Departments

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

Faculty Exhibition

September 12 – October 10. Allen Priebe Gallery. UW Oshkosh Art Department Faculty will share their work representing varied media including ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture.
Reception: September 12 from 6-7:30 p.m.

Kaden Van De Loo

September 12 – October 3, 2024. Annex Gallery. Kaden Van De Loo’s paintings explore formal relationships through recurring geometric forms bound to a system of constraints. The reappearance of the same geometric forms across the body of work allows them to become familiar to the viewer, but their endless material manifestations and relationships mean constant reconsideration. His forms exist in a flexible space and his single-colored grounds flatten the

Advanced Critique

November 18- 22, 2024. Annex Gallery. This exhibition features the work of current UW Oshkosh students who are in the process of working through ideas in the studio. The exhibition is an invitation for public feedback and encourages discussions on process and future projects.

BFA Studio Art

December 5 – 12, 2024. Allen Priebe Gallery. This exhibition features the work of seniors graduating with a BFA in 2D and 3D Art at UW Oshkosh in the Fall of 2024. Reception: December 5 from 6-7:30 p.m.

Amanda McCavour

October 24-November 21, 2024. Allen Priebe Gallery.

Amanda McCavour is a Toronto-based artist who works with stitch to create large-scale embroidered installations. Amanda’s work explores embroidery’s duality: its subtle quality versus its accumulative presence and its structural possibilities versus its fragility. Artist Talk: October 24, 5-6 p.m. Reception: October 24, 6-7:30 p.m.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah. www.bmmglass.com

Sharon Fujimoto
Through February 16. Based in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin, artist Sharon Fujimoto creates art and functional objects using glass as the basic medium. She believes in the simplicity of form and color and the fact that “…’accidents’ are a beautiful thing.” She says, “I am not the master of my medium, I simply go with the flow as a witness, a participant and a supervisor. The end result is a one-of-a-kind object that will hopefully endure trends and fads – a piece that will make a connection with the artist and the viewer.” As a result of her selection as the 1st place winner, sponsored by Rosann Baum Milius, of the 2023 GLASS Arts Festival, Fujimoto’s art will be on exhibit in the museum’s Blue Gallery through February.

Farm to Flame: The Artwork of Gene Koss
September 20 – February 9. Gene Koss uses steel and glass to create monumental works. Working with serial cast glass parts to enlarge scale and combining these elements with iron and neon, he has raised glass sculpture to the realm of public art. Koss’s work has had a profound impact on American artists working in both steel and glass media. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Arts; the New Orleans Community Arts Award; and Pace-Willson Art Foundation grants. His work is included in numerous private collections and has been displayed in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad.

The Building for Kids Children’s Museum, Appleton. www.buildingforkids.org

Food To Grow
Ongoing. Kids and their grown-ups can explore the whole food system with the Building for Kids Children’s Museum’s newest permanent exhibit, Food to Grow. Visitors can visit the farm, pick up food at the market and food pantry, cook in the kitchen, and enjoy a meal around the table with family and friends. This exhibit explores concepts such as food sourcing, food choice, food equity, and the cultural significance of food.

The Studio

Ongoing. In this completely refreshed exhibit sponsored by School Specialty, kids and their grown-ups can create to their heart’s content. The Studio has a wide range of tools for young artists to explore and activities are always changing.

The Lab

Ongoing. Explore the scientific method in this new space sponsored by Amcor! Children will develop their skills of inquiry, collaboration, and communication by exploring a daily question through facilitated activities and experiments.

Hearthstone Historic House Museum, Appleton. www.hearthstonemuseum.org

Cloth and Canvas
September. This exhibit emphasizes the birth of the impressionist art movement starting with the display of Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise in 1874. Located throughout the museum, the exhibit will highlight Hearthstone’s remarkable historic clothing collection alongside museum-quality reproductions of avant-garde French 19th century art depicting articles of clothing similar to pieces in the museum’s collection. Available on regular daytime tours, or as the focus of a specialty tour: Cloth and Canvas: Fashion, Impressionism, and America on September 20 and 21.

Victorian Mourning Exhibit
October. Hearthstone will have every room dressed for Victorian mourning tradition with mirrors and shining surfaces draped in black fabric, pictures of loved ones turned downward, black ribbon and wreath on the front door. Guests can view items that Victorians created to help them mourn, including hair jewelry, post-mortem photography, clothing and more. This is available for viewing during regular daytime tours, or our special weekend nighttime Haunted Hearthstone performances!

