UWM’s Department of Visual Art invites you to participate in the fifth annual installment of our campaign to build a Visual Art alumni/student community; to celebrate past achievement and current successes; and to foster interactions between current students and their alumni predecessors. In 2006-2007, which coincides with UWM’s 50th anniversary, the Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) will be presenting a series of exhibitions featuring our alumni.

Continuum 5(0), a juried exhibition that will feature alumni work from each of the five decades of UWM’s existence, is the first of these exhibitions. Continuum 5(0) opens in the Inova/Arts Center Gallery on Friday, September 15, 2006 and continues through Saturday, October 14. Please join us for an opening reception from 5-8 pm on September 15. Click here for the call for entries.

Professors Emeriti Tony Stoeveken and Frank Lutz will share an exhibition with two of their students, Stephanie Copoulos-Selle and Carol Emmons, in Inova/Arts Center (October 20-November 18, 2006). The opening reception, on October 20, is from 5-8 pm.

Alumnus and ceramic sculptor Verne Funk will be the subject of an exhibition in Inova/Zelazo, the Mary L. Nohl Galleries (October 27-December 10). The opening reception, on October 27, is from 5-7 pm.

A catalogue will be published for the 50th anniversary exhibitions, and the Continuum 5(0) artists will be featured in the catalogue and on the Peck School of the Arts web site. Information on purchasing the catalogue will be available in the fall.

I look forward to seeing you in 2006-2007!
Leslie Vansen, Chair