PAST EXHIBITIONS

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Kamante Gatura |

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Wild Kingdom |

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Norman Pettingill |

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Jill Greenberg: Monkey Portraits |

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Billie Grace Lynn: White Elephants |

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American Story What does it mean to be an American? With a population not defined by any single heritage, experience, history, ethnicity, or culture, the United States is richly layered. In American Story, the Arts Center's second institution-wide exhibition, we explore the diversity of American culture through fifteen artists who fuse personal identity and cultural heritage in compelling and illuminating works of art. Read more... |

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Messages and Magic Messages & Magic is an unprecedented exhibition that traces American popular culture through a century of collage and assemblage—art forms that have captivated both internationally renowned and virtually unknown self-taught, folk, and academically trained artists. Read more... |
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Martin and Muñoz Artist team Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz (NY) use the medium of snow globes to create dark narratives and strange situations that straddle reality and dream worlds. Read more... |
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All Over the Map Maps conjure up the explorer in each of us by transporting us to new lands with exquisitely detailed geography and beautiful designs often rendered in vibrant colors. Read more... |
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Kahn and Selesnick Maps conjure up the explorer in each of us by transporting us to new lands with exquisitely detailed geography and beautiful designs often rendered in vibrant colors. Read more... |
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American Masterpieces The precedent-setting exhibition Sublime Spaces & Visionary Worlds elicited an astounding audience response. Local supporters, national and international fans, and countless initiates responded to the aesthetic power, emotional depth, and sheer passion embodied in the work of the 22 artist-environment builders in the Arts Center’s collection. Read more... |
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Renée Lotenero Renée Lotenero (CA) creates fanciful structures, delicate drawings, and mixed-media collages that reference architectural ruins. Read more... |
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kathryn e. martin Wisconsin artist kathryn e. martin is interested in the potential for artistic expression that everyday objects possess. She deconstructs these ordinary forms—often tens of thousands of them—then shapes the accumulated fragments into immersive environments that are both elegant and monumental. Read more... |
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Risks and Possibilities Each year the Wisconsin Art Education Association holds a membership exhibition highlighting the creativity of art educators in the state as part of the fall conference. Read more... |
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Michele Pred How important to you are your personal items? What does it mean to you when they are taken away? Michele Pred (CA) investigates these questions with sculptures made of materials confiscated at airport security the checkpoints since 9/11. Read more... |
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Valerie Hegarty New York artist Valerie Hegarty creates installations of foamcore, paper, paint, glue, and gel medium that challenge notions of time and space and play with perception and reality. Read more... |
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Stretching the Truth Focusing on photography, this exhibition will feature works by artists who demonstrate this medium’s rapidly expanding boundaries. Read more... |
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Yasumasa Morimura: Reflections Paintings, drawings, and prints from diverse artists are both an inspiration and source material for Yasumasa Morimura (Japan), who meticulously recreates historic masterworks with one crucial alteration: he replaces the central figures from the original works with images of himself. Read more... |
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Joe Fig Connecticut artist Joe Fig provides an intimate glimpse into the enigmatic world of art with his sculptural portraits of contemporary painters in their studios. Read more... |
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Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage —China New York artist Kehinde Wiley continues to blur the divisions between urban and highbrow and traditional and contemporary representation in his new series of paintings, Made in China. Read more... |












