Please check in with individual galleries and museums before you visit to ensure you have the most updated information and hours.
Allen Priebe Gallery and Annex Art Galleries, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. www.uwosh.edu/priebegalleries
Xiaoping Zhou
September 11-October 16. Allen Priebe Gallery. Chinese-German sculptor Xiaoping Zhou resides in Shanghai, China. She received her BFA in Sculpture from Shanghai University School of Art and went on to Germany for her master’s degree at Akademie der Bildenden Kiinste Niirnberg, Germany – Department of sculpture. This exhibition will feature video, scale-models, drawings and materials associated with her large-scale, site specific public sculptures on view around the world.
Los Tsev (Home): Cia Siab (Hope)
September 11-October 2. Annex Gallery. Los Tsev (Home): Cia Siab (Hope) in WI is a community-led and community-driven exhibit that grapples with the ongoing historical trauma of war and healing. By drawing on mundane everyday, HMoob life in Wisconsin, this exhibit draws audience members to contemplate the ways war shows up at home (in the US and in the private space) and how a displaced community continues to live through revitalization and changing the landscapes around them.
Dawn Dark Mountain
October 9-30. Annex Gallery. Dawn Dark Mountain is an Oneida artist from Wisconsin specializing in watercolors. Her painting style has been referred to as “magical realism.” She uses a controlled style to explore stories and traditions from her Woodland culture. She likes to translate traditional Iroquois beadwork designs into patterns and borders and each work references traditional meanings. For this exhibition, Dawn Dark Mountain will feature her series of the different moon cycles.
Art Against the Odds: Wisconsin Prison Art
October 23-November 25. Allen Priebe Gallery. This exhibition features artists who turned to creative production to mitigate the de-humanizing conditions of incarceration. The exhibition is divided into thematic sections: solitary confinement, landscapes, portraits, letter writing, scarcity of materials, and time/seriality.
BFA Studio Art Senior Exhibition
December 4-11. Allen Priebe Gallery. This exhibition features the work of BFA Studio Art Seniors graduating from UW Oshkosh in the Fall of 2025.
Appleton Public Library, Appleton. www.apl.org
Hannah Ohayon
Through September 30. As an artist working in wild places, Hannah Ohayon creates environmental sculptures using materials found on-site. This process allows her to engage intimately with the landscape, collaborating with wind, rain, and wildlife. Hannah’s three-month residency with the Appleton Public Library includes a gallery exhibition featuring photographic captures of previous environmental sculptures with added embroidery. Hannah will also host three public programs to engage our community through arts.
Emily Schanowski
October 1-December 31. Emily Schanowski is a full-time illustrator, zinester, and event organizer specializing in tarot cards, cute ghosts, cozy animals, nature, and outer space. After creating original illustrations with ink and watercolor, Emily creates marketplace items such as art prints, screen-printed bandanas, zines, and a wide variety of vinyl stickers. Emily’s three-month residency with the Appleton Public Library includes a gallery exhibition featuring original illustrations.
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah. www.bmmglass.com
Through a Window Darkly: The Artwork of Jen Blazina
Through October 5. An homage to Evangeline Bergstrom, one of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass founders, Blazina’s work is influenced by commonplace possessions, familial vignettes and photographs. These evoke an ephemeral sense of past memories. Through the process of recreating and casting mementos in glass and metal, she seeks to transform their history in her own voice. On exhibit in the museum’s Wisconsin Gallery. Funding provided in part by grants from the Green Bay Packer Foundation and from the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass (AACG).
Victorian Art Glass Baskets
Through October 26. In addition to antique glass paperweights, Evangeline Bergstrom also collected decorative glass tableware, vases and baskets. These baskets reached the height of their popularity around 1885. English and American glass factories responded to the rise of consumerism and the increasing desire for highly embellished items by creating and marketing fanciful glass table decorations for middle and upper-class households. Come see a selection of Mrs. Bergstrom’s Victorian Art Glass Baskets, on exhibit in the Mabel R. McClanahan Memorial Study Gallery.
