 2009 Art & Design faculty teamed up with faculty from Interior Architecture to teach a three-week summer class on Art, Architecture and Design in Greece. In addition to several days visiting sites and museums in Athens, the class visited key monuments throughout the Peloponnese, as well as several key sites on Crete. Classical sites included Delphi, Olympia, Corinth and Athens, while the Bronze Age (the Homeric era) was covered by Mycenae, Tiryns, Phaistos and Knossos. In addition to the ancient sites, the major early Christian and Byzantine centers of Mistra, Monemvasia and Gortyn were included, as were a number of spectacular fortified harbors such as Naupactos and Navarino/Pylos. Greek food, music and beaches were included under the rubric of “Littoral Zone sociological independent research”. Much learning, three Art History credit hours and a good time were had by all.  This past June a new public sculpture titled, “Ascension” was unveiled in front of The Pineries Bank in Stevens Point. Art 398-Public Sculpture, taught by Bill McKee, was the catalyst for the piece designed by the class and approved by the Pineries' Board of Directors. Students in the class included Shannon Piette, Douglas Somers, Matthew Piepenbrok, Kandra Shefchik, Michael Butcher, Todd Hebal, Stephanie Jones, Justin Young, Matt Lison, Christina Wardall, Chelsea Fuller, and Amber Fuller.
Built with local services and materials of historical content, the sculpture includes reclaimed hemlock timbers from the floor of the former Lullaby Factory and fieldstone from the farms of Fran and Dan Zaborowski in Polonia and the Henrietta Hintz farm in Rosholt. Local craftspeople assisted with the work, including Dan Michor and Joe Thorn of Metal Crafters, Juda Haas of Alchemy Concrete, Jay Goska of Powder Coating Specialists, engineer Troy Hanson of Merrill, County Concrete, Gimme Shelter Construction, Home Team Décor and Dennis Bauer Sandblasting. In return for this monument, an endowment has been established to provide scholarships to UWSP art and design students.
Twelve nationally and internationally recognized artists form the United States and abroad have been invited to the Department of Art & Design at UWSP for a week long workshop to make prints with students and faculty. The event will culminate in a one night gala opening and sale of work created by the artists in the Carlsten Gallery located in the Noel Fine Arts center on the UWSP campus.
May 29-June 4, 2009
Sale and Exhibition - Thursday, June 4th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
For more information visit the Monoprint 2009 website.
 The Susan B. Murphy Piotrowski Ceramic Awards began in the late 1970's by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Murphy of Stevens Point, in honor of their daughter who was a ceramicist. Professor Emeritus Richard Schneider supported and encouraged his students to participate in this prestigious award, where First, Second and Third Place winning ceramic pieces became part of the University's Permanent Collection, under the direction of the Curator of the Edna Carlsten Gallery.
Currently the judges for this award are: Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, Professor Caren Heft, Gallery Director/Curator of the Edna Carlsten Gallery, Professor Diana Black, Chair, Department of Art and Design and Professor Anne-Bridget Gary, professor of Ceramics in the department.
 Professor Susan Morrison's work has been exhibited in a number of venues recently including a two-person show at the Fred P. Giles Gallery at Eastern Kentucky University, a solo exhibition at the Edna Carlsten Gallery, UW-Stevens Point, a five-person exhibition at the Buckham Gallery in Michigan and the 23rd International Juried Show 2009 at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey. This show contained artists' work from six countries and twenty three states.
 The UW-Stevens Point Department of Art & Design announces the 2009 BFA Exhibition. The exhibition will be held on Friday, May 8, 2009, in the Courtyard, balcony and Edna Carlsten Gallery, UWSP Noel Fine Arts Building, from 3–6 pm. This exhibition is the capstone experience for the 2009 BFA graduates. Graphic Design majors present their professional portfolios. Studio majors present a body of work in their chosen areas.
Please join us to celebrate the accomplishments of our graduating seniors.
 Diane Bywaters won first place for landscape in the International Small Works Award Show in Richeson75 with her oil painting of the Milwaukee vista. She has also been selected as an artist-in-residence in Jentel, Wyoming in August; and has work in a juried exhibition called "Truth Seekers" in West Palm Beach; and a piece in the Wisconsin Biennial 2009.
Bywaters participated in the Faculty/Mentor Exhibition at Wisconsin Lutheran College by invitation of UWSP alumni and Associate Professor Kristin Gjerdset.
 UW-Stevens Point hosted the 5th Annual nowHERE Design Conference this past March 6th and 7th. The conference featured inspiring workshops, lectures, portfolio reviews and other activities designed to bring together graphic artists from around the Midwest. Go to www.nowhereconference.com for more information.
 Monotype Senior BFA students Travis Lester, Nick Danczyk and Jamie Karoses had one print each selected for the 22nd Annual UW-Parkside National Small Print Exhibition in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This the second straight year that Travis and Nick have had their work selected for the show. This exhibition draws entries from professional and student artists from the United States and Canada who work in the printmaking, works on paper and book arts discipline. Traditionally there are approximately 900 entries for the show from which 80 are chosen for the exhibition.
 Mild steel, 5.5m x .5m x .5m Collection of Skulpturenpark Katzow. Katzow, Germany Negotiating memory was built in a sculpture park residency in the East German town of Katzow. During this residency I found myself thinking a lot about the construction of memory and differing views regarding the past. Placed like childrens blocks, eleven half meter cubes are stacked leaving the 12th on the ground, as if about to be raised or just fallen.
