Past Exhibits

Artist Ian Van D. installed his site-responsive sculpture AMASS on the Nicolet College Campus this summer. This project was part of a series of outdoor installations that present household and rural material as ceremonious gatherings. To create these works, Ian uses barn wood, disregarded fence posts, old frame boards, and of course sticks and bark from the land to create totemic structures, eventually installing them directly into the ground as groupings or gatherings. The objects are meant to haunt the spaces they are installed in, and they take on an eerily figurative posture, looming over their peers, and jutting into and out of our environment. AMASS at Nicolet College is part of a larger series of installations across the United States. To learn more about Ian Van D. and his work please visit www.ianvand.art.

Environmental Art is a great way to connect with our natural world and immerse yourself in the creative process while having fun outside. Do you want to reduce your stress by spending more time outside doing something creative? Or do you just love making things and just want to try something new? Environmental Art is a growing field in the visual arts and there are numerous artists around the world making exciting Environmental Art.

This is an opportunity for you and maybe your family, to learn how to make your own site-specific environmental art installations and to learn about this growing field from artists and educators. Thielking and Robinson will give a presentation introducing environmental art, its history, and a range of exciting contemporary works in the field. They will also talk about their own environmental work and their collaborations with the international Catching A Wave Collective (CatchingaWave.org). Participants will be making several environmental site-specific works, will document them and share them through a virtual gallery, and will be invited to share their work with other participants in a follow up conversation. No experience necessary and all ages welcome.

Instructors: Lisa Beth Robinson & Kristin Theilking
10 am - noon
Saturday, May 22
$25
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Participants will be mailed supply kits or can pick them up at Nicolet College and invited to the class via email. Zoom links will be available for a limited period of time after the live class.

Learn a variety of journaling techniques using simple materials. Experiment with warm-up exercises, problem solving, and capturing ideas on the fly. Create a mini book in class, have fun, and find inspiration in your portable studio.

Instructor: Angela Johnson
9 - 11 am
Saturday May 1 $25
*Students will need a notebook and basic art supplies
Register by April 17
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Participants will be mailed supply kits or can pick them up at Nicolet College and invited to the class via email. Zoom links will be available for a limited period of time after the live class.

Nicolet Students exhibit their drawings, paintings, ceramics, and photography. The work is the result of a variety of exercises assigned by their instructors. The students are working with foundational principles of art such as composition, contrast, design, color, line, shape, and value. In life-drawing classes, students gain a better understanding of anatomy in order to draw and paint portraits and figures.

Explore printing on paper and cloth with plants. Debra will share the basics of this process of exploring the natural world through the creative process. Each participant will be sent a kit of plant materials and paper/silk to do their own printing along with a resource guide. Participants will need to furnish rubber gloves, water, a pan with a lid (note: this is not suitable for kitchen use after using for this process) and a hot plate or stove to steam their prints. Optional supplies from your own kitchen waste and foraging will be listed in your kit. Instructor:

Debra Jircik
10 am - 1 pm
Saturday, Mar. 20 $40 (includes a $15 supply fee)
Virtual Zoom Class
Register by February 27
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Participants will be mailed supply kits or can pick them up at Nicolet College and invited to the class via email. Zoom links will be available for a limited period of time after the live class.

Have you always wanted to try intaglio printmaking, but it always seemed too intimidating? Fear not! We’ll be scratching our designs into a small Plexiglas plate and using our cars (that’s right – CARS) to print the plate onto paper. You’ll be amazed by the results and get hooked on drypoint.

Instructor: Mel Kolstad
3 - 5 pm
Wednesday, Mar. 10 $35 (includes a $10 supply fee)
Virtual Zoom Class
Register by February 17
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Participants will be mailed supply kits or can pick them up at Nicolet College and invited to the class via email. Zoom links will be available for a limited period of time after the live class.

This class will teach students of all skill levels to approach their drawing practice mindfully. Highlighting similarities between the practices of mindfulness meditation and observational drawing, Instructor Jaron Childs will work with students to develop a patient, open approach to drawing their subjects. The class will focus on doing away with self-criticism while still maintaining artistic rigor as a way of developing a satisfying, lifelong relationship with drawing.

Instructor: Jaron Childs
2 - 4 pm
Thursday, Feb. 25 $40 (includes a $15 supply fee)
Virtual Zoom Class
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Participants will be mailed supply kits or can pick them up at Nicolet College and invited to the class via email. Zoom links will be available for a limited period of time after the live class.

Brought to you by Nicolet College Arts as an opportunity to unleash your creative side. Pandemic Portraits is an art challenge, a visual art installation, a time capsule, and a way to express our own mental and emotional reaction to a very challenging time. You do not have to be an artist to participate in this challenge. The goal of this project is to collect creative impressions from the community as a response to the pandemic.

Who

You are the artist. Who or what you choose to create a portrait of in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is up to you.

What

You will be mailed a 4X6 postcard on which you are asked to create a portrait of this pandemic. How you chose to interpret that and what medium you choose is entirely up to you. Write it. Print it. Draw it. Collage it. Paint it. The opportunities are endless. If you are a performing artist you may put a link or QR code to a song or video that can be found online. If you are not an artist you may test that notion with this challenge. Upon completion of your art work simply place it in a mailbox addressed to: Art Gallery // PO Box 518 // Rhinelander, WI 54501

When

Artwork will be accepted on an ongoing basis. The show will be added to as work comes in creating its own viral impression on the walls of the Nicolet College Art Gallery until April 24, 2021. You will not receive your artwork back but it will be included in a time capsule to be sealed for 25 years at Nicolet College along with other objects representing our time.

Where

While the college campus is closed, watch Nicolet College Art Gallery’s Facebook page for submitted images and installation photographs.

This pop-up exhibition will take traditional craft fairs and flea markets to the next level. Artists and artisans, as well as small producers, will share their work with each other and the larger community, developing a network of creative entrepreneurs.