Building Skyward: Michael Mikula
Through February 15, 2026. Building Skyward features glass sculptures and vessels that draw the viewer towards deeper discoveries. Contemplations on architecture, from ancient to contemporary, are the starting point for reinterpreting structure and detail. Going beyond form and color, glass components are individually cast, blown, cut and polished, and composed to play with the material’s ability to refract light. Mikula is the winner of the 2024 GLASS Arts Festival and the recipient of First Place Prize sponsored by Rosann Baum Milius. On exhibit in the 2nd Floor Gallery.
Sue Soy Bequest Paperweights
November 7-August 31, 2026. On exhibit in the Mabel R. McClanahan Memorial Study Gallery.
The Building for Kids Children’s Museum, Appleton. www.buildingforkids.org
The Amazing Castle
September 20-January 4, 2026. Enter a fanciful castle village where medieval storybook characters come to life. Pick vegetables in the garden and mix up a stew in the Great Hall. Become a carpenter and build a chair or patch a hole in a cauldron as a blacksmith. And sound the trumpets to wake Herald, the sleeping dragon. A magical adventure awaits!
Elisha D. Smith Public Library, Menasha. www.menashalibrary.org
Judith Baker Waller
Through September. From lost in a dark wood to a view of the stars. Enjoy an evolving and thought-provoking art journey. On exhibit paintings and drawings that evidence how art interconnects with science and literature. The library will offer a reflective space to discover Judith Baker Waller’s intimate path of world rivers, mountains, the work of Dante and the Divine Comedy, Italian culture and language, and much more. Closing Reception: September 24 at 6 p.m.
Bonnie Paruch – The City Ever Green
October and November. Enjoy the illustrations and fine artwork of Bonnie Paruch. Last year, Bonnie turned her creative efforts toward writing and illustrating children’s books. Her first illustrated kids book is “The City Ever Green.” On the exhibit visitors will appreciate the original illustrations in this book, each created with her hand painted papers, cut and assembled into playful images to tell this story about nature and renewal. Opening Reception: October 16 at 6 p.m.
Steve Mathias – Oil Paintings
December 2025 and January 2026. On exhibit the landscapes and local life oil paintings by local artist Steve Mathias. Steve’s work reflects the transformation that can come with rediscovery later in life. The exhibit is a space that reveals nature’s quiet secrets – marvels unveiled by the artist’s talent. After a career in the graphic arts, he returned to painting and found renewed happiness and peace of mind. Through his art, he hopes to inspire others to begin—or begin again—at any age. Steve lives in the Village of Sherwood with his wife, Chris.
Hearthstone Historic House Museum, Appleton. www.hearthstonemuseum.org
Victorian Mourning Exhibit
October. Victorians mourned in ways that we would find unusual, yet compelling, today. These included draping mirrors and shining surfaces in black fabric, turning over pictures of loved ones, placing black ribbon and wreaths on the windows and front door. All of these and more are illustrated throughout the museum with Hearthstone decorated as if the Rogers family had just suffered a loss. Also on display are items that Victorians created to help them mourn, including hair jewelry, post-mortem photography, and special mourning clothing. The exhibit is available for viewing during regular daytime tours, or during weekend nighttime performances.
Victorian Christmas: Naturally Yours
November 29, 2025-January 3, 2026. Celebrating Christmas was a new idea to upper crust in the Victorian period but, in typical fashion, they threw themselves into it and took it to extremes, particularly when lavishly decorating their homes. Decorations at the time were largely homemade using whatever was available, and the one thing that was in abundance was nature… laurel, holly, boxwood, ornamental grasses, berries, and flowers all appeared in wreaths, garlands, and sprigs that decorated every room. And of course, there were Christmas trees.
History Museum at the Castle, Appleton. www.myhistorymuseum.org
Weis Earth Science Museum
Arriving fall 2025. The Weis Earth Science Museum will be relocated to the History Museum at the Castle. The public will continue to have access to lively earth science exhibitions and programming that benefit Fox Valley residents, schools, and universities. Adding the Weis to the History Museum’s dynamic local history offerings is also expected to grow the region’s tourist economy.
