The Watkins Gallery hosts student, faculty, and visiting artist exhibits within the Winona State University Art Department. The Watkins Gallery aims to bring together the Winona State University community with local Winona and Minnesota artists.
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Our aim as an organization is to create an open space of creativity for students, artists, and those within the Winona community. Follow us on Tumblr for further updates on gallery openings, shows, artists, staff, and opportunities! http://watkinsgallerywsu.tumblr.com/
Operating as usual
Big-ups to Mary Farrell (can someone tag her in the comments?) for promoting the Pandemic Portrait exhibition on MPR's Art Hounds program!
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/12/03/art-hounds-pandemic-portraits-in-winona
The exhibition remains on view through December 9th.
Plus a new jazz album from the High School for Recording Arts and jewelry by St. Paul artisan Peter Mielech.
What do YOU see?
Why not take a stroll downtown and see what you can find?
What are you looking at? 👁 👄 👁
Can you guess where this portrait is hanging in Winona?
Here is a screenshot of Wing Young Huie's Chalk Talk Workshop earlier this semester!
Some of the questions asked in the workshop are:
What are you?
How do you think others see you? What don’t they see?
What advice would you give to a stranger?
What is your favorite word?
Describe an incident that changed you.
How have you been affected by race?
What would you answers be?
Hopefully you were able to join Wing Young Huie's virtual artist talk! Wing covered the philosophy of his works, his approaches to taking photographs, and the fight for social justice in his front yard. His work is still available to view through our website: https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/wing-young-huie/
Reminder of our artist talk by Wing Young Huie from 5-6pm this afternoon!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/95138437993
Meeting ID: 951 3843 7993
Passcode: PhotoRulz
"Maybe the process of photographing, of talking and interacting with strangers, was as important if not more important than the resulting photograph" - Wing Young Huie
Find out more about Wing Young Huie's career from our enticing podcast, link here! ➡ https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/artist-talks-and-conversations/
📸 by Autumn Vietor
“I had an exhibit in Frogtown...And that was my first solo show. Don’t have an art degree, didn’t grow up in art culture, and that was my beginning of my career.” - Wing Young Huie
Hear more from the podcast with our featured artist, Wing Young Huie, on our website! https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
📸 by Ia Xiong
"I don't even remember at what point I was even able to call myself an artist, even though I had a book published. It was intimidating"
-Wing Young Huie
"All of my projects are a form of journalism"
-Wing Young Huie
View his virtual art show at https://www.artsteps.com/view/5f8d10b32fa6970f1d4eb25d?currentUser so you can see if you can find the story behind his photographs!
What's your favorite thing about Winona? While you think about it, make sure to check out the full show of people living their ordinary lives during the pandemic on display downtown now!
"I had a lot of doubts about being an artist, because I didn't grow up in an art culture... It took a while for me to gain the confidence to do my first project." - Wing Young Huie
Sometimes making art can be daunting, but seeing the world through someone else's eyes is always worth it. See more of these evocative portraits now on 3rd Street downtown!
"The best compliment I ever got was from a 6th grader... He said, 'I really like your pictures'. I said, 'Great. What'd you like about them?' He said, 'They're real." - Wing Young Huie
Come on down to 3rd street and see the real faces of Winona in the Pandemic Portraits show by WSU students in collaboration with Wing Young Huie
"How can you take a photograph that gives a glimpse of what's underneath? ... What are you? What defines you?" - Wing Young Huie
Some of the portraits can be surprising! Winona is a rich and varied community, many sides of which can be seen downtown right now! Who will you see?
Have you heard the news? The Winona Portrait Project was featured in the Winona Post! Read more about the project here --> https://winonapost.com/Arts-Entertainment/Art/ArticleID/70720/Photographing-life-amid-the-pandemic, then head downtown to see all the portraits!
Why not take advantage of the nice weather to take a tour of our newest public exhibition downtown? It's a great opportunity to check out local businesses and see our community with fresh eyes!
Watkins Gallery, Winona State University's cover photo
Check out our exhibition, Pandemic Portraits, installed in storefronts on 3rd Street in downtown Winona! Photographs are at the southeastern corner of Main and 3rd Streets, 67 East 3rd Street, 119 and 121 East 3rd Street, and on the southeastern corner of 3rd and Walnut Streets. The exhibition is on view until December 9th!