Victorian Christmas Exhibit
December. A special exhibit of “Christmas Through the Years” features each room depicting different themes Hearthstone has offered in the past. The house will explode with decorations at every glance and in every space, including many decorated trees, lights, and garland in line within the mood of the early 1880s from which most of our Christmas traditions arose. This can be viewed during regular daytime tours, or our special weekend Victorian Christmas Evening events with live music!

History Museum at the Castle, Appleton. www.myhistorymuseum.org

Our Afghan Neighbors, Traveling pop-up exhibit, opens August 22

Our Afghan Neighbors are like us. They value education, freedom, and democracy. They worked and fought for those ideas in Afghanistan. That struggle, eventually, led them to new lives in Appleton. This is the story of our Afghan neighbors…in their own words.

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

Water Sprouts and Remains (an unfolding)
Ongoing. Commissioned for the Sandy Sachse Gratitude Fountain, which celebrates the dedication, passion, and generous contributions of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s most devoted leaders.

No Grout
Through October 6. In 1974, artists began entering Kohler Co. to create ceramic works on the factory floor using tools and methods most of them had never had access to before. Regardless of their technical experience and knowledge of the medium, the artists-in-residence face a substantial learning curve to become acquainted with factory schedules, equipment, and processes. The Kohler associates and Arts/Industry studio technicians assist the artists in meeting these challenges.

Lunch Break: Arts/Industry in Between
Through January 5, 2025. Lunch Break: Arts/Industry in Between celebrates that powerful exchange between artist and associate through artwork made in the factory. It brings forward the conversations and relationships that happen as a result of making art.

Workplace

Through January 19, 2025. This interactive space takes its cue from the innovative pairing of arts and industry that defines the Arts/Industry residency. In the gallery, demonstrations, lectures, hands-on workshops, and skill-sharing opportunities will connect visitors with the processes and techniques implemented by artists and industry workers.

Kimberly Public Library, Kimberly. www.kimberlypubliclibrary.org

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Traveling Exhibit
September 2-27. Learn about the summer that changed voting to this day. Display will be available throughout the month of September. Exhibit on loan from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

National Railroad Museum, Green Bay. www.nationalrrmuseum.org

Pullman Porters: From Service to Civil Rights
Ongoing. The immersive exhibit, displayed in the Museum’s Lenfestey Center, features a restored 1920s Pullman sleeper car, the Lake Mitchell. The exhibit is supported by interpretive elements in and around the car. Exhibit elements include a computer-generated porter with interactive capabilities inside the car, original artifacts, and a touch screen computer kiosk.

General Motors Aerotrain
Ongoing. The Aerotrain was designed to lure the general public back to railroads and provide an inexpensive solution for railroad companies to provide a higher-speed, public rail service. The Builders Model of the General Motors Aerotrain stretches about 35 feet long and is a popular exhibit at the Museum.

Railroad Tools: Building for our Future
Through December 31. Explore tools that were used for building the railroads and investigate how new technology is used. The exhibit will be showcased inside the Museum’s Fuller Hall Gallery.

Neenah Historical Society. www.neenahhistoricalsociety.com

Neenah – Menasha Sesquicentennial: Two Cities, One Community
Through October. The Neenah Historical Society has partnered with the Menasha Historical Society to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of our cities. This new exhibit features a historical overview of the people, places and things that make Neenah and Menasha special.

Neville Public Museum, Green Bay. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org

Sayaka Ganz, EmergenceThrough September 29, 2024. Sayaka Kajita Ganz was born in Yokohama, Japan and grew up living in Japan, Brazil, and Hong Kong. She earned an MFA in 3D Studies with concentration in sculpture from Bowling Green State University and a BFA in Printmaking with a minor in Theater and Drama from Indiana University. Ganz utilizes reclaimed plastic objects like brush strokes which appear visibly unified at a distance though separate at close proximity. She describes her style as “3D impressionism.” Sculptures in this exhibition include recent work depicting animals in motion, which are rich in color and energy that create an illusion of form.

Telling Our Stories
Through November 3, 2024. LGBTQ+ history extends long before the iconic Stonewall Uprising and milestone historical moments continue to be made daily. Explore some of the courageous pioneers, influential moments, and hard-won victories for the LGBTQ+ community at the local, state, and national level.

The 79th Art Annual
From October 19, 2024- January 12, 2025. An all-media, juried exhibition of current artworks produced by artists living in the counties of Northeastern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. This juried art exhibition began in 1942 during the height of World War II. For over three-quarters of a century, many of this region’s most celebrated and talented artists have exhibited their work as part of this Green Bay tradition. The juror for the 79th Art Annual is Paul Salsieder.

