04/21/2021
Don't miss a great artist talk tonight on zoom!
Meeting ID: 942 2751 1442
Passcode: Sculpture
Artists from Nothing Permanent Except Change as well as the Senior Solo Show will be speaking!
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The Watkins Gallery hosts student, faculty, and visiting artist exhibits within the Winona State Uni http://watkinsgallerywsu.tumblr.com/
The Watkins Gallery aims to bring together the Winona State University community with local Winona and Minnesota artists. 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!
Operating as usual
04/19/2021
Watkins Gallery: Senior art exhibitions - Winona Post > Article
Congrats to the seniors in Senior Seminar on their final shows, this week through 3rd of May!
https://www.winonapost.com/Article/ArticleID/72181/Watkins-Gallery-Senior-art-exhibitions
Winona State University’s Watkins Gallery is hosting two senior art exhibitions this spring, featuring work from nine artists.
04/19/2021
Here’s a sneak preview of the current student work in the Watkins Gallery! Come check out Nothing Permanent Except Change in socially-distanced person this week and attend the artist talk this Wednesday at 5pm
Find the zoom link and more on our website --> https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
04/06/2021
There’s a lot of great new faces waiting for you in the WSU juried student art show, FLO! Just check out our website at https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/ to start exploring the virtual gallery today.
This work is the third-place winner, ‘Tears of Wanderlust’ by Megan McCormick!
03/22/2021
FLO Watkins Gallery WSU 2021 Exhibition
Our Juried Student Exhibition, FLO, is on view virtually! Join for the reception and awards ceremony via Zoom this Wednesday at 5pm:
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/94227511442
Meeting ID: 942 2751 1442
Passcode: Sculpture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGbiGn8tt4U
Welcome to watch
03/11/2021
Students! Apply to this year's juried show!!!!
02/16/2021
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
A presentation by Linda LeGarde Grover and Angela Two Stars
This Wednesday, 2/17/21, at 5pm on Zoom:
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/8976193747
Free and no pre-registration required.
Sponsored by the Watkins Gallery and the WSU History Department.
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02/16/2021
Join us this Wednesday at 5pm for a conversation with Linda LeGarde Grover and Angela Two Stars about the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women.
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/8976193747
02/09/2021
Don't miss it! 👋
• The Watkins Gallery is showcasing Jamie Ho's photographic series, Canton Gulf.
• Be sure to visit the gallery for this special physical showing, the first one in nearly over a year!
02/09/2021
Come and check out the amazing photographic pieces!
🗣 Have you heard the news? Watkins galley has an in-person show! Come on in out of the cold and view the show Canton Gulf by Jamie Ho. Or if you’d prefer a cozy night home, check out our website for Jamie’s artist talk and a virtual gallery!
https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
02/08/2021
🗣 Have you heard the news? Watkins galley has an in-person show! Come on in out of the cold and view the show Canton Gulf by Jamie Ho. Or if you’d prefer a cozy night home, check out our website for Jamie’s artist talk and a virtual gallery!
https://educate.winona.edu/watkinsgallery/
12/03/2020
Art Hounds: Pandemic portraits in Winona
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.
11/24/2020
What do YOU see?
Why not take a stroll downtown and see what you can find?
11/24/2020
What are you looking at? 👁 👄 👁
Can you guess where this portrait is hanging in Winona?
11/22/2020
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?
11/21/2020
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/
11/19/2020
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
11/15/2020
"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
11/14/2020
“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
11/14/2020
"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
11/12/2020
"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!
11/11/2020
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!
11/10/2020
"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!
11/09/2020
"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
11/08/2020
"How can you take a photograph that gives a glimpse of what's underneath? ... What are you? What defines you?" - Wing Young Huie
11/08/2020
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?
11/06/2020
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!
11/05/2020
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!
10/30/2020
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!
09/23/2020
👋 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/
09/23/2020
🗣 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!
09/22/2020
Anne Wedler
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
09/18/2020
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.
09/18/2020
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?
09/15/2020
👀 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/
09/10/2020
Motomichi Exhibition
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
09/09/2020
Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Here's the info again for tonight's Artsist Talk!
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/95138437993
Password: PhotoRulz
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09/09/2020
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! ❤️🖌❤️
09/04/2020
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? 😏)
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Art Department, Watkins Hall
Winona, MN
55987
Opening Hours
| Monday | 9am - 4pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 8pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 4pm |
| Friday | 9am - 4pm |
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Videos
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.
Come to the gallery today!
Artist Talk
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"!
Kieran's Artist Talk
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!
...in the space between by Sharon Mansur
Don't miss the last studio/lab session of this dance exhibition today from 7pm - 9pm at Watkins Gallery.
An Acoustic Map of Winona.
Patience and Effort: Printmaking and Prairie
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! 😪😪😪
In the Shape of a City
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!
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Current exhibiting artist Kieran McDonnell is an emerging artist and painter based in Winona, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts in studio art from Winona State University and an Associate of Fine Arts from Rochester Community and Technical College - RCTC. Before relocating to Winona, McDonnell exhibited his work throughout the region at the Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Weber Gallery, Garage Co-work Space, and the RCTC Art Gallery. Recent works were featured in the Rockchester Festival virtual art exhibition. McDonnell is a 2019 recipient of the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council grant for emerging artists. More information about his current exhibit at the Art Center: https://rochesterartcenter.org/exhibition/kieran-mcdonnell/
Missing my PALS students so I decided to create this video to send to all the parents.
This is a stunning show by a wonderfully talented artist. Roger and the WSU Dept. of Art and Design thank you bringing this work to Winona. What a gift.