https://www.uwlax.edu/news/posts/Campus ConnectionPosts tagged with 'Sierra Rooney':2024-01-26T13:38:56.937Zhttps://www.uwlax.edu/news/posts/beyond-walls/Beyond walls2024-01-26T13:38:56.937Z2024-01-24T10:21:00ZKjerstin Langhttps://uwlax.edu/profile/klang/klang@uwlax.edu
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<h3 class="tagline">UWL classes unite, connecting education with an expansion of community history </h3>
<p>This spring the history of La Crosse’s North Side will come to life — thanks to a collaborative effort among several UW-La Crosse classes. Students studying photography, art education, history and marketing will expand and amplify the <a data-mce-href="https://www.hearherelacrosse.org/" href="https://www.hearherelacrosse.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Hear, Here</em> oral history project</a> that started nearly a decade ago.&nbsp;</p><p>“My Photo II class was asked to illustrate several of the <em>Hear, Here</em> stories through photography,” says UWL student Trinity Rietmann, an art education major. “I was able to learn a lot about the history of La Crosse and improve my research and photography skills at the same time."&nbsp;</p><p>The original <em>Hear, Here</em> project started in downtown La Crosse in 2015. Developed by UWL History Professor <a data-mce-href="/profile/abeaujot/" href="/profile/abeaujot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ariel Beaujot</a> and her students, <em>Hear, Here</em> captures audio stories from people of all backgrounds at specific city locations, accessed by dialing a toll-free number at orange street signs. Now expanding to the North Side of La Crosse, the project will include about 70 North Side stories and many more visual and educational elements courtesy of new campus collaborations.</p><p>The North Side project is set to launch from 1-4 p.m. April 20, 2024.</p><h3><strong>Who are the <em>Hear, Here</em> collaborators?&nbsp;</strong></h3><ul><li>Ariel Beaujot's history students as recording and conducting interviews to develop the stories</li><li>Kate Hawkes' art students are creating narrative photography for the stories</li><li>Lisa Lenarz' art methods students are developing art-integrated curriculum based on select stories.</li><li>Marc Manke’s art students are designing promotional materials.</li><li>Nese Nasif’s marketing class is creating a launch for the event and social media promotions of the project. &nbsp;</li><li>Sierra Rooney, Art, is the project manager for <em>Hear, Here.</em>&nbsp;</li></ul>
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<h3>A historic picture is worth ... </h3>
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<p><a data-mce-href="/profile/khawkes/" href="/profile/khawkes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor Kate Hawkes</a>’ students are taking photos to accompany the stories on the <em>Hear, Here</em> website whether portraits of the story narrators, images to illustrate stories, or uncovering historic photographs and imagery from UWL <a data-mce-href="/murphylibrary/collections/special-collections/" href="/murphylibrary/collections/special-collections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Murphy Library Special Collections</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>“It is a great opportunity for students to gain professional experience, engage with the community and work collaboratively between departments,” says Hawkes. “I think students really love getting out of the classroom, photographing on location, and searching the archives. I remember, at the archive, one student in the archive excitedly saying, ‘I feel like we are solving a mystery!’”&nbsp;</p><p>Rietmann took photos of various North Side locations where the stories were set. Although some spots are now empty lots where buildings once stood, she enjoyed figuring out creative ways to bring them back to life. In particular, she loved photographing horses to help tell a story narrated by William Koch about how ice was harvested using horses from the Black River and another about the use of well-trained horses when responding to fires. Although it was a tricky assignment and the horse photos ultimately weren’t used, the experience deepened her knowledge of what it is like to be a professional photographer. &nbsp;</p><p>“Unlike people, horses do not follow instructions for posing. You pretty much have to catch them doing their thing,” says Rietmann. “I shot a ton of photos and only a few of them ended up being decent shots, but that's okay. You're never going to get the perfect photo on the first try, and photographing the horses was a great reminder of that.”&nbsp;</p><p>Hawkes says the experience builds student’s skills of visual communication and solving problems creatively and critically.&nbsp;</p><p>“I am interested in this project because students get real world experience collaborating and producing their work for the public,” says Hawkes. “It is concrete, and many unforeseen issues and questions arise that we talk through and solve together. It cannot be replicated in an isolated classroom.”&nbsp;</p><p>Rietmann also loved searching for historic photos in the Murphy Library archives. “It was my first time in Special Collections, and it was honestly one of my favorite college experiences so far,” she says. &nbsp;</p>