You Are Here
Ongoing. You Are Here tells a comprehensive history of the landscape, peoples, and cultures that have defined the Fox Valley since ancient times. Locals and out-of-town visitors alike find themselves here, in the history of Appleton and the Fox Cities. The custom designed exhibition features unique local artifacts, rare photographs, and stunning graphics.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan. www.jmkac.org
And I Will Tell You Mine
Through November 2. Wisconsin residents and John Michael Kohler Arts Center members were invited to submit an original work of visual, written, or performance art for this community-sourced exhibition. Each of the works selected for inclusion considers how people connect to “Place.”
Watts Towers in Focus
Through November 30. In the Watts community of southern Los Angeles, Sabata Rodia worked alone for thirty-four years building what became known as the “Watts Towers.” Seymour Rosen’s photography, ephemera from SPACES (Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments) Archives, and one of Rodia’s sculptures highlight the individuals and communities integral to the care and legacy of this monumental art environment.
Ashwini Bhat: Reverberating Self
Through January 11, 2026. The first midcareer survey of Ashwini Bhat’s work, Reverberating Self contains artworks made over the past decade, including ceramic sculpture, photography, video, and multimedia installations. All are part of Bhat’s ongoing project Assembling California. The exhibition illustrates her journey since moving to California—creating a new home and securing a sense of belonging through communion with her environment and art making.
Sarah Rowe: Water Ledger
Through January 25, 2026. Artist Sarah Rowe highlights the inspiration and impact of Lake Michigan, local rivers, and water treatment facilities on Sheboygan’s ecosystems and the individuals who call this area home. In addition to watercolor drawings, the exhibition features a large installation that incorporates elements created during community workshops.
Heidelbergology: Is It Art Now?
September 13, 2025- February 15, 2026. The Heidelberg Project in Detroit and its founder Tyree Guyton are approached as separate but interrelated creative forces that evolve, falter, and evoke. For the first time ever, several monumental, foundational sculptures have been pulled from the Heidelberg Project neighborhood lots to be featured in an exhibition. Accompanying the site-specific sculptures are examples of Guyton’s studio practice, including never-before-shown sketches, sculptures, and paintings.
Lawton Gallery, Green Bay. www.uwgb.edu/lawton-gallery/exhibitions
Dennis Bauer
September 3-October 2. Reception: September 10 from 4-8 p.m.
Aleksandra Morozova & Michael Ware
October 16-November 13. Reception: October 16 from 4-8 p.m.
52nd UWGB Student Juried Exhibition
November 20-December 11. Reception: November 20 from 4-8 p.m.
Mulva Cultural Center, De Pere. www.mulvacenter.org
Life In Space
September 26, 2025-January 5, 2026. Step into the world of astronauts and experience what it’s like to live and work in space. This interactive exhibition features a virtual reality International Space Station to “float” through, simulators to land the space shuttle and fly an F-18 Hornet fighter jet, a Multi-Axis Trainer that simulates a tumble spin during reentry to Earth’s atmosphere, various artifacts including space suits and shuttle tiles, and more. Location: Exhibition Hall.
Hugh Mangum: Where We Find Ourselves
Through November 12. A celebration of photographer Hugh Mangum, an American photographer who, from the 1890s through 1922, took photos in the American South at the height of Jim Crow. Unlike many photographers, he welcomed everyone to sit for his camera. This exhibition features color prints made from digital scans of black-and-white, dry glass plate negatives, exposed and processed by the photographer himself.
In the 1970s, Mangum’s glass plates were salvaged and donated to Duke University. In 1986, the plates were professionally cleaned and stabilized by highly trained conservators. They were photographed in high-resolution color with a digital camera in the 2000s. The damage and decay on the original negatives create vibrant portraits of forgotten individuals. Scratches, cracks, fingerprints, and delicate color shifts in the photos give the sitters’ faces new meaning. Printed in 2018, these photographs suggest that the distance between the past and the present is closer than imagined. Location: Atrium (Free).
