Art Gallery
CONTACT
Katherine Ralph, Art Gallery Director
Learning Resource Center
Phone: 715-365-4556
Email: kralph@nicoletcollege.edu
Nicolet Art Gallery Facebook Link
The Nicolet Art Gallery is located on the first floor of the Learning Resources Center. The gallery serves as a teaching gallery with Nicolet art classes continuously using the current displays for reference and study. It also serves as a place for professional artists from the Nicolet District and beyond to display their work. Gallery hours are listed below and the gallery is also open during most Nicolet Live! theatre presentations.
The gallery schedules shows each year which function as a learning service to the area's elementary and secondary school students. In 1988, Nicolet and the Northern Arts Council began hosting the Northern National Art Competition.
Gallery Hours
Fall and Winter Hours
Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday - Saturday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Summer Hours
Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
2010-11 Exhibits and Events
Betty LaDuke – Dreaming Cows Mural Project
September 15 - October 16
Betty LaDuke is an artist and educator who served as our judge for the Northern National Art Competition in 2009.
In 2007 Oregon artist Betty LaDuke was invited by Heifer International (HI) to create a mural for their Murphy-Keller Education Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Dreaming Cows Mural Project, 7' tall x 90' wide, evolved as a series of 27 individually cut and shaped plywood panels, approximately 7' x 4' each, representing HI projects around the world. Since they are also reproduced in gicleé print format, it is possible to present the Dreaming Cows Mural Project in our gallery.
Heifer International is a nonprofit, humanitarian organization dedicated to ending world hunger and saving the earth by providing livestock, trees, training and other resources to help poor families around the globe become self-reliant.
Treewhispers
October 22 - November 13
Reception: October 23, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm outside of the LRC, weather permitting
Area HS students, Nicolet students, faculty and general public will be invited to work with Eagle River artist and papermaker Debra Jircik to create work which will be included in the exhibit. Participants will be able to make paper and/ or decorate the finished paper and/or write their stories/poems on the paper.
Treewhispers is an ongoing international collaboration involving handmade paper, art and stories honoring trees as a symbol and a resource. Treewhispers was initiated in the year 2000 by artists Pamela Paulsrud and the late Marilyn Sward. The project has been presented in a multitude of venues while gathering round, handmade papers from participants around the world. On the papers, contributors have remembered a tree or the spirit of a tree.
Some contributions are simply a magnificent example of beautiful handmade paper and some include text and/or imagery. Some suggest tree rings, depict leaves or illustrate a personally significant tree; others are imprinted with a poem or a meaningful story relating to trees.
Nicolet Open: Tolerance, Diversity and Coexistence
November 20 - December 15
Reception: November 20, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
CALL for ARTISTS – non-juried, themed exhibit. All artists are welcome to interpret these thought provoking words in any way that they are moved to do. This year our theme reflects some of the concepts in our campus and community read: Persepolis. Artists do not need to read the book to participate.
Perpetual Motion – Christine Alfery, Karen Kappell, and Friends
December 20 – January 29
Reception: January 15, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Reflections on Guatemala
February 4 – February 18
February 4, 7:00 pm Presentation by Ocie Kilgus and participants from their study tour to Guatemala.
Art Department Faculty Exhibit
February 23 – March 31
RECEPTION: March 5 in conjunction with the Nicolet Live! Jazz concert with Desiree Wattelet
Bob Kanyusik, Barbara Buckel, and Daniel Goscha
Earth Week in the Gallery
April 4 – April 9
Call for Artists: All area students and community are welcome to create posters, pictures, poems and graphics to be hung for one week of environmental awareness.
Nicolet College Art & Graphic Design Student Exhibit
April 15 – May 15
May 10 Graphic Design Portfolio Show
The 2011 Nicolet College Student Graphic Design Portfolio Show will be held on Tuesday, May 10 from 5-6:30pm in the gallery of the Learning Resources Center (LRC) on the Nicolet College Campus. The show features the design work of the students completing the Graphic Design degree at Nicolet College. Student portfolios will showcase an array of original design work in both print and digital media. Following the portfolio show, the Digital Media Art students will host a Student Film Festival in the LRC Theatre at 6:30pm. The film festival showcases original video and motion graphic design work of the students completing the Digital Media Arts certificate. Both events are free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.
Nature, Travel & Adventure - Through the Eyes of Artist Betsy Popp & Photographer Rick Eyre
May 20 - June 10
Reception: May 20, 7:00 pm
Townsend artist and educator Betsy Popp and Wausau photographer Rick Eyre will both have their work on display in this exhibit. They each have traveled extensively and this is reflected in their work. Betsy will have her MFA thesis paintings up in part of the gallery and the rest of the work will be interspersed in the other two rooms. Betsy works in a variety of mediums which include detailed wood sculptures, vibrant pastels, fine pencil drawings, acrylics, watercolor, and oil.
Rick Eyre’s photographs include landscapes, wildlife, and human-made scenery that he has discovered during 35 years of travel around the world. His subject matter ranges from the abandoned mill towns of the Colorado Rockies to the Byzantine Churches of the Greek Islands, from the egrets of the Florida Everglades to the Eagles of Alaska. He is based in Central Wisconsin.
WRAP – Wisconsin Regional Art Program
June 17 – July 9
Workshop: July 9, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Call for artists: The Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) provides statewide art workshops and exhibits for nonprofessional artists. It began in 1940 to encourage creative growth in emerging or hobby artists particularly those living rurally.
Work is shown in a noncompetitive exhibit in your community. Meritorious work is selected for the Annual State Art Exhibit in Madison. The workshop on the last day of this exhibit includes:
- A demonstration or slide lecture by a professional artist.
- The exhibition judge will answer questions on design, composition, and technique at a group critique and evaluation discussion.