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About the Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist Endowment In 2015, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Department of Art and Design received a $1 million gift from alumna Annette (Derge) Schuh ’71 and her husband Dale. The endowed gift supports an annual visit of a visual artist of a significant stature to campus. Kiki Smith is the first artist in the Schuh Visiting Artist Program. When she came to UW-Whitewater to study English in the late 1960s, Annette Schuh was the first in her family to go to college. One semester, the professor in her arts appreciation course brought renowned American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein to campus “This was a ‘wow’ experience for me,” Schuh said. “I can still picture him on the stage, in front of a slide show, talking about his art.” Other prominent artists like Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley followed. After Thiebaud’s visit, Schuh went back to her room, pushed aside her artwork and began afresh. In the end, the visits transformed her relationship to art, caused her to change her major and, ultimately, altered the course of her life. “Someone did this for us 40 years ago,” she said, explaining that at some point she realized that, for an art icon to visit campus, significant funding must have been available. Schuh and her husband, who was also a first-generation student, saw they could make a similar gesture, one that caps a long legacy of support for the arts community in their hometown of Stevens Point. “We wanted to do something outside the normal scope, something that could supplement the college experience and really spark a young person’s future,” said Dale Schuh. UW-Whitewater continues its service to first-generation students, with 40 percent of current students being the first in their families to go to college. “I’m thinking about all the amazing opportunities for our students who are going to benefit from this,” said Chancellor Beverly Kopper. “A gift like the Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist Endowment opens the world and makes it much larger.”
GALLERY
Kristyn Martin Untitled
Alyssa Leikam
De Juan Mason
Gavin Christianson
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A Womb to
Fractured
Consider
Shauna Volkening
Diana Urbina
Mia Villarreal
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Jacob Fischer Like
Mutope Johnson Baldwin
Kaitlin Meinders
Willy Jewer
Nicholas Spaethe
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Sabertooth
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Emily Orsted
Ashley Miller
Adventure (Red)
Helene Ramsdell
Silors
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Megan Bienkowski
Dan Welden
Elizabeth Toth
Ladies Man
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Helene Ramsdell Bob-Tailed Squid
Jade Slojkowski
Tessa Weber
A Wall
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Jennifer Pender Untitled
Metrice Bell Fleeting Thoughts in Color
Paige Seinbach Eight
Alison Campbell Interpretation
Olivia Holland Untitled
Courtney Huschka
Megan Brush
Lauren Hawthorne
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Metrice Bell
Alison Campbell
Fleeting Thoughts in Color
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Alec Schweiger Untitled
Hannah Smith
Adonna Glass
Tenaya Mars
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Birth
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Bethann Moran-Handzlik Door to the Apiary
Hailey Paulson Untitled
Morgan Buchanan
Serena Johnson
Megan Sundquist
Baby Cows Running
Hannah
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Daren Moran
Eric Gefert
Gavin Christianson
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Winter Fun
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Helene Ramsdell
Morgan Buchanan
James Cunningham
Bob-Tailed
Woven
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Squid
Emily Barnes
Emily Orsted
Juilia Forsberg
Born a Toucher
Adventure
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Mogan Buchanan Ascension
Kiki Smith The UW-Whitewater Department of Art and Design is pleased to announce the premiere Schuh Visiting Artist, Kiki Smith. She will be conducting a free public lecture on her work in printmaking on Monday, March 6 at 7:00 pm in the Young Auditorium, located in the Greenhill Center of the Arts, 930 West Main Street, Whitewater. During her weeklong residency on campus, Smith will be engaged in the creation a set of three photopolymer prints working alongside UW-Whitewater faculty and students. This is an incredible opportunity for UW-Whitewater art students to observe an internationally recognized artist at work and to learn from her expertise. Artist Kiki Smith is a prolific printmaker, photographer and sculptor with a history of innovative investigation of materials and deep conceptual research in these disciplines. Her artwork focuses on the body and sexuality – specifically regarding the differences between private perceptions and public stereotypes. Resisting both modern and classical notions of
beauty, her work dives deeper to expose the inner life of the flesh. Often, Smith draws upon themes of death, sexuality, and vulnerability to explore gender and the concept of the feminine. Later in her career, Smith explored famous women of history, from Lilith to the Virgin Mary to Little Red Riding Hood, in a continuation of her refashioning of typical representations of women in myth and literature. Smith’s work has been the subject of over 25 solo museum exhibitions worldwide representing a continuously expanding and evolving a body of work that includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and textile. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Tate Gallery. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, Smith has received several awards including the 2012 U.S. State Department National Medal of Arts conferred by Hilary Clinton, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Award for Creativity and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and Columbia University. Smith has been represented by Pace Gallery, New York since 1994. Annette and Dale Schuh established a Visiting Artist Endowment in 2015 in honor of the experience Annette
had at UW-Whitewater as an undergraduate interacting with notable and spectacular visiting artists. It is with this remarkable donor intent that artists of prominence and significant stature will visit UW-Whitewater on an annual basis. To that end, the Department of Art and Design brings to campus prominent artist Kiki Smith to inaugurate this exciting interaction with worldclass artists and UW-Whitewater art students.
Internationally renowned artist Kiki Smith works alongside UW-Whitewater Students.
Kiki Smith Hand
Kiki Smith Tulips
Graditude Dale and I thank you enthusiastically for the wonderful inaugural visiting artist residency. It was so interesting to be in the room with Kiki Smith as she was beginning to explore ideas and handle materials that would lead to her final prints. Dan Weldon was so personable and had such great rapport with the students. I felt very privileged to be able to try my hand at making a print using Dan’s process. Printmaking is something with which I had very little experience: just one undergraduate course in a makeshift classroom after Old Main had been destroyed by fire. Many, many thanks to the faculty and staff who spent numerous hours planning for all the details that were involved in a residency of this magnitude. We are looking forward to many subsequent years of visits from major artists to inspire students on the campus I hold so dear. Gratefully, Annette and Dale Schuh
"My professors and these special guests left their prints, which remain to this day, on my life and work." —Annette Schuh, class of '71, on her experience working with artists Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T. Wiley while a student at UW-Whitewater
Artist Index Adonna Glass
Elizabeth Toth
Jennifer Pender
Mutope Johnson
Alec Schweiger
Emily Orsted
Juilia Forsberg
Nicholas Spaethe
Emily Barnes
Kaitlin Meinders
Olivia Holland
Kiki Smith
Paige Seinbach
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pg. 13
Gavin Christianson
Kristyn Martin
Serena Johnson
Hailey Paulson
Lauren Hawthorne
Shauna Volkening
Hannah Smith
Megan Brush
Tenaya Mars
Helene Ramsdell
Mia Villarreal
Tessa Weber
Jacob Fischer
Megan Sundquist
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pg. 17
Willy Jewer
Jade Slojkowski
Metrice Bell
James Cunningham
Morgan Buchanan
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pg.14
Alison Campbell pg.14
Alyssa Leikam pg. 6
Ashley Miller pg. 9
Bethann Moran-Handzlik pg. 15
Courtney Huschka pg. 13
Dan Welden pg. 10
Daren Moran pg. 17
De Juan Mason pg. 6
Diana Urbina pg. 6
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Eric Gefert pg. 17
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The Annette and Dale Schuh Visiting Artist Program