Travis Nygard, associate professor of art history and co-director of the Caestecker Gallery, has published the article “Complex Maya Computations: Math, Time, Astronomy, and Hieroglyphs” in the Dakota Digital Review, journal published by the North Dakota University System. “The article compares ancient Maya thinking to the digital world of today,” Nygard says. “It explores how […]
“Send in the Clowns,” an abstract painting from the collection of artist Claudette Lee-Roseland. ’60 of Cedarburg, Wisconsin, has been donated to Ripon College in her memory by her husband, Dean Roseland. Lee-Roseland died Oct. 3, 2021. At Ripon, she studied philosophy and psychology and participated in student government and Alpha Phi/Kappa Sigma Chi. She […]
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas was among five authors profiled on Wisconsin Public Radio Nov. 12. Salas is a contributor to the book Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic, edited by B.J. Hollars, published by Wisconsin History Press and available on amazon.com. Other contributors include Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly, […]
“Art, Activism & Intersectionality: An Exhibit of Contemporary Posters” will open Nov. 5 in Caestecker Gallery, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon College campus. A lecture and opening will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The exhibit will continue through Dec. 10 and is free and open to the public. Masks […]
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas has an essay in the newly published anthology Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic. The collection is edited by B.J. Hollars and published by Wisconsin History Press. Contributors include Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly, former poet laureates Margaret Rozga and Kimberly Blaeser, and other lauded […]
In-person art exhibitions will return to Ripon College Friday, Sept. 3, contingent on recommended guidelines about the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors to campus are requested to wear masks. Further information about Ripon’s updated COVID-19 policy can be found here. “More Scenes from Our Addiction to Fictions,” a show of new and recent paintings by Milwaukee-based artist […]
A 19th-century heliogravure print has been donated to Ripon College by Alan Leonard ’86 and his wife, Brenda, of Cape May, New Jersey. The print is made after Rembrandt van Rijn’s “Presentation in the Temple in the Dark Manner,” c.1654. It is now hanging in the Resource Center of C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. […]
The Ripon Historical Society will hold an ice cream social from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, at the Pedrick-Lawson House museum, one block from campus at 515 Ransom St., and the Pickard House, 508 Watson St. This summer, Associate Professor of Art History Travis Nygard and three students have been working with volunteers […]
Whitney Levash Meza ’09 of Ripon, Wisconsin, was featured in a recent article in the Ripon Commonwealth newspaper. “48 States in 10 Days: Ripon resident crisscrosses the U.S. via motorcycle” chronicle’s Meza’s completion of a motorcycle distance challenge across the lower 48 states. She rode 7,982 miles in nine days on a Harley-Davidson Pan America […]
Among the faculty honored at this spring’s Awards Convocation was Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas. Salas received the James Underkofler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. The award is named in honor of James Underkofler, past president and chairman for Wisconsin Power and Light, for his 48 years of service to the utility industry […]
“Reinvention, Revolution: An Experiment in the Museum of the Future is Taking Shape in Appleton, Wisconsin,” a review written by Professor Art Rafael Francisco Salas, was published recently by Newcity Art, a website dedicated to news, reviews and features about Chicago’s visual art world. “The review is of a ground-breaking exhibition at the Trout Museum […]
“Epilogue 2021: Ripon College Senior Art Exhibition” is on view through May 16. Those who are in the Ripon College campus community can view the artwork in the lobby of C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Members of public who cannot visit the campus in person can view the exhibit virtually at ripon.edu/senior-art-show. Studio Art […]
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas will give an in-person gallery talk at noon Saturday, April 17, at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, St. Kate: The Arts Hotel, in Milwaukee. There will be a tour of his exhibition “In Flowered Fields,” and he will offer insights into his work and his selections of art from […]
All may attend a guest lecture about arts education, arts management and professional practice to be presented Monday via Zoom webinar. Frank Juarez, art department chair at Sheboygan North High School, contributing editor of SchoolArts Magazine and publisher of Artdose Magazine, will speak for Professor of Art Rafael Salas’ Senior Studio Project students. The lecture […]
Today, April 2, is International Children’s Book Day, and we celebrate the recent publication of Richard the Chicken Eagle, a children’s book illustrated by Carissa Rivara Sorensen ’03 of Ripon, Wisconsin. At Ripon, Sorensen majored in psychobiology and minored in studio art. She loves drawing and painting, and has worked on commissioned animal portraits and […]
“An Unfinished Monument to Truth,” a virtual art exhibit by Mark Rospenda, will be on view April 2-30 at Ripon College. An artist’s talk will be presented at 7 p.m. April 2. Registration for the talk and a link to view the exhibit throughout the month is available at ripon.edu/art. Included in the exhibit are […]
Work by Tracy Featherstone, professor of art at Miami University, will be displayed Feb. 5 through March 5 at Ripon College. The on-site exhibit is open only to members of the campus community. A virtual exhibit of the works can be viewed by the public at ripon.edu/Featherstone. An opening artist’s talk will be held via […]
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas will present a virtual artist’s talk Thursday in connection with an exhibit at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, St. Kate: The Arts Hotel, in Milwaukee. “Into the Vault with Rafael Francisco Salas” will begin at 7 p.m. and live stream on Facebook and YouTube. He will show rarely-seen works […]
Two exhibits curated by art and museum studies students are on view on campus and online at Ripon College. Both exhibits are available for viewing through May 16. On campus, they are on view in the Ripon College Museum in West Hall. “Pastiche Painting: The Colorful and Cliché World of Paint-by-Number” explores this “interesting interaction […]
Work by Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas is featured in “What on Earth: Contemporary Artists and the Landscape,” an exhibit running through Feb. 12 at Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art in Milwaukee. “Work in this exhibition celebrates and underscores our environment, inching along the fault lines of climate change, polar ice cap melt, […]