Crossman Gallery

Senior Show
December 10 – 15

BFA Exhibition
December 3 - 8

Students graduating from the UW-W Art Department present their creative work in these group shows. The exhibits typically feature works in all fine arts media including painting, drawing, printmaking, book arts, sculpture, metals, ceramics and computer assisted design.

BFA Entry and Junior Review
November 26 – 30

Faculty members utilize the review to select new students for entry into the BFA Program and to assess the progress and determine the graduation status of Junior BFA track students.

Scholarship and Creative Achievement Exhibition
November 20 - 21
The 20th Annual Recognition Reception will take place on Wednesday, November 21

This exhibit provides a forum for Faculty and Academic Staff to display published research and creative activity from the past year. The exhibit offers visitors the opportunity to examine scholarly publications and creative works from across a range of disciplines and investigative pursuits.

Paper Politics
October 18 – November 17
Josh MacPhee will be on campus to talk about the exhibit on Monday, September 10th.
Opening remarks and reception: October 18th from 5-7 pm

  
Oil Soldier by Nicolas Lampert War is People by Eric Triantafillou Commander’s Report by K Webb

This exhibit has been organized by Josh MacPhee and will showcase print art that uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political conversation. The exhibit has been displayed in other venues across the country, but will be augmented by regional artists for the exhibit here. Because of its accessibility and reproducibility, activists have long used print art as a communication tool in struggles for freedom and social equality. The bold graphic qualities made possible by printmaking techniques are used to communicate with and educate broad audiences all over the world.

Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Check it out at: Justseeds

The Graphic Works of Leon Pescheret
September 6 – October 13

Leon Pescheret was a noted artist, interior designer and printmaker who lived in Whitewater for over thirty years. While the interior design business was his mainstay career, his printed works were much in demand and he was an award-winning artist who often lectured about art around the country. Some of the works will come from the University Collection while local and regional collectors will provide others.

The Leon Pescheret exhibit in the Crossman Gallery has been a popular destination for students, faculty and community members, and as a result, several new works have been added to the show. The Taft Family of Whitewater contributed three prints to the exhibit; two are Wisconsin scenes and the third depicts a Southern mansion framed by live oaks with hanging Spanish moss. All three are large format color etchings. In addition to these new works, several original printing plates have been brought in to the gallery.

These printing plates will be available for view during a print demonstration that will take place on Wednesday evening, September 26th at 6 pm in the gallery. During the demonstration, gallery director Michael Flanagan and art student Bradley Corso will explain the process of producing an etching and printing an intaglio print, the process that Leon Pescheret employed. The gallery is also offering this event as an opportunity for anyone to bring in other Pescheret material that they would like to share with visitors between 6-8 pm.

Coming Home to Whitewater: Looking Back, Going Forward
June 29 - July 5, 2007

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The Crossman Gallery will be hosting an exhibit of historical artifacts in conjunction with the celebration of the 2007 Whitewater Home-Coming.
for further information, please link to this site

Whitewater Home-Coming

This exhibit will feature artifacts, images and memorabilia associated with the City of Whitewater to highlight the celebration of the 100th Year Anniversary of the 1907 Homecoming. The Home-Coming Festival of 1907 was a major event for Whitewater that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the town’s first settlement. Lasting four days (July 4 - 7, 1907), the festival featured “exercises” (speeches and other pagentry), dances, a parade, balloon ascensions, baseball games, a lawn ornamentation contest, and a water fight between two crews of firefighters, among other things.

The festival was the brainchild of Normal School President Albert Salisbury, who had returned to his previous home in Brodhead, Wisconsin, where he had been Superintendent of Schools, and witnessed that town’s Home-Coming celebration. Duly inspired, he returned to Whitewater determined to mark the town’s 100th anniversary with such an event. He placed an open letter in the newspaper on August 6, 1906, inviting interested citizens to convene for the purpose of “deciding whether such a festival shall be undertaken.”

Storysite activity – another new record for site activity!

Last week activity at the Storysite was at a new all-time high of 292 unique visits (the previous week there were 266 visits), and these visitors viewed 2,074 of the Storysite’s pages (the week before there were 1,799 page visits). Each day last week an average of 292 pages of Whitewater’s memories were visited! The Storysite is reaching people from all over the world – the first twenty visitors to the site yesterday were from places as nearby as Jefferson and Oconomowoc, but as far away as Los Angeles, Florida, and yes, Australia! Thanks to the contributions of a growing number of you, there’s a lot of Whitewater’s history to see and experience on the Storysite. Click onto the Whitewater Home-Coming link above to visit the Storysite.

Memory of the week – Recollection from a 100 year-old son of Whitewater!

Philip Weinberg – Whitewater native and current resident of San Francisco who recently turned 100 years old, and contributed a fond memory of Whitewater upon receiving a proclamation from City Manager, Kevin Brunner.

Whitewater Home-Coming story site for Philip Weinberg

Wisconsin Regional Art Program
June 2nd – June 23rd
Artwork due: Saturday, June 2nd, 2007, 9am-11am (2 piece limit)
Workshop: Saturday, June 23rd, 2007 9am-3pm
This exhibit is designed to allow artists in our region to have an opportunity to display their creative works in the areas of painting, graphics, sculpture, crafts and photography in a professional gallery setting. A guest artist review and critique with UW-W Professor Xiaohong Zhang will take place at the closing of the show on June 23rd to facilitate feedback with artists participating in the show.
Coordinator: Mary Lou Lindroth