1. PRINT BIENNIAL 1: An Exhibition of Traditional and Digital Printmaking and Photography

Eric Dean Gallery and Permanent Collection Gallery, Randolph Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center, September 5 through October 8, 2005

Opening Reception Monday, September 5, 8-9:30PM

This exhibition is a national print invitational organized by the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, which showcases contemporary currents in print media.  The works selected for this touring exhibition include a range of traditional approaches to printmaking and photography, as well as, works that reflect artists’ incorporation of digital media into their print practices.  The exhibit consists of 61 works by 33 artists who examine the changing directions of the contemporary print.

2. MAURA SCHAFFER: RECENT WORK

Eric Dean GGallery, Randolph Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center, October 24 through December 9, 2005

Opening Reception Monday, October 24, 8-9:30PM

Artist Maura Schaffer’s work uses the familiar imagery of domestic life to convey aspects of what it means to be human.  The stylized sculptural forms of chairs, tables, windows and doors are created to suggest human activities like dancing, fighting or lovemaking.  The anthropomorphic qualities of the work bring our own human patterns to mind – eating, moving, resting and communicating.  She says of her work, “I explore how different media, materials, and textures can be integrated to create sculptures that connect with the human condition.”  Schaffer, a member of the Purdue University Art Department, has created works that are both objects and installation based.  The artist will be on campus for activities surrounding the exhibition opening.

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3. 19^th CENTURY PRINTS FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART

Permanent Collection Gallery, Randolph Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center, January 23 through March 1, 2006

Opening Reception Monday, January 23, 8-9:30PM

            This exhibition features a collection of nineteenth-century prints from the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.  Focused on the theme of Romanticism, the show highlights art by the movement’s best-know European and American representatives, including Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, William Blake, Joseph William Turner, John Constable, Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church.  The subjects represented reflect the range of Romantic interests from landscape and history to dreams and the imagination.

4. GREGORY HUEBNER: RECENT PAINTINGS

Eric Dean Gallery, Randolph Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center, February 17 through April 7, 2006

Opening Reception Friday, February 17, 4:15-6PM

This exhibition will present the most recent abstract paintings by Gregory Huebner, Professor of Art and Chair of the Wabash Art Department.

5. WABASH SENIOR ART MAJORS EXHIBITION

Eric Dean Gallery and Permanent Collection Gallery, Randolph Deer Art Wing, Fine Arts Center, April 17 through May 14, 2006

Opening Reception Monday, April 17, 8-9:30PM

This year’s annual exhibit for senior art majors will present paintings by Adam Miller, ceramics by David Murphy, and sculpture by Billy Whited and Tim Parker.

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