UWRF's Art Gallery
Managed by the Art Department, Gallery 101 is located in the main lobby of Kleinpell Fine Arts (420 E. Cascade St., River Falls, WI 54022). Gallery 101 is typically open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Check back often for more information on current and upcoming exhibitions or call 715-425-3266 for more information.
Spring Semester 2025
Steven Durow Glass Exhibition
Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 4-6 p.m.
Juried Student Exhibition
Work Drop Off: February 19-20, Gallery 101
Set Up: Monday, Feb. 24
Artist Talk and Awards: Tuesday, Feb. 25
Senior Thesis Exhibition — People & Places
Live Performance - Cypher Painting: April 16, 6:45 p.m.
Reception: May 1, 5-7:30 p.m.
The exhibition will feature ceramics, photography, video installations and for the first time, a live performance art piece.
Allison Claybaugh, of Shoreview, Minn., will graduate with a BFA in ceramics this May. She will dedicate six paintings and six ceramic place settings to those who have influenced her artistic journey at River Falls.
Anna Maniak, a BFA candidate from St. Paul, Minn., is a performance artist majoring in painting. She will perform with her community of dancers to highlight dance styles that are not typically presented in fine art spaces, emphasizing the significance of her community through her performance and documentation of her process. She will make a painting during the performance, which will then be on view.
Emily Marsolek of Pleasantville is a BFA candidate with a double major in graphic design and marketing communications. Her display will feature photographic prints, graphic design works and video components from her "Family Farming: The Reality " project, which aims to educate viewers about the importance of family farming and the daily struggles farmers face through the
fundamental human senses, both visual and auditory.
Quinn Stoerzinger, a BFA candidate majoring in photography, is from Maplewood, Minn. His black and white abstract prints exploring the local Midwest landscape will be on exhibit.
Fall Semester 2024
On The River
Reception: Friday, Sept. 20, 3–5 p.m.
Souzeina Mushtaq
Rivers in India are sacred and worshipped, yet they are among the most polluted due to human activities like industrial waste, untreated sewage, and idol immersion. The Yamuna River, especially around India’s capital, Delhi, embodies this paradox. Toxic foam, a byproduct of industrial waste, often covers the river, making it hazardous for those who still rely on it for religious rituals. Efforts to clean, and even the recent legal recognition of rivers as living entities, have largely failed.
In collaboration with Praveen K. Chaudhry of the State University of New York/FIT, the images in this exhibition invite viewers to reflect on the human contradictions of deep spirituality and environmental indifference towards a river celebrated since the ancient times.
Andy Richter
A method of self-realization and a state of being, yoga encourages greater equanimity and awareness, a calm mind, a healthy body, and a compassionate heart. After studying yoga for years, Andy Richter decided to use his medium—photography—to deepen his understanding and search for the essence of the teachings.
For more than half a decade, Richter traveled to places that are historically relevant to yoga’s past, as well as to places that embody its living present, photographing a variety of yoga traditions with many of the world’s great saints and yogis. While this ancient Indian science has roots in Eastern philosophy and systems of thought, today the practice of yoga is mainstream, global, and growing in popularity. For this exhibition, a selection of works from the series Serpent in the Wilderness is situated in relation to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
What's Next?
Reception: Friday, Nov. 8, 4–8 p.m.
- Jude Cockroft
- Masen Danke
- Miranda Johnson
- Madelyn Leick
- Brody Maddigan
- Andreyah Shackle
Join us at the Art Department’s annual scholarship sale and support student scholarships by purchasing unique arts and crafts created by students, alumni, faculty and friends. It’s a fantastic opportunity to find one-of-a-kind pieces while making a difference in our community!
Glass Ornament Blowing
- Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
- Sunday, Dec. 8, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Spring Semester 2024
Reception: Thursday, Jan. 25, 5–7:30 p.m.
Representing diverse areas of studio practice and artistic interests, this group show features the work of exemplary UWRF graduates of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program. Exhibiting artists include Jenn Angell, ’17; Taylor Berman, ’15; Lynn Bierbaum, ’15; Runze Du, ’18; Ben Finley, ’12; Danté Germain, ’17; and Ann E. Lawton, ’08.
Reception: Monday, March 11, 3–4 p.m.
Reception: Friday, April 26, 4–8 p.m.
