Barbara Manger
Artist, Printmaker
Artist’s Statement
I watch rivers from canoe and kayak, attempt to comprehend the pulse
and energy, the flow, the depths, the secrets and the constant change.
I am interested in the infinite properties and varieties of line as
means to explore and convey what I observe and experience in rivers. I
engage line as metaphor, creating marks that repeat and weave themselves
together like fabric or raga or indicate movement for a swaying dance. Like
rivers, some of the lines can be traced to their origins, but another’s
end and beginning may never be found. My focus is sometimes on
directing and ordering line, but mostly I am intrigued by tangles,
overlays, apparent disorder. I am in awe of the insistent quality
of a line released to follow its own direction, like a river wending
its own path of necessity. I follow the lines I make, alert for the
furls and rapids as I go. I hear my voice and see my movement
in these lines and merge with the direction of the river.
Writings
Collections
- Elmbrook Memorial Hospital Cancer Treatment Center, Brookfield,
WI
- Alverno College, Sacajawea Collection, Milwaukee, WI
- Wright Art Museum, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
- Neville
Public Museum, Green Bay, WI
- Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NB
- Carroll
College, Waukesha, WI
- St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
- Mount Senario College, Ladysmith, WI
- Iowa City Public
Library, Iowa City, IA
- Waukesha Memorial Hospital, Waukesha,
- WI Medical Associates Health Center, Menomonee Falls, WI
- Kurten Clinic, Racine, WI
- Swidler, Rollo & Goldberg Law Offices, Chicago
- Hart & Bruner Law Firm, Minneapolis, MN
- Cooke & Franke, Milwaukee, WI
- Quarles & Brady Law Firm, Milwaukee, WI
- NSEA Industrial Systems, Milwaukee, WI
- Arthur Anderson Corp., Milwaukee,WI
- Quad Graphics, Pewaukee,WI and Saratoga, NY
- Allen Bradley Corp., Milwaukee, WI
- Valuation Research, Milwaukee, WI
- KMC Stamping, Port Washington, WI,
- Arthur Young and Assoc., Milwaukee, WI
- JH Collectibles, Milwaukee, WI
- Mosinee Paper Corporation, Mosinee WI (commission)
- Cherne Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
- Northwestern Mutual Insurance, Woodbury, MN
- Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Milwaukee, WI & Hartland,
WI (5 river works)
- Southeastern Banking Corporation, Miami, FL
- GE Medical Systems Buildings, Milwaukee WI (5 commissioned pieces)
- Independence Bank, Waukesha, WI
- Winmar Building, Milwaukee, WI
- MCI Telecommunications, Denver, CO
- Universal Foods,Milwaukee,WI
- Major Trends, Milwaukee, WI
- Ernst & Young, Milwaukee, WI,
- Orbis-Division of Menasha Corp., Oconomowoc, WI
- Private Collections in the Midwest
Selected Exhibitions
Invitational and Individual
- Wisconsin Women Printmakers, Quadgraphics Gallery, Pewaukee, WI
- Journey, One person exhibit, Carroll College, Milwaukee, WI , October
1999
- One person show, Peltz Gallery, July-August, 1999
- Gardens, Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI
- Stitchers & Beaders, America’s Best, Invitational Exhibit,
Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus OH,
- Remarkable Women, Annual Show, Peltz Gallery, 1996-2004
- Prints Created on Bunch Presses, Water Street Gallery, Prairie
du Sac, WI,
- New Works, Barbara Manger, Katie Gingrass Gallery, Milwaukee
- Synectics, Three Person Show, Viterbo College, La Crosse, WI
- MC Gallery, Three person show, Minneapolis, MN
- Celebrating the Stitch, Group Exhibit, Chicago Cultural Center,
travels US & Japan
- (catalogue)
- Mount Mary College, one person show, Milwaukee, WI
- Monoprints, group show, Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison,WI
- Tory Folliard Gallery, Three person show, Milwaukee, WI
- Gifts from the Earth, New Visions Gallery, group show, Ithaca,
NY
- On Site, Installations, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- 5 sides and some tops, Southern Ohio Museum of Art & Culture,
Portsmouth, OH
- Lithographs; Hand Editioned by John Gruenwald, UW-Waukesha, Waukesha,
WI Making Paper: Wisconsin, Group show, Wustum Museum, Racine,WI
- Perspectives: Barbara Manger, one person show, J.M. Kohler
Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
- In Line, One person show, Alverno College, Milwaukee
- New Wisconsin Fibers, Galerie Filambule, Lausaunne, Switzerland
(sponsored by Wisconsin Arts Board, travels to UW WI-Eau Claire, Macalester
College, ST. Paul, MN, Kenyon College, OH, etc., catalogue)
- Assemblage: WI Paper, Bergstrom Museum, Neenah WI
- Out of Line, One person show, UW-Platteville, WI
- Drawing: The Fundamental Art, 5 person show-Cudahy Gallery, Milwaukee
Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
- Wisconsin Fibers, Invitational, Wustum Museum, Racine (catalogue),
work reproduced in American Craft Magazine
- Haitian American Institute-Musee Nationale of Haiti, group show
tours Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guyana (catalogue)
- Would You Believe It’s Made of Paper, Group Show, Peter M.
