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Lawton Gallery The Lawton Gallery is the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's campus art gallery.

Senior show exhibition 2 is up in the UWGB Lawton Gallery! Featuring work by: Bryanna Cavanaugh, Megan P. Heisz, Meghan ...
05/02/2026

Senior show exhibition 2 is up in the UWGB Lawton Gallery! Featuring work by: Bryanna Cavanaugh, Megan P. Heisz, Meghan Kohn, Emma Krueger, Warren Miller, and Erin Porrey. Gallery hours are M—Sa 10a—3p. The show runs through May 8th.

Only a few more days to check out Senior Exhibition #1 at UWGB’s Lawton Gallery! This show closes on Friday, April 24th...
04/23/2026

Only a few more days to check out Senior Exhibition #1 at UWGB’s Lawton Gallery! This show closes on Friday, April 24th. Come check out the work of these seniors: Mandy Bieda, Abagail Kaepernick, Heidi Kassis, Eddy Laning, Blaine Mindorff, and Josh Reiter.
Images:
1) Mandy Bieda “Mountain Mother”. Oil and acrylic on board.
2) Abagail Kaepernick “You Deserve More Than Hurt”. Graphite and ink wash on paper.
3) Heidi Kassis “Woodland Tea Party.” Stoneware, glaze, white gold luster, mother of pearl luster.
4) Eddy Laning “Patron Saint of Targeted Trannies.” Cyanotype on binder fabric, acrylic on pdf
5) Blaine Mindorff “Queer Beast”. Installation foam, fabric, yarn, stoneware.
6) Josh Reiter “Ptolemaea”. Acrylic paint, embroidery, dyed fabric, found fabric.
7–14) Install shots
The gallery is free and open to the public. Monday—Saturday, 10am–3pm. Next exhibition opens on Thursday, April 30th!

"Print is Punk" is open at the Lawton Gallery, UWGB. Featuring Gail D. Panske (Professor Emeritus, UW-Oshkosh) and Benja...
03/12/2026

"Print is Punk" is open at the Lawton Gallery, UWGB. Featuring Gail D. Panske (Professor Emeritus, UW-Oshkosh) and Benjamin D. Reinhart (Professor of Studio Art, Lawrence University); works from the UWGB permanent collection; and a sampling of zines from the UWGB Cofrin Library. Exhibition design and selection by Cristian Andersson (Curator) and Shara Feng (Assistant Curator).
This is an exhibition that contemplates, both historic and contemporary, the use of print as a means of "anti-isms"—closely relating to punk and DIY ethos.
The exhibition runs through April 10th, 2026. Regular gallery hours are Monday—Saturday, 10am—3pm. The gallery will be closed during Spring Break, starting on March 16th, and reopening on March 23rd.

03/11/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the opening reception of our new exhibition Print is Punk! We are so grateful to the artists, collaborators, and community who helped make it happen Special thanks to everyone who participated in and supported during the fundraiser! So happy to share a few moments from the evening

Glen Martin Taylor IG: , is the fourth of five artists whose work we currently have installed in UWGB Lawton Gallery’s “...
02/21/2026

Glen Martin Taylor IG: , is the fourth of five artists whose work we currently have installed in UWGB Lawton Gallery’s “Read the Room” exhibition.
From Taylor’s statement: “Glen Martin Taylor (b. 1957) is a self-taught artist whose deeply personal and emotionally charged work explores themes of fracture, healing, and the quiet complexities of being human. Born and based in Dayton, Ohio, Taylor creates alone—but always with the hope that his art will resonate, connect, and bridge the space between solitude and shared experience. For Taylor, art is not a choice—it’s a necessity. It is therapy, autobiography, and language all at once. His creative process is an act of survival and transformation, allowing the unspoken parts of his inner world to surface through gesture, material, and form. His works, often marked by a sense of brokenness and mending, reflect both vulnerability and resilience. ‘I work,’ he says. ‘My work saves me. And so I work.’”
“Read the Room” is open through Thursday, February 26th, 2026. The Lawton Gallery is located in the Theatre Hall building at UWGB, and we are free and open to the public! Gallery hours are Monday—Saturday, 10am—3pm. Closed Sunday.
Images:
1) “Hurting is Harder” Paint and pen on vintage plate
2) “Stopped using this” Ceramic, hammer
3) “Safe in Here” Paint and pen on vintage plate, wooden box, vintage tea cup, nails
4) “Kept Below” Wooden box, nails, vintage tea cup, barbed wire
5) “The mending was ugly” Paint, metal, and nails on vintage plate; “Beautiful and loved” Pen on vintage plate; “Still me hinged” Pen and hinges on vintage plate
6) “Beautiful and loved”
7) “The mending was ugly”
8) “Still me hinged” (detail)

Nirmal Raja IG: .raja has two works installed in the current Lawton Gallery Exhibition “Read the Room.”(From Excavation)...
02/19/2026

