Past Exhibits
Caroline S Mark Gallery
Historic ARTspective 2025
March 26 - May 23, 2025
In Historic Artspective viewers explore their past, connect to their history, and share their story. This exhibit features a selection of unassuming artifacts from the Marathon County Historical Society Collection. Regional artists were invited to create a work of art in their respective medium to be displayed next to its historic item. Explore the history of Marathon County's past and be inspired by its present.
Artists: Natalie Vilter, Ashley Kowalka-Lee, Diana Weber-Osypowski, Diane Shabino, Mary Robinson, Pachoa Yang, Ashlie Zeidler, Nancy Laliberte, Stephanie Kohli, Tiffany Rodriguez-Lee, Mara Mullen and Madison Hager
Vault Gallery
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
March 26 - May 23, 2025
Revisiting rural the landscape they grew up in, Robert Martin, imagines queer futures while honoring a rooted past.
The figurative work I create is a layered combination of rural aesthetics, queer historical references, inherited ephemera, personal imagery, and memory. Art-making – namely painting – allows me to tangibly imagine queer futures while honoring a rooted past by permitting these stories to coexist within one plane. As I ruminate on the interplay of these employed elements, I am cementing histories and generating utopias.
35th Annual Midwest Seaso
Exhibit Dates: January 8, 2025 - March 15, 2025
Exhibit Sponsor: Rudar Ware Juror: Matt Groshek
Original works draw inspiration from Midwest impressions and activities - the excitement of summer sports, the fresh scents of spring awakening, the warmth of a hot cup of soup in the bitter winter, or the crisp autumn colors.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Scott Adams, Kassandra Havel, Nathan Holder, James Arnold, Jody Beighley, Valerie Berkely, Chris Capista, Jeanette Clawson, Paula DeStefanis, Christy Douglas, Abigail Engstrand, Kristine Hinrichs, Nathan Holder, Carol Irving, Jayne Reid Jackson, Madeleine Kaudy, Nancy Laliberte, Janet Nelson, Tanya Otto, Mati Palm Leis, Brian Pirman, Jeffry Stern, Deborah Wage, Kathryn Wedge, and Richard Wunsch
Portals, Planets, and Petri Dishes
Exhibit Dates: January 8 - March 15, 2025
Reception Celebration: January 17, 2025, 5 - 7 pm (Snow Date, March 15)
Angela Piehl's collage-based prints and drawings evoke a range of possibilities. Piehl explores the medium of collage and its aesthetic as a metaphorical parallel to the process of composting-- a natural recycling of matter in which a prolific range of transformations occur. Dense spherical compositions hover like planets, or alternately, mimic microscopic views held within the ecosystem of a petri dish.