Tactile Images: Seven Art Movements
November 19, 2025-February 11, 2026. Through the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Vermeer, and Vincent van Gogh, this exhibit delves into the history and evolution of seven critical art movements across time: The Renaissance, The Baroque, Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Expressionism.
The tactile images harness the senses of touch, sound, and smell to help the blind and visually impaired community experience visual knowledge in a meaningful way. In addition to 3D imagery, braille is used for text, and a combination of sensors are embedded in strategic locations to provide a customized, touch-activated narrative. Location: Atrium (Free).
Neenah Historical Society. www.neenahhistoricalsociety.com
Growing Up Neenah: An All-American Childhood
Through November 2026. Located in the historic Hiram Smith Octagon House, “Growing Up Neenah: An All-American Childhood” takes a unique look at what makes the childhood experience of growing up in Neenah special. Childhood is not simply a biological stage of life. It is the timeless, original adventure in which we all embark on. While the concept of childhood has changed over time, the experiences of those lucky enough to have grown up in Neenah have largely stayed the same. Unique to our city is the Rocket Slide at Riverside Park, Brigade and Camp Onaway, the Santa Float, the Neenah Pool, Parks and Recreation programs, fishing in waterways and so on. Growing Up Neenah means indeed having an All-American Childhood. The exhibit will feature unique stories from our History Harvest outreach.
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org
Mao Lor: A Journey through Hmoob Paj Ntaub
Through October 26. Mao Lor is a Green Bay artist and maker who has been creating Hmoob paj ntaub (Hmong textiles) that convey the vitality of Hmoob art, history, and culture for over forty years. The exhibition is organized by the Paine Art Center and Gardens in partnership with the Hmong Studies program at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
Materialized Again
September 13-November 9. Women Who Run With Scissors is a group of 14 women artists based in northeastern Wisconsin. They invite all to share their visions and dreams created with fabric, fiber and stitching. Each artist expresses her creativity with original art portraying real or imagined images, drawing the viewer in for a closer look.
KEEP OUR WATERWAYS CLEAN With Ed The Diver and Christie B
November 1, 2025-January 11, 2026. Our goal is to clean up our banks and waterways in the Midwest, set free water/wild life that are entangled in fishing line and hooks, find and return lost/stolen property, educate people through our videos, photos, public speaking, art and inspire others to clean up in their communities. We want our example to cause a RIPPLE EFFECT, which sends out waves of hope, care and a desire to treat our waterways and each other better.
80th Art Annual
October 18, 2025 – February 8, 2026. In 1942 museum director, Earl Wright, initiated a juried art competition. Since that time, the Art Annual has become an important bridge between the artistic communities of Northeastern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Holiday Memories of Downtown Green Bay
November 22, 2025-January 11, 2026. The animated figures that once adorned the H.C. Prange’s department store windows are featured in this exhibit along with the Enchanted Forest, the Snow Babies and charming forest animal collections. There also is a Children Only Shop, and Bruce the Spruce, the loveable talking Christmas tree who once chatted with holiday shoppers at Prange’s.
newARTSpace, De Pere. www.newartspace124.com
Grounded: Selections from Disruptions/Constructions by Steve Bliss and New Islands by Lee Mothes
September 12-October 26. The fall exhibition at newARTSpace features landscapes, both real and imagined. Kaukauna artist Lee Mothes has been collecting souvenirs from a location that does not exist other than in the drawings, paintings and maps he has created in his studio. Photographer Steve Bliss of Savannah, Georgia constructs landscape views that are powered by their subtlety and a narrative that derives from their dramatic attenuated form. Free and open to all.
Opening: September 12 from 5-8 p.m. for ArtNite in Downtown De Pere.
Oshkosh Public Museum. www.oshkoshmuseum.org
Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass
Through January 3, 2026. Explore the Tiffany Gardens in Glass exhibit showcasing Louis C. Tiffany’s enduring passion for nature and stained glass artistry. This unique exhibition features ten iconic Tiffany Studios botanical lamps and windows alongside nine original nature-study photographs from Tiffany Studios’ extensive reference collection.