 Professor Bob Erickson had two intaglio prints accepted in to the 2008 Minnesota National Print Biennial at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota. He was also one of two artists selected from the exhibition to be interviewed about their work and then have the interview printed in the catalog for the show.
 Rob Stolzer, who is on sabbatical for the 2008-2009 school year, spent the month of October as an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, Vermont. The Vermont Studio Center is the largest residency program in the country, with 50 artists and writers in residence each month, from all over the world, along with a slate of visiting artists and writers. Stolzer worked primarily on painting and drawing during his residency.
 Senior Nick Danczyk had his linoleum cut Bogyman #2 juried into The Plain Brown Wrapper 2008: Night Vision-Printing Darkness. This is the second national print portfolio competition for undergraduate students held at the University of North Dakota. Kim Fink, Associate Professor of Art at UND, developed the concept behind this competition in an effort to bring attention to printmaking within the undergraduate art programs across the United States. Serving as the competition's juror this year was Anthony Kirk, Artistic Director and Master Printer at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut.
 Susan Morrison recently exhibited eight of her large scale fabric and steel sculptures at the Fred P. Giles Gallery at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY from October 6-29, 2008. She also had sculptures juried into two nationally juried shows in the Spring of 2008: one sculpture exhibited in Houston, TX juried by the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and one sculpture exhibited in Woodstock, IL juried by the Northwest Area Arts Council.
 During the weekend of October 17-20th, four graphic design area professors: Stuart Morris, Jillian Noble, Mark Pohlkamp, and John Smith participated in an American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design Educators Conference titled, “Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World.” The conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland and sponsored by the Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA).
Guillermo Peñafiel attended the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) conference on Diversity, Learning and Inclusive Excellence held in Long Beach, California (October 16-18, 2008). The main focus of the conference was to examine and promote the inclusion of minorities and historically under represented populations into the learning process at the university level creating learning outcomes that connect to the concept of the college graduate as a global citizen.  In early October, seven students from the intermediate and advanced printmaking class attended the biennial conference of the Mid America Print Council in Fargo, North Dakota. Sponsored jointly by North Dakota State University, Concordia College and the University of Minnesota Morehead, this conference brought together professional printmakers, educators and students from around the country and Canada.
Students attended panel discussions, demonstrations and exhibitions related to printmaking. In addition they participated in the conference print portfolio exchange and the open portfolio sessions. Students participating were Tim Zoulek (pictured above at the open portfolio session), Jamie Karoses, Shane Stritesky, Nick Danczyk, Julie Benda, Dianne Grahn and Stephanie Moller.
 The printmaking area in the Department of Art & Design recently acquired a new 24” x 48' Takach Tabletop Combination Lithography/ Intaglio press. The press was purchased through the College of Fine Arts and Communication's Lab Modernization Fund and the Dean's office. The table was designed and fabricated by Art & Design faculty member Bill McKee.
In October 2008, 19 UWSP Graphic Design students attended AIGA Minnesota Design Camp, a two-day experience featuring nationally recognized speakers, hands-on workshops, and graphic design discussion sessions. http://minnesota.aiga.org/designcamp Bill McKee opened his Studio A for the second year in a row to participate in the “Hidden Studios Tour – Art Along the Ice Age Trail”, a tour of working studios in central Wisconsin. A total of twenty artists showcased their work during October 3,4 & 5. For further information go to http://www.hiddenstudiosarttour.com  Art & Design student, Jamie Karoses, a graphic design and two-dimensional double-emphasis senior, won a $5,500, the top award in the 2008 Design*Sponge Scholarship competition. Her work, chosen from 2000 applicants, included package designs that included soap wrappers made out of plantable packaging embedded with basil and mint seeds as well as hand illustrated paper design and textile design. The national contest invited current college students to submit designs for products, furniture, surfaces, textiles, ceramics or interiors.
This summer Jamie interned at Wilmarth Schoolhouse in Ashland Wisconsin. She assisted in the studio, learned about working as an artist/designer, and how to promote and maintain a small business.
 John O. Smith, professor in Graphic Design, launched the project Currency Exchange, a provocative series of limited edition artist's books. The project challenges concepts of value and appreciation in both art and financial exchange; transforming currency into art and art into currency. The book has been exhibited recently in Madison Wisconsin, and purchased by public and private collectors around the country.
www.currency-exchange-book.com
 Smith also recently completed a limited edition, hand-crafted artists' book entitled Threshold. This book was created collaboratively with Edwin Jager of UW-Oshkosh. The book presents a beautiful visual romance — a story about two lovers separated in time and space. The narrative is presented through nearly 1500 photographs over 200 pages and five chapters. Threshold is currently showing at galleries in Toronto, Wisconsin, and Maine.
www.thresholdbook.com
 Cortney Chaffin, professor of Art History, and a specialist in East Asian art and archaeology, spent three and a half weeks in the People's Republic of China doing research on Bronze Age tombs. She was invited to present her current research on "Antlered Tomb Sculptures of Chu" at Wuhan University by the Director of The Institute of Chinese Historical Geography.
 Art & Design Professor Diane Bywaters is currently leading UWSP's International Programs Semester Abroad in London. Diane and her students spent 3 weeks touring continental Europe by bus and then the fall semester studying in London. A total of 14 UWSP students are on the trip including two Art & Design students: Jenny Harkness and Deborah Reichert-Grosbier.
 Larry Ball, professor of Art History, co-led a 3-week International Programs course in Italy this summer with Interior Architecture professor, KatheJulin. Professor Ball is completing work on an article for the Pompeii Forum Project, co-authored with project director John Dobbins of UVA.
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