👋 HEY! Watkins Gallery would appreciate if everyone could do their part by wearing a mask! 🤔 Yeah, it's not ideal but maybe... MAYBE if we wear our masks, things could get better. 😌
Until then...
Please visit our new website featuring virtual exhibitions, information about our current gallery shows, and more!
educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
🗣 Don't miss the artist talk tonight at 5pm! We'll be hearing from Anne Wedler about her process and current exhibition, Group Dynamic (Which you can view here: https://www.artsteps.com/view/5f455b2b7c2555019c0b32cb?currentUser&fbclid=IwAR1Lnbrci--1DxRRzNy6JvtBqmgTGa9cTrg1_sDSo8i_2752wmOYJP1jot0)
The talk will be in the Zoom room 95138437993, password PhotoRulz
We hope to see you there!
Good Morning everybody! We know you've been on the edge of your seats, but the wait is over, Anne Wedler's virtual exhibition is published and ready for you! 😁 One of the positives of our online exhibition is there is no max capacity! Share the link with friends, family, neighbors, boss, heck even the mail person! We look forward to sharing this beautiful work with all of you.
"I like balancing the fun of chaos with the dual joy and torture of intimacy; solitude as a sanctuary and penance.” ~Anne Wedler
https://www.artsteps.com/view/5f455b2b7c2555019c0b32cb?currentUser&fbclid=IwAR1Lnbrci--1DxRRzNy6JvtBqmgTGa9cTrg1_sDSo8i_2752wmOYJP1jot0
Our second virtual exhibition is on its way! We are excited for you to view Anne Wedler’s work. She is an observational painter interested in narrative and visual metaphor. You can really see her love of storytelling through her figure painting! Visit https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/ to view the virtual exhibition and listen to our podcast interview with the artist.
We may not have much 💔 but what we do we offer! 🙈 Today we have a challenge for all you art lovers! 🖼💕🎨 Can you recreate your favorite famous work in emojis?
👀 DON'T MISS OUT! 👀 Tomorrow is the final day of Motomichi Nakamura's Virtual Exhibition.
...but don't worry! You will still be able to find his work on the "past exhibitions" page on our website 😊
https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/about/
Don't forget- Motomichi Nakamura's online exhibition is still available for viewing! The interactive exhibit can be found at the link below, perfect for a cloudy day like today!
https://www.artsteps.com/view/5f4555408d80b0017b5b2b9a
Here's the info again for tonight's Artsist Talk!
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/95138437993
Password: PhotoRulz
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It's only been a day, but we miss you all so much! 😭 It's extra hard when your only building-mate only wants to pick fights 😔 If you miss art as much as we miss you, you're in luck! We have a great artist talk lined up for Wednesday at 5pm with visiting artist Motomichi Nakamura! The Zoom link is on our website under 'Artist Talks and Conversations'. We hope to see you all there! ❤️🖌❤️
Seems like someone’s mad 😡 no one is visiting them in quarantine! Sorry we don’t waste our time on making flashy websites 😤, I guess we were too busy being a place of responsible distance learning 🧑🏫 and contributing to education 📚✏️! Still, you can even find us on the Watkins website at educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/ (Are you sure it’s not named after the building? 😏)
👋 HEY! You ever heard of Weber Gallery? 🤔Yeah, me neither. But maybe you’ve heard of Watkins Gallery, the groundbreaking art gallery provided at the heart of Watkins Hall. Please visit our brand new and exciting website featuring information about our current and upcoming gallery shows. For the record, Weber Gallery doesn’t even have their own website, what a drag. 🙄
educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
Just want to take a minute to thank our friends River Arts Alliance - RAA for sharing our events even when we don't have to time to ask them to do so! Thanks RAA!
Friday | September 4 | 3:00-4:30pm Zoom: educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/ The WSU Art Department is excited to host acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie over Zoom. Huie will conduct workshops w…
We invite you to experience our first virtual exhibition of the semester, featuring the work of Motomichi Nakamura.
