Past Exhibits

The opening reception is not to be missed. It’s an opportunity to support artists from within our college community. The goal is to empower those students recognized for artistic excellence as they progress through their education.

View works on display by current Nicolet College students. As part of many students transfer journey, they take classes in our art labs to fulfill their Humanities and Electives. It is from those classes that these creations come to be. Faculty members hand select and display their work which ranges fromsimple sketches to paintings, ceramics, and beyond. The opening reception is not to be missed. It’s an opportunity to support artists from within our college community. The goal is to empower those students recognized for artistic excellence as they progress through their education.

Reception: Thursday, February 15 | 5-7 pm

Anyone 18 years or older is invited to submit art for the Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) exhibit, which will culminate in a day-long artist workshop including a lecture or demonstration and educational critique. Meritorious work selected from the numerous regional exhibits around the state will be displayed at the Annual State Art Exhibit in Madison.

WRAP exhibits/workshops began in 1940 as an outreach program of UW-Madison, to encourage the creative growth of Wisconsin non-professional artists from rural areas. Now administered by the Association of Wisconsin Artists, WRAP exhibit/workshops are held throughout the year in over twenty-five locations all around the state. Think you want to see if you got what it takes? Enter this year’s WRAP at Nicolet College! Entry deadline January 22, 2024.

For more details and to submit artwork, visit wiscartists.wildapricot.org or contact the Nicolet College Art Gallery for more information.

It’s not a stretch to see the artistry in hair, makeup, and nail design. The Nicolet College Art Gallery invites students, faculty, and regional artists to share artworks related to themes of cosmetology. The science of cosmetics meets the art of beautification in this exhibition.

Presented by Nicolet College Arts & Enrichment “The Art of…” series was launched in 2022 with a goal to tie campus programs to the visual arts activities on campus. Each year a new program will be highlighted and a call for art will go out locally, regionally, and to Nicolet students and faculty. The vision is that our Northwoods community will see that art is all around us and there is creativity inherent in the work that we all do, especially in some of the specialized skills that Nicolet College cultivates. The “Art of…” exhibitions will highlight Nicolet College’s unique dual mission as both champion of the arts in the community and a leader in occupational training and education.

Reception: Thursday, October 12 | 5-7 pm

Nik Nerburn’s exhibition tends to personal and familial stories, using regional vernacular artistic forms like yard art, model making, dollhouses, and tramp style wood carving. His photographs reveal miniature domestic spaces unraveling by way of personal and mythological disaster. Mostly composed inside of dollhouses, his photographic tableaus embody precariousness and turmoil rather than the dollhouse’s middle class ideal. Using traditional processes such as whittling, chip-carving, frame making, and metal casting, Nerburn braids narratives of both whimsy and catastrophe. This is where a giant secret lives in a tiny house, stuck like a piano you can’t fit out the door.