Nature as Muse
Through January 18, 2026. Immersed in an unmatched original environment of Tiffany Studios design, a selection of beautiful decorative arts treasures from the Richard H. Driehaus Collection shed light on Louis C. Tiffany’s innovative design.
Menominee Clans Story
Ongoing. The Menominee Clans Story exhibition shares the heritage and complex systems of this Native American Nation through the superbly carved figures by Menominee traditional artist James Frechette Jr., Na:tamowekow (He Helps Someone, People) (1930-2006). Known to the Menominee people as Mama:ceqta:hsak (“The Little Menominee”), these intricately carved and painted figures stand between twelve and twenty inches high. Through an indigenous art form, Mr. Frechette faithfully captured the cultural dimensions of the ancient clan system, depicting dress, symbols, tools, colors, traditions, and many details of the Menominee way of life.
Tiffany Studios Treasures
Ongoing. The cornerstone of the Oshkosh Public Museum is the Historic Sawyer Home. This beautiful residence was built by Edgar and Mary Sawyer in 1908. Local architect William Waters designed the home, and Tiffany Studios of New York was hired to design and furnish the interiors. Today, the Historic Sawyer Home is the last original Tiffany Studios commission that is open to the public for viewing and enjoyment.
Paine Art Center & Gardens, Oshkosh. www.thepaine.org
The Nature of Light
Through October 26. See the historic Paine estate transformed into a spectacular showcase of illuminated sculptures and environments with the second incarnation of The Nature of Light, an immersive, nighttime experience harmonizing light, art, and nature. This mystical adventure brings visitors on a journey both inside the mansion and outdoors throughout four acres of gardens, wandering among numerous lighted vistas and sculptural displays where they can view, touch, explore, and play with the nature of light itself.
HYBYCOZO Sculptures in Daylight
Through October 26. View the striking HYBYCOZO sculptures featured in The Nature of Light during the daytime throughout the gardens and mansion of the Paine.
Nutcracker in the Castle
November 21, 2025-January 5, 2026. The beloved Nutcracker fairytale returns to the Paine “castle” with a mesmerizing array of sights, sounds, and surprises! From the opening party scene with a giant Christmas tree to the Land of Sweets and beyond, follow the adventure of Clara and the Nutcracker Prince – each elaborately decorated room of the historic Paine mansion reveals a new chapter of the story. As part of your journey, visit the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Cupcake Café for a scrumptious treat!
Photo Opp, Appleton. www.thephotoopp.org
Jaeden Hannus: something once was, something still is
Through September 13. An exhibition of new works by Jaeden Hannus, and the artist’s first solo show. Consisting of photography and sculpture, this exhibition looks to surface and traces, building on historical conversations and writing around photographic theory. “something once was, something still is” gathers images that linger—after the moment, after the gesture, after the surface has already begun to shift. It dwells in aftermaths, in residue, in the softened imprint of what has vanished. Each photograph proposes not certainty, but speculation.
Rahr West Art Museum, Manitowoc. www.manitowoc.org/1006/Rahr-West-Art-Museum
Art of Tablesettings
October 3-November 2. This annual favorite exhibit began in 1974, when Mrs. Ruth West organized an exhibit of tables inspired by works of art. The Rahr-West Art Museum is proud to keep this exhibit alive by inviting members of the public to create unique tablescapes inspired by works of art. Each year brings new and intriguing designs.
Richeson School of Art & Gallery, Kimberly. www.richesongallery.com/exhibits
Create! A Wisconsin Art Show Through October 24. Create! A Wisconsin Art Show was designed to encourage Wisconsin artists at every level of experience to create and exhibit artwork. Opening Reception and Awards: September 5.
Seymour Community Museum, Seymour. www.seymourhistory.org
World’s Largest Hamburger Collection
Ongoing. Items include an original Burger Time arcade game, burger telephones and radios, hamburger banks, burger candles, burger jewelry, watches and magnets, clothing, dolls, a battery operated burger skateboard and much more.