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<h3>A first for everything — including art lesson plans </h3>
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<p>UWL student Maddy Atkinson’s class is creating art lesson plans for teachers revolving around the <em>Hear, Here</em> stories. The class project was Atkinson’s first time creating formal art lesson plans and materials, an activity she describes as a great experience for a future career in teaching. &nbsp;</p><p>“This has given me a different perspective on how to write lesson plans, thinking about what materials are on hand or affordable for the majority of teachers, the time frame teachers are working with, and what prepared materials are necessary,” says the art education major. &nbsp;</p><p>An overarching consideration for pre-service teachers in the art education program is to experience what it means to be a "teaching artist" that is part of their community, explains <a data-mce-href="/profile/llenarz/" href="/profile/llenarz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Lenarz</a>, UWL associate professor of art. &nbsp;</p><p>“When students have authentic opportunities to engage in learning that's connected to their community, it has the potential to be more meaningful and long-lasting than learning that's purely theoretical in nature,” she says. &nbsp;</p><p>Once complete, the art education materials created in the <em>Hear, Here</em> classes will be accessible to the larger community, says Lenarz.&nbsp;</p><p>“Our hope is through the developed curriculum, others will be able to elongate their experiences with these community members' stories and/or local places through art making experiences,” she says. &nbsp;</p><p>In addition to learning, students in Lenarz’s class have also found the project to be engaging. When testing one of the lesson plans a student had made based on Hunter Wagner's <em>Hear, Here</em> story of urban hiking, students experimented with a technique called frottagé (crayon rubbings). It required they be blindfolded and use senses other than sight to document place and texture in the hallways of the Truman Lowe Center for the Arts. Atkinson recalls relying on classmates to guide her through the halls using only their voice. &nbsp;</p><p>In addition to experimenting with a drawing technique, she says, "It was a good trust exercise."&nbsp;</p><h3><strong>Find lesson plans</strong></h3><p>The art education materials created in the <em>Hear, Here</em> classes will be accessible to the larger community at <a data-mce-href="https://www.hearherelacrosse.org/curriculum/" href="https://www.hearherelacrosse.org/curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.hearherelacrosse.org/curriculum</a>&nbsp;</p><h3 class="x_elementToProof"><span><strong>Bring community engaged learning to your classroom</strong></span><span><strong></strong></span></h3><p class="x_elementToProof"><span>Several UWL instructors in the story above have received the Community Engaged Learning designation for their class.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/community/instructors/cel-classes/" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="/community/instructors/cel-classes/">See the full list of UWL classes with this designation.</a>&nbsp;</span><span>A CEL designation is an official mark of a community-classroom partnership that meets community needs and enriches student learning.&nbsp;</span><span></span></p><p><span>If you are a UWL instructor interested in engaging with the community in a meaningful way, apply for your&nbsp;</span><span><a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/community/instructors/" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="1" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="/community/instructors/">Community Engaged Learning</a>&nbsp;(CEL) designation&nbsp;</span><span>today. The window to apply for this designation on fall 2024 courses is open through&nbsp;</span><span>Feb. 15, 2024&nbsp;</span><span>.&nbsp; Find potential project ideas on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/community/uwl-community-idea-exchange/" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="/community/uwl-community-idea-exchange/">UWL Community Idea Exchange</a>&nbsp;or contact&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/profile/lklein/" target="_blank" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" rel="noopener" data-mce-href="/profile/lklein/">UWL Community Engagement Coordinator Lisa Klein.</a>&nbsp;Can't make the February deadline? The round two deadline for fall 2024 is May 15, 2024. The designation will not be applied to your course at the start of registration.</span></p>
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</span>https://www.uwlax.edu/news/posts/you-in-a-jar/You in a jar2023-05-02T11:09:53.637Z2023-04-27T16:01:00ZKjerstin Langhttps://uwlax.edu/profile/klang/klang@uwlax.edu