Holiday Memories of Downtown Green Bay
From November 23, 2024 to January 26, 2025. 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. Bruce the Spruce, the lovable talking Christmas tree who once chatted with holiday shoppers at Prange’s, is awake at select times to talk with guests.

newARTSpace, De Pere. www.newartspace124.com

Other World
From September 13 to October 19. Kristine Granger from Marquette, Jason De Marte based in the Ann Arbor area, and Don Krumpos from Algoma, inhabit the galleries with photographs, installation art and watercolor drawings that are the creations of their unique imaginary abilities.

Oshkosh Public Museum. www.oshkoshmuseum.org

Tiffany Studios Treasures of the Historic Sawyer Home
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. Visit and explore the Historic Sawyer Home: the last original Tiffany Studios commission open to the public to visit and enjoy.

Menominee Clans Story
Ongoing. Connect to traditional Menominee art and culture through the intricate carvings of late Menominee artist James Frechette, Jr. (1930-2006), which embody the Menominee ways of life.

Alluring Art
Ongoing. Once created as tools of the hunt, fish and waterfowl decoys have emerged as a distinct folk artform. Alluring Art gathers examples of Wisconsin carvers’ expertly handcrafted decoys, each with intricate details and unique designs, illustrating how decoys evolved from utilitarian objects to works of art delighting the expert and casual observer alike.

1920s Oshkosh: Colorful Times in Black and White
Ongoing. See Oshkosh, 100 years younger! Catch glimpses of familiar places and feel the hubbub of a changing city in this archival photography exhibition.

People of the Waters
Ongoing. Discover the prehistoric past of the Lake Winnebago watershed! This immersive exhibition travels through 13,000 years of history from the last Ice Age through the Fur Trade.

This Is Winnebagoland
Ongoing. The Lake Winnebago region, once promoted as a recreational paradise, is home to timeless adventure! Enjoy the competition, camaraderie, and community through the years of sporting and recreation history brought to life.

Paine Art Center & Gardens, Oshkosh. www.thepaine.org

Microsculpture: The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss
Through October 13, 2024. Examine extremely fine pigmented scales, velvet-like surface textures, saw-sharp mandibles, swirling patterns and some of the most vibrant, iridescent colors seen in nature with large-scale photographic prints by British photographer Levon Biss. Each beautifully lit image was created from around 8,000 individual photographs taken under strobe lights, capturing the microscopic forms of insects in striking, high-resolution detail.

A Cabinet of Wonder: Artworks by Jennifer Angus
Through October 13, 2024. Using exotic insects as her primary artistic medium, Jennifer Angus designs elaborate installations and narratives comprised of thousands of preserved specimens. With these compositions, she explores themes of beauty, pattern, ornamentation, Victorian-era natural history collecting and scientific discovery, relationships between humans and insects, and the important roles insects play in ecosystems.

Rahr West Art Museum, Manitowoc. www.manitowoc.org/1006/Rahr-West-Art-Museum

The Art of Tablesettings: 50th Anniversary
October 4 – November 3, 2024. 2024 marks the fiftieth anniversary of this annual favorite. Along with unique tablescapes inspired by works of art we will also recreate some tablesettings from years past in the historic Vilas-Rahr Mansion.

Christmas In The Mansion
November 27, 2024-January 5, 2025. Each year a fantastic group of volunteers decorate the Victorian Vilas-Rahr mansion.

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.

Weis Earth Science Museum, Menasha. www.uwosh.edu/weis

Walk Through Wisconsin’s Geologic Past
Ongoing. Walk through time with fossils from all of Wisconsin’s major geologic ages and explore the state’s mining history.

Wisconsin Maritime Museum, Manitowoc. www.wisconsinmaritime.org

Tiny Art Show
Through January 2025. The Lakeshore Artists Guild in partnership with the Wisconsin Maritime Museum presents the annual Tiny Art Show!  Each work of art cannot exceed 6 inches in size, and features a variety of media, styles, and concepts.

Wriston Art Galleries, Appleton www.lawrence.edu/music-arts

Visualizing Material Science
From September 27 to November 22. Professor of Physics Margaret Koker exhibits visual and artistic renderings that reflect her scientific research using x-ray techniques to study materials, their composition, and their behavior.

Christopher McNulty, The Days Series
From September 27 to November 22. Christopher McNulty’s diverse body of work has explored the limitations of human thought and performance, and the tensions that exist between our ideals and everyday lives. For his Days Series, McNulty used the probable number of days that he had left to live as a starting point, creating works composed of over 20,000 repetitive marks in an attempt to represent the remainder of his life and comprehend his mortality.

10 Years Out
From September 27 to November 22. This exhibition features work by LU studio art alumni from 2014-2023. Marking the 35th Anniversary of the dedication of the Wriston Art Center, this show and attendant programming exemplify the many different career paths a studio art major might pursue after in their life after Lawrence.