Image: Joe Geshick, Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe, The Welcoming, 2004, Oil on canvas, 72 x 84 in. (182.9 x 213.4 cm) Collection of The Acreage of Osceola, WI. On loan from Kiran Stordalen Trust.
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Iowa
Voices Studios | Dubuque
Tides of Mentorship: Between Water and Land
through July 28
Tides of Mentorship: Between Water and Land offers a compelling dialogue between two artists—teacher and student—each exploring distinct facets of human connection to the environment.
Michigan
DeVos Art Museum | Marquette
17th Annual North of the 45th
North of the 45th is an annual juried exhibition of artists living north of the 45th parallel in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. It highlights a diversity of artists working artists from rural and urban areas in this upper Midwest region.
Minnesota
Rochester Art Center | Rochester
Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers
through July 21
Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers features work in a wide variety of painting media and esthetic approaches by 29 artists, including Frank Big Bear, David Bradley, Awanigiizhik Bruce, Andrea Carlson, Avis Charley, Fern Cloud, Michelle Defoe, Jim Denomie, Patrick DesJarlait, Sam English, Carl Gawboy, Joe Geshick, Sylvia Houle, Oscar Howe, Waŋblí Mayášleča (Francis J. Yellow, Jr.), George Morrison, Steven Premo, Rabbett Before Horses Strickland, Cole Redhorse Taylor, Roy Thomas, Jonathan Thunder, Thomasina TopBear, Moira Villiard, Kathleen Wall, Star WallowingBull, Dyani White Hawk, Bobby Dues Wilson, Leah H. Yellowbird, and Holly Young.
Wisconsin
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass | Neenah
Language of Light: Stephanie Sara Lifshutz
through October 13
Stephanie Sara Lifshutz is an artist and educator residing in Brooklyn, New York. She began working with glass while studying at the University of Wisconsin – Madison as a graduate student. As an undergraduate, she attended Franklin & Marshall College, where she studied photography and printmaking. Stephanie’s work is currently part of the traveling group exhibition, She Bends. A solo exhibition of her work, no time at all, was exhibited at Var Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2022. Other solo exhibitions include but i don’t mind, UrbanGlass, 2020 and PLEASE GO AWAY, Rare Air, Governor’s Island, New York. She was the recipient of a 2016 professional development grant from the University of Wisconsin. She currently teaches at Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Center for the Visual Arts | Wausau
Change Of Physical State: Metal, Stone And Glass
through August 10th, 2024
Artists manipulate metal, stone, and glass to change their physical state, the form the materials take before us. This juried exhibit highlights the mediums Metal, Stone, Glass, and the various ways artists manipulate the materials to create their artwork.
James Watrous Gallery | Madison
5-10-100: Women Artists Forward
through August 4
5-10-100 is an exhibition celebrating the groundbreaking Women Artists Forward Fund and the fifth anniversary of the Forward Art Prize. Over its first 5 years, it has recognized 10 remarkable women artists, and awarded $100,000 in unrestricted grants to support their work. Co-founded by artists Brenda Baker and Bird Ross in 2019, the Women Artists Forward Fund was created to address gender disparity issues that affect women artists, providing them with financial resources to strengthen their work as well as recognition and community support. This exhibition celebrates the 2019-2024 Forward Art Prize recipients: Jennifer Angus, Adriana Barrios, Mary Bero, Yeonhee Cheong, Angelica Contreras, Lilada Gee, Dakota Mace, Katherine Steichen Rosing, Alice Traore, and Babette Wainwright.
Kim Storage Gallery | Milwaukee
Memorable Ordinary
July 19 – August 31, 2024
“Memorable Ordinary,” an exhibition by Wisconsin-based mixed media artist Megan Woodard Johnson. Her art delves into the rich landscape of everyday experiences, layering vintage paper ephemera, paint, and found objects to evoke nostalgia and shared histories. Johnson’s works, such as “New Box of Crayons” and “Walks to School,” capture the beauty of seemingly mundane moments that resonate universally.
newARTspace | De Pere
Wisconsin Visual Artists: Art at LARGE
through July 20
newARTSpace is pleased to host this juried show for the North East Chapter of the venerable membership Wisconsin Visual Artists. Craig Blietz served as juror, selecting works from Pat Bishop, Diane Canfield Bywaters, Mari Anna Chism, Debra Davis-Crabbe, Dan Cross, Gary L. Gossens, Debra Lee Heilwig, Jean Judd, Tania Nelson, Suzy Pfeifer, Jan Mirenda Smith, Christine Style and Kathryn Wedge.
OS Projects | Racine
Sarah Leuchtner: Processing Skies Past
through July 13
Sarah Leuchtner’s work explores memory, loss and transformation through a painterly lens while reflecting on what it means to be an artist in a post-internet era. In Processing Skies Past, Leuchtner convenes her enigmatic alphabet of invented shapes with an expansive range of studio and industrial materials—from paint and collage to zip ties and chain link fencing—to make sense of a year marked by profound grief but also love, friendship and opportunity.
Racine Art Museum | Racine
RAM Showcase: Kinngait Prints
through August 10
Part of the RAM Showcase series of exhibitions centering the work of artists of color, this exhibition is a sampling of prints from RAM’s collection created by Inuit artists in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset).
Rahr West Art Museum | Manitowoc
Wisconsin Pastel Artists Exhibition
through August 4
The Rahr-West Art Museum is pleased to present That Special Place, a juried exhibit of pastel art by Members of the Wisconsin Pastel Association. The Wisconsin Pastel Artists is a dynamic group of artists working in the pastel medium.
Rountree Gallery | Platteville
Shootapalooza Group Exhibition
through August 10
Wisconsin photographers Patricia Delker, Anne Stack Connor, Angela Johnson, Carolyn Knorr, and Vicki Reed are members of Shootapalooza, an International Invitation Group established in 2014 to foster creativity, collaboration, and community. In this exhibit, each photographer explores her area of interest ranging from symmetry in nature, the elegance of the horse, the ability to relate to 1930’s movies, and secrets of dolls. In addition to traditional photography methods, alternative processes like cyanotypes, lumen prints, hand-painted images, and gold leaf prints will be shown.