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<h3 class="tagline">Project challenges students to share their truths, build community through vulnerability </h3>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Typically, art exhibitions are filled with paintings on walls and sculptures on pedestals. We can ponder artists’ intensions, but we have no way of seeing inside their head. </span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">A combined </span><em>UWL art history and history class</em><span data-contrast="none"> is inviting the public to come on inside — opening up and sharing what’s on the artists' minds.</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">The class is displaying mason jars in exhibits across campus through early May. Each jar is filled with objects that are personally important to the student creator and tell a personal story about them. Accompanying the jars are Moleskines, or notebooks with entries explaining the significance of the objects.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">To fill their jars and journals, students have received prompts throughout the course such as “Who are you? Tell us by filling this jar,” “What is your beautiful remedy,” and “What does your future hold?”&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">Inside UWL sophomore Isaac Olson’s jar are some fishing lures, a hunting knife, and a handwritten note from his grandfather who died in spring of 2022, among other mementos. The jar, as he explains in his journal, is representative of his hobbies and the deep value he has for family. His immediate family members are living all over the world, but they have always been tight.</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">“Family plays a huge part in my life. If I called any of them in the middle of the night, they would pick up,” he says.</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">The exhibit offers an understanding of deeper truths about each other that are otherwise difficult to see. It helps us to realize that, even in our uniqueness, we have similarities and can cohesively function as a society, he says.</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">“At the core root it is about human’s being vulnerable,” says Olson. “In American society, we don’t show emotions. We don’t show how we are feeling. Up until lately, mental health wasn’t talked about. This is a good way for people to be vulnerable in public and show people they are not alone. It is not to say you are not unique, but you are not alone.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">This interdisciplinary, community-engaged class project was created to provide students with hands-on experience in professional exhibit planning and design, curation, management, K-12 and community programming, explains instructor <a data-mce-href="/profile/srooney/" href="/profile/srooney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sierra Rooney, an assistant professor of art</a>.</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="none">“We hoped students gained career-readiness skills that will set them up for future successes in the museum field and beyond and learn the value of interdisciplinary collaboration,” says Rooney. “But we were absolutely floored by the creativity, insightfulness, and professionalism students brought to the project. They showed us what was possible.”</span><span data-ccp-props="{">&nbsp;</span></p>
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<h3>See the jars on campus </h3>
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<p>The jars will be exhibited throughout the UW-La Crosse campus through Friday, May 5. Locations include: &nbsp;&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Center for Arts, Lobby &nbsp;</li><li>Student Union, Outside the COVE &nbsp;</li><li>Murphy Library, First Floor &nbsp;</li><li>Cleary Alumni &amp; Friends Center&nbsp;</li></ul>
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<h3>'What does your future hold?' in a jar </h3>
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<p>UWL student Ilariah McAnally filled her jar with water, as well as candy wrappers, gum, cigarette butts, plastic soda caps and other garbage. She said her future was inseparable from the larger environmental problems on Earth.</p><p><strong>Excerpt from McAnally's writing about the contents of her jar: </strong></p><p><em>“When I was first designing my jar, my thoughts kept focusing on the bigger picture: The Earth. How can I think about what the future holds when there might not be a future in the first place? There’s a lot of aspects to focus on with the state of the Earth, like climate change and forest fires. My mind, however, went straight to where it often starts, the main source of life: water. We don’t realize how much damage humans make to the water systems until it becomes an issue. Flint Michigan is infamous for its lead-poisoned water. An island of plastic floats in the ocean ..."</em></p>