David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
- Patterns and Borders, group show, Ross Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
- Invitational Group Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
- Headdress, J M Kohler Art Center,
Sheboygan, WI
- One person show, Concordia College, Milwaukee, WI
- Statements, group show, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalogue)
Juried Exhibits
- Wisconsin Directions, Milwaukee Art Museum
- National Small Prints & Drawings, Fort Hays State University,
Hays, KS
- Crafts National, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA
- National Drawing & Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus
Christi, TX-1973, 75, 76, 81, 85
- Just Plane Screwy: Metaphysical & Metaphorical Tools by Artists,
Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
- Wisconsin Watercolor, Wustum Museum, Racine WI-awards 1989, 2004;
2005
- Beloit & Vicinity Show, Juror’s Award, Purchase Award-1989:
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
- A Show of Hands, Carnegie Museum of Art, Oxnard, CA
- The Aesthetic Excursion, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI
- Fiber Structure National V, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
- Pieceworks II, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (travels through
Southeastern states)
- Open Door, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
- Paper/Fiber VI, Juror’s Award, Purchase Award, The Arts Center,
Iowa City, IA
- Works On/With Paper, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA
- Burpee Art Museum Annual, Rockford, IL
- Wisconsin Biennale, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
- Midwest Landscape Show, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln,
NB-University Purchase Award,
- College of the Mainland National Competition, Texas City, TX
- The Wichita National, Wichita, KS
- National Fiber Arts Show, Dalton, GA
Gallery Representation
- Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Related Activities
- Founder(1997), President (1997-2002), Artists
Working in Education, Inc, Non-profit organization providing
meaningful art experiences for children in schools through its School
Studio Program and in inner city parks with its Truck Studio Program
- Juror-various art exhibits—Neville
Public Museum, Green Bay, WI; J.
M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; University of
WI-Green Bay, University of WI-Oshkosh, Art Center of MN; Carroll
College; Panelist, WI Arts Board
- Member, Public Art Subcommittee, City of Milwaukee Arts Board,
1997 to present; Board of Nia Imani-transitional living facility for
women in recovery, 1995-present;
- Past Board member, Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors; Walker’s
Point Center for the Arts; ; Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors; Walker’s
Point Center for the Arts; Artists Advisory Committee, Cudahy Gallery,
Milwaukee Art Museum; Grants Advisory Committee-Women’s
Fund, Greater Milwaukee Foundation-1998 to 2005; Tirimbina Rain Forest
Center, Costa Rica, Preservation, Research & Education Center
1997-2004; Board of Trustees-Beloit College, Beloit, WI
- Juror-various art exhibits—J.M.
Kohler Arts Center, University of WI-Green Bay, Art Center of
MN, WI Art Teachers Association, Exhibit-Carroll College, Milwaukee
Art Museum Cudahy Gallery exhibit, etc.
- Cross-country bike ride in support of a cure for breast cancer,
1998
Artist
discovers back-roads America during fund-raising bike trek.
Distinctions
- Artist in Residence, Mwangaza Center, Arusha, Tanzania
- 2001 Milwaukee-Area Nonprofit Excellence Award for Young Organization
for AWE, Inc.
- 2002
Governor’s Award in Support of the Arts from the Wisconsin
Foundation for the Arts for convening a group of artists and educators
in 1998 to form Artists
Working in Education, Inc. to fill the void produced by cuts in
public school funding for arts programs.
- 1999 Lynde Uihlein Award, Women’s Fund, Greater Milwaukee
Foundation
- Artist’s Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, March,
1983; January and November, 1984
- 1986 Wisconsin Arts Board Grant for Milwaukee Montessori School
Peace Project
- 1986 Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, Project Director, Bicentennial
Project,
- 1975 Artist for Dairy land Graphics Project, Wisconsin Arts Board,
Oak Creek, WI
- 1983 Edition of 10 lithographs chosen for Sacajawea
Award, Professional Dimensions.
Teaching
- On-going printmaking workshops in Grafton Studio-second and fourth
Fridays
Contact Barbara for specifics.
- The Clearing,
Ellison Bay, WI, summer classes, (Wood
Block Printing)
- Specialty teaching classes in Drawing in Nature
- Carroll College, Waukesha WI 1997-2000, Adjunct Professor,
- Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI, Instructor, Gallery
Director,1987-97; Assoc. Professor, 1987
- Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, 1976-82; Art Department Chair,
1976-1977; Gallery Director 1977-82
Additional Teaching and Workshops
Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC; Concordia College,
Milwaukee, WI; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Rhinelander School
of the Arts, Rhinelander, WI; Wustum Museum, Racine, WI; Peninsula
Art School, Fish Creek, WI; UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Education
- BA Art, Spanish, Beloit College,
- M.S. Painting/Sculpture, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MFA Painting/Sculpture, University of Wisconsin- Madison
- Study with Toshi Yoshida, Miasa Bunka Center, Japan
February 2005
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