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Issued by: Beth Stafford
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bstaff@uwm.edu
Sept. 13, 2006
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Issued by: Beth Stafford
Phone: 414-229-4800
bstaff@uwm.edu
Sept. 13, 2006
MILWAUKEE – “Continuum 5(0),” which runs Sept. 15-Oct. 14 at the Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) galleries in the Arts Center, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., second floor, brings together the work of 55 University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Department of Visual Art alumni spanning the five decades of UWM’s history. The exhibit is part of UWM’s 50th anniversary celebration.
“Continuum 5(0)” opens with a reception on Friday, Sept. 15, from 5-8 p.m. and includes a gallery talk by Graeme Reid at 6 p.m.
Josie Osborne, director of community outreach, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design; Graeme Reid, assistant director, West Bend Art Museum; and Inova Director Bruce Knackert selected artists representing each of the five decades of UWM’s history. The artists also represent a diversity of media and approaches.
According to Osborne, who received a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from UWM in 1989, “Since graduating, I have never stopped believing in the importance of the studio training that I received or the power of belonging to a diverse community of colleagues and friends who shared my passion for art.” Osborne says it was inspiring to see “alumni who graduated long before I set foot on campus, still actively working and exhibiting.”
An alphabetical listing of the artists in “Continuum 5(0)” follows.
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Brett Angell |
Jw Lawson Catherine Loss Ed Lund Mark Mcbride Kevin Muente Thomas Nawrocki Christopher Niver Andrew Novak Deidre Prosen Rob Pudloski Barbara Reinhart William R. Schuele Paula Schulze Sylvia Sherr Sophie Sindahl-Invernesse Jean D. Sobon Richard Taylor Christel-Anthony Tucholke Tom Uebelherr Dean Valadez Eduardo J. Villanueva Sandra Wagner Patricia Weise Linda Wervey Vitamvas Sarah Zamecnik Kimberly Zsebe |
Three other fall exhibitions commemorate UWM’s 50th anniversary.
A retrospective, “Nature Up Close: The Work of John Colt,” opens Sept. 22 in the Union Art Gallery, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., first floor. Colt, who taught at UWM from 1957 until his retirement in 1990, is best known for huge oil and acrylic paintings that evoke nature at its most minute.
“Continuum: Lutz/Emmons & Stoeveken/Cououlos-Selle” opens Oct. 20 in the Inova galleries in the Arts Center. It features the work of two former professors, sculptor Frank Lutz and printmaker Tony Stoeveken, and two of their former students, Carol Emmons and Stephanie Copoulos-Selle. The exhibition continues through Nov. 18.
“Continuum: Verne Funk” opens Oct. 27 and continues through Dec. 10 in Inova’s Mary L. Nohl Galleries located in the Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., third floor. It features ceramic sculpture and drawings by alumnus Funk.
A catalogue encompassing the four exhibitions is available at the Inova location in Vogel Hall, 3253 N. Downer Ave., the Union Art Gallery and at each opening. The cost of the catalogue is $50, a portion of which will be donated to the Department of Visual Art’s scholarship fund.
Hours for the Inova galleries in the Arts Center are noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Hours for the Inova Mary L. Nohl Galleries are noon-5 p.m., Wednesday-Sunday, and during selected performance events in the Zelazo Center.For more information, phone 414-229-5070, e-mail knackert@uwm.edu, or visit arts.uwm.edu/inova.
Hours for the Union Art Gallery are noon-5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and noon-7 p.m. Thursday. For more information, phone 414-229-6310 or visit www.unionartgallery.uwm.edu.
All galleries are open to the public, and there is no admission charge.