Trout Museum of Art, Appleton. www.troutmuseumart.org
A Tribute to Li Hu: Celebrating a Visionary Legacy
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. This retrospective honors the life and legacy of Li Hu (1950–2024), a revered artist and educator whose vision bridged continents and generations. Born into a family of artists in Shanghai, China, Hu’s artistic journey spanned decades and disciplines, culminating in a profound influence on the Midwest art community through his longtime tenure at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. Gallery: Bank of Kaukauna Wing: Frank C Shattuck Gallery.
Artist in Residence Group Show
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. The creative voices shaping the Fox Cities. This group exhibition features new work by the Trout Museum of Art’s former Artists in Residence: Ally Wilber, Karen Kjell, and Miranda Moeller. Gallery: Mary Beth Nienhaus Street Exhibition Space.
Guiding Ethos
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. Guiding Ethos is an invitational group exhibition of 25 artists whose practices engage storytelling as both record and resistance. Curated by Jenie Gao, the exhibition explores how art can serve as a tool for direct action, cultural stewardship, and community care. Through personal narrative, historical reflection, and collective memory, the artists in Guiding Ethos challenge dominant histories and imagine new futures. Their work, spanning installation, painting, textile, sculpture, and digital media, documents lived experience while actively shaping the social and cultural landscapes around them. Gallery: Jeweler’s Mutual Wing: Donald & Janet Turner and the Lane & Bridget Crane Galleries.
Home Rules
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. Home Rules is an exhibition by artist, writer, and curator Michelle Grabner. The exhibition is a celebration of the new Trout Museum of Art and a homecoming of sorts for the artist who grew up in Appleton until she began college at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1980. This inaugural exhibition at the Trout Museum of Art is a collection of new work that elevates and transforms commonplace and everyday materials into porcelain and bronze. Gallery: Boldt Wing: In Memory of Oscar C. Boldt Gallery.
Oncoming Close
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. Artist Beth Lipman explores what it means to leave a mark on the world; what remains, what fades, and what defines a moment in human history. Through intricate glass still life, Lipman creates sculptural time capsules that capture the natural and material objects shaping our present. Gallery: Bank of Kaukauna Wing: Marissa & Ryan Downs Gallery.
Ravelled Edge
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. Artist: Beth Lipman. Ravelled Edge is a site-responsive installation by Beth Lipman that reflects on this transitional moment, on the precipice of the existential threat of climate change. The installation occurs within the architectural space of two walls that paradoxically propose wilderness and domesticity. Glass, clay, wood, metal, and fresh-cut flowers invite the viewer into a delicate ecosystem. The meditation on impermanence is made visible through the juxtaposition of geological and human time scales. Gallery: Roger and Lynn Van Vreede Exhibition Space within the Community First Credit Union Gathering.
The Trout Collection
October 11, 2025-January 18, 2026. To celebrate the opening of our new building, this special exhibition shares highlights from The Trout Collection. The Trout Collection encompasses 180 works by regional, national, and international artists. The collection offers a dynamic glimpse into the stories, styles, and cultural moments that shape our world through art. Gallery: Boldt Wing: Sandra Lemke Trout Gallery.
Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Manitowoc. www.wisconsinmaritime.org
From Lake to Plate: Local Fishing Families & Foodways
Through October 27. Who are the people that bring you the fish that you eat? This exhibit features the work of two Wisconsin photographers, Tom Kutchera and Jim Legault, who captured the portraits of Wisconsin’s commercial fishermen, fish processors, delivery drivers, restaurateurs, and retail clerks over the past fifty years. These dynamic large format photographs and artifacts illustrate the evolving foodways of how fish are harvested from Lake Michigan, processed, and eventually arrive on our plates.
Wriston Art Galleries, Appleton www.lawrence.edu/music-arts
Women in the Rare Book Collection
September 26- November 21. An exhibition that examines the work of women authors through first editions in the Richmond Rare Book Collection.
Janis Mars Wunderlich, Ceramics
September 26- November 21. Artist Statement: I am a storyteller… translating my experiences into visual narratives that speak of vulnerability, turbulence, reciprocity, and resilience.
Lawrence University Art Collection
September 26- November 21. A semi-permanent installation of the art collection arranged around four themes that will be on view all academic year.