Nakamura is a highly versatile artist who has exhibited and screened his work all around the world, more recently becoming one of the first two resident artists in MTN Virtual Residency!
We are so excited to be able to share his work with you- for an interview with the artist, virtual exhibitions, and additional upcoming events at WSU this fall:
Upcoming Exhibitions Motomichi Nakamura: August 26th–September 15th Motomichi Nakamura is an animator, projection artist and lecturer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born and raised in Japan. He attended Parsons School of Design in NYC where he studied Communication Design and Illustration. He lived...
Even though we here at Watkins miss seeing everyone in person, we are committed to upholding the safest environment possible. !!This year Watkins Gallery is SO very proud to announce the launch of our OFFICIAL WEBSITE!!
Here are just a few things you can find:
- Virtual Exhibitions = All Exhibition spaces are available to view virtually any time during the artists show.
- Podcast Interviews = 'Warming up with a Warrior' is a chance for Winona State art students to chat with visiting artists about the reality of being an artist.
- Zoom Artist Talks = Links to upcoming Artists Talks.
We want to keep our students and visitors as engaged as ever, arguably more so, during this time of virtual learning and social distancing. We hope you all love it as much as we do!
https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
Upcoming Exhibitions Motomichi Nakamura: August 26th–September 15th Motomichi Nakamura is an animator, projection artist and lecturer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born and raised in Japan. He attended Parsons School of Design in NYC where he studied Communication Design and Illustration. He lived...
We are ramping back up for a season of some virtual, some public exhibitions! Whooooooot!!!! We have some fantastic artists visiting over Zoom this fall. More info to come soon...
Even if we won't be gathering in groups at the gallery together any time soon, we still truly are a community of artists.
A beautiful mural in honor of George Floyd by WSU grad Jose Dominguez:
https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/arts-entertainment/minnesota-artists-george-floyd-public-art-murals/
Jose Dominguez is among the many local artists who have created pieces to honor Floyd
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Check out this virtual recreation of the Watkins Gallery made in Google Sketchup that showcases all the actual two-dimensional pieces from Winona State's Juried Exhibition, Art and Beyond.
Hey Everyone, My name is Kieran Mcdonnell, I'm a Studio Art Major graduating this semester. Sorry this is a little late, but here is my artist talk from last week for Fluid Studio. It was such a privilege to work with five awesome artists (Kenneth Tham, Olivia VanDenBerge, Jesse Peterson, Fiona Larson, and Dana Langworthy) in this exhibition. Enjoy. P.S.- come check out the latest exhibition of senior work called "Roots"!
Hey all, Here is the video of the Artist Talk for Kieran McDonnell's Select Senior Show "Generations". It is open until the 12th so hurry in and check it out before it is gone.
You’ll regret it if you miss ART MUSE WATKINS GALLERY EXHIBIT OPEN NOW ➩ APRIL 12
Come and see Charles Matson Lume’s Exhibit “The Sheer Absoluteness of Being.” It will only be up for a few more days! Also grab a copy of his (free!) book that’s available right outside the gallery!
Don't miss the last studio/lab session of this dance exhibition today from 7pm - 9pm at Watkins Gallery.
Anda Tanaka's exhibition, "Patience and Effort: Printmaking and Prairie" is on view for only one more week!
Last evening to see Yuge Zhou's amazing exhibition, "In the Shape of a City. We are sad to see it go! 😪😪😪
Come see Yuge Zhou's exhibition, "In the Shape of a City" tomorrow. The gallery is open on Wednesdays until 8pm!
"In the Shape of a City" opens tomorrow! Come join the Department of Art and Design tomorrow for visiting artist Yuge Zhou's talk at 5pm in the Science Lab Center room 120 with a reception at the gallery (with cupcakes) to follow! Below is a look at Zhou's work "Underground Circuit". Videography by Andrew Thoreson
Thanks Address/Reject!
Goodbye, Address/Reject! It has been a terrific run.
We will be posting some documentation and highlights from last semester over the next few days…up first, Professor Cohenour's Modern Dance class interacts with art in the gallery!
Here is a short video tour of the McKnight Exhibition…tomorrow is the last day for this great show!
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