Nirmal Raja IG: .raja has two works installed in the current Lawton Gallery Exhibition “Read the Room.”
(From Excavation): “...The immigrant condition involves making meaning continuously between your native culture and the adopted culture which often feels like “excavation”. In this work, I investigate this by using letters from the English and Telugu (my mother tongue) alphabet, combining them in a screen print and hand cutting around them, “excavating” the space in-between. The cut remnants are scattered on the floor as a result of laborious hand cutting. Hung delicately suspended on wire, they cast shadows on the wall, swaying and moving with the slightest breeze alluding to breath and vocal sounds.”
(From Practice of Letters [Aksharabhyasam]): “involves the collection and animation of the phrase “Tongue of the hand” written in different languages... The viewer is invited to trace the projection on a bed of rice.  The choice to include rice is inspired by a childhood ritual of writing letters on rice during holidays and early learning ceremonies. This ceremony is called the “Aksharabhyasam” which means the practice of letters... By engaging with the work, the viewer is asked to return to the moment when we first learn coding in language and reconnect with rote repetition, which is so much part of learning how to read and write. The strangeness that we feel with the act of tracing an unfamiliar script, could possibly ask us to question our relationship with the digital and our distance from the tactile...”
Raja holds a BA in English Literature from St. Francis College in Hyderabad, India, a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In recognition of her accomplishments, she was named “Graduate of the Decade” by UW–Milwaukee. Other honors include the 2020 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists and the 2022 Mildred L. Harpole Artists of the Year Award from the Milwaukee Arts Board
Images:
1 & 2) Excavation, 2014
3–7) Practice of Letters (Aksharabhyasam), 2014

Nina Ghanbarzadeh IG: nina_ghanbarzadeh is the second artist of “Read the Room”, currently installed in the Lawton Galle...
02/13/2026

Nina Ghanbarzadeh IG: nina_ghanbarzadeh is the second artist of “Read the Room”, currently installed in the Lawton Gallery.
From Ghanbarzadeh’s statement: “Nina Ghanbarzadeh grew up in a culture where patterns (geometric and/or biomorphic) are everywhere. These visual cues span from the delicate rugs to wall patterns in architectural structures. She thinks and creates with these patterns and Farsi language her mother tongue- because they come to her effortlessly. She is in constant translation between her two languages (English and Farsi) and cultures (Persian American) that determine her lived experiences and by extension, her art. By drawing from generations of rich cultural and fine art traditions in Iran, she is not demonstrating weakness. They are her strength.
 
When text appears in her drawings the formal qualities of the language are as meaningful as the meanings. The text, which become the artworks’ titles, offers greater understanding for the viewer, who can experience the sublime aspects of these letters as objects of beauty. Artists of many backgrounds embrace ‘text as image’. she believes her work extends the urgent contemporary dialogue around why some cultures’ traditions are accepted while others are dismissed.”
1) Love seemed easy at first (a tribute to Hafez) II, 2023. Ink on mulberry, graphite, thread on printmaking paper. (Detail)
2) Love seemed easy at first (a tribute to Hafez) I, II, III
3) These days are dark as night, 2022. Ink and pastel on mulberry paper.
4) These days are dark as night (detail)
5) Circle is the origin X, 2022. Ink, pastel, and thread on mulberry paper.
6) Circle is the origin X (detail)
7) Circle is the origin VIII, 2022. Ink and thread on paper.
8) Circle is the origin VIII (detail)

Chloé Allyn is poet and facilitator from Appleton, WI. Inspired by letters, books, and society, Allyn’s artistic work i...
02/12/2026

Chloé Allyn is poet and facilitator from Appleton, WI. Inspired by letters, books, and society, Allyn’s artistic work is often covered in words. She uses her creative practice to consider two questions: how to bring poetry to an unexpected space and how can this be a book? She works in a variety of media and views each as another exciting way to play with words. Within her poetry, Allyn explores pleasure, decolonization and humanity. She is dedicated to inspiring others and building artistic community.
From Allyn’s statement: “On each of these found garments is a poem by written by Chloé Allyn. The first goal is to expand the idea of a ‘page’ where poems are often imprisoned. Viewers are invited to experience the verse beyond the preconceived notions of a poem in a book on a page. For these pieces, the method of embroidery is chosen for its attachment to female craft and the methodical, meditative nature of layering threads into words. True to her nature, Allyn is compelled to make physical manifestations of her writing, especially in the digital age.”
See Allyn’s work, and the art of four other artists in the exhibition “Read the Room,” currently installed in the UWGB Lawton Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday—Saturday, 10am—3pm. Closed Sundays. Free and open to the public. Exhibition runs through February 26th, 2026.
Images:
1) Glove You No. 2. Cotton thread and glass beads on found chiffon. 2019
2) Spider Silk Dress. Cotton thread and glass beads on found silk dress. 2021
3) Spider Silk Dress (detail)
4) Poems for Glove You No. 2 and Spider Silk Dress.
5) Glove You No. 3. Cotton thread and glass beads on found chiffon. 2020.
6) Poem for Glove You No. 3
7) Revelation Jacket. Cotton thread on found wool jacket. 2018.
8) Revelation Jacket (Detail)



New exhibition at the Lawton Gallery opening soonPRINT IS PUNKFeaturing Gail Panske, Ben Rinehart, and selected works fr...
02/11/2026

New exhibition at the Lawton Gallery opening soon
PRINT IS PUNK

Featuring Gail Panske, Ben Rinehart, and selected works from our permanent collection.

March 5, 2026 | 4–7 PM
2nd floor, Theater Hall
Free food & drinks

On exhibition at the UWGB Lawton Gallery! Five artists who use text as an integral part of their work. As we consider th...
02/11/2026

On exhibition at the UWGB Lawton Gallery! Five artists who use text as an integral part of their work. As we consider the impact AI has within the arts, this show is a statement of “I am” / “We are” through the direct use of the artist’s words, whether carved, sewn, written, cut, or projected within their work.
Chloé Allyn, Nina Ghanbarzadeh, Nirmal Raja, Glen Martin Taylor, and Lisa Wicka are the artists of “Read the Room.”
Exhibition runs through Thursday, February 26th. Gallery hours are Monday–Saturday, 10am–3pm, closed Sunday. The Lawton Gallery is located in Theatre Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Free and open to the public.

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