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Ruth Foster Art Gallery Past Exhibitions

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A janitors broom leans against a white pedestal. An acrylic container is attached to the broom handle and a spider plant grows from the container.

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I Make This, You Make That

Married for sixteen years and raising two kids, the artists Edward and Emily do not collaborate in the studio. However, with distinctly individual motivations for making, living life together allows formal qualities to overlap in their artwork as they explore similar themes. Although each artist makes under a separate practice, both continue to celebrate the joy of objects and the life they’ve created for their family. Featuring artwork by Edward Kelley and Emily Newman.

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Body Parts

“Body Parts” explores the human body from the microscopic to the metaphysical realm through photomicrographs, medical images, and realistic and interpretive anatomic works by professional artists and by UWEC students. The exhibit focuses on six organs: bones, brain, heart, kidney, lung, and skin.

Mixed media sculpture primarily using soil lays on the ground while a chain of suringes stretches out across the floor. A large drawing with orange and yellow hues hangs on the wall behind the sculpture.

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Flores Nocturnas (Blooming at Night)

“Flores Nocturnas (Blooming at Night)” includes drawings, paintings, collages, and mixed media installations by Mexico-City based artist Sofia Moreno that drag and meld Mesoamerican symbolism with queer nightlife artifacts and self-portraiture to envision trans femme legacies centering pleasure, kinship, and futurity.

Sculpural installation lays on the floor in the gallery with a large mural wheat-pasted to the wall in the backgound

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Fenced Waves

Socially engaged interdisciplinary artists Sherrill Roland and Antoine Williams investigate cultural identity by exploring power, migration and parameters; and the complexities of liminal spaces of existence in contemporary Black life. The "Fenced Waves" exhibition includes work from Roland's "Jumpsuit Project" - inspired by his 10 months in prison for a crime he did not commit and was later exonerated for - and Williams' audio collage sound installation, "Othered Suns" that deals with the themes of migration and the body. Both artists' create work that illuminates social and political constructs and generates an inclusive space to process, question and share.

A poem printed on large paper hangs from the ceiling while artwork rests on pedestals in the background

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Exchanges: Dialogues between Poetry and Art

This exciting juried exhibition consists of both visual and literary art; poets writing original poems inspired by a selection of professional visual artworks, and visual artists creating original works inspired by a selection of professional poems.