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<p>Olson, a history major who aims to become a high school social studies teacher, placed a brain created out of sculpted clay, some pencils and expo markers in his jar. He’s excited to influence kids to make good decisions and watch them grow. The project has made him more aware of other’s inner struggles and the value of vulnerability — even for teachers and students. &nbsp;</p><p>“In high school I had friends that were dropping off, but it went unnoticed. I want to create as opening and welcoming of an environment as can in the school building. I never want kids to feel like they can’t come to me and explain what they are going through.”&nbsp;</p><p><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p><a data-mce-href="https://photos.uwlax.edu/2022-23-School-Year/Colleges-Schools-Departments-and-Offices/College-of-Arts-Social-Sciences-and-Humanities-CASSH/2023-UWL-Mason-Jars-and-Moleskines/" href="https://photos.uwlax.edu/2022-23-School-Year/Colleges-Schools-Departments-and-Offices/College-of-Arts-Social-Sciences-and-Humanities-CASSH/2023-UWL-Mason-Jars-and-Moleskines/" data-mce-selected="inline-boundary">More jars can be viewed online here.&nbsp;</a></p>
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<p>Sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt are returning to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse after it debuted on campus 27 years ago. And you can have input into which sections of the memorial will return.</p><p>The <a data-mce-href="/art/exhibition-opportunities/university-gallery/" href="/art/exhibition-opportunities/university-gallery/">UWL Art Gallery</a> and National AIDS Memorial are partnering to bring six Quilt sections as part of <a data-mce-href="/creative-imperatives/" href="/creative-imperatives/">ArtsFest 2023</a>, the annual spring campus festival formerly called Creative Imperatives. This year’s theme “Beautiful Remedies for Today” will showcase the role of the arts in health and healing.</p><p>In 1995, around 130 3-foot by 6-foot panels were displayed in the Mitchell Hall Fieldhouse. This time, the Quilt panels will be displayed in the University Art Gallery from Feb. 27-April 10. Admission is free to the public.</p><p>The Gallery is working with the National AIDS Memorial to help select the Quilt panels displayed with a goal of featuring panels memorializing friends and loved ones from the region who were lost to AIDS. The panels commemorate more than 700,000 U.S. lives lost to HIV/AIDS since the first cases were reported 40 years ago. Those interested in submitting suggestions for panels should contact <a data-mce-href="/profile/srooney/" href="/profile/srooney/">Sierra Rooney</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>Today, HIV is on the rise, particularly among young people, communities of color and in southern states. Quilt displays are used to raise greater awareness about the story of AIDS, and prevention, treatments and resources available.</p><p>“The issues our nation has faced in the past two years — a raging pandemic with hundreds of thousands of lives lost, social injustice, health inequity, stigma, bigotry and fear — are also the issues faced throughout four decades of the AIDS pandemic,” says John Cunningham, CEO of the National AIDS Memorial. “The Quilt is a powerful teaching tool that shares the story of HIV/AIDS, the lives lost, and the hope, healing, activism and remembrance that it inspires.”</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">The Quilt was created nearly 35 years ago during the darkest days of the AIDS pandemic by gay rights activist Cleve Jones. While planning a march in 1985, Jones was devastated by the thousands of lives lost to AIDS in San Francisco and asked each of his fellow marchers to write on placards the names of friends and loved ones who had died.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Jones and others stood on ladders taping the placards to the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building. The wall of names looked like a patchwork quilt. Inspired by this sight, Jones and friends made plans for a larger memorial.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">In 1987, a group of strangers began gathering in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">This served as the foundation of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and later that year, nearly 2,000 of its panels were displayed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">Since, the Quilt has grown to more than 50,000 panels, with more than 110,000 names stitched within its fabric. It weighs 54 tons, stretches more than 50 miles in length, and is the largest community-arts project in the world.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">The Quilt is now part of the National AIDS Memorial, which oversees its preservation, care, storytelling programs and community displays.</span><a href="http://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt" data-mce-href="http://www.aidsmemorial.org/quilt"><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">View the Quilt in its entirety and search for names on the Quilt</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-mce-style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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Panels honoring those lost to AIDS returning to UW-La Crosse
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</span>https://www.uwlax.edu/news/posts/art-faculty-exhibition/Art Faculty Exhibition2021-10-01T10:20:38.093Z2021-10-01T12:00:00ZKyle Farrishttps://uwlax.edu/profile/kfarris/kfarris@uwlax.edu
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<p class="date"><span class="label">Posted </span><span data-part="time">noon</span><span data-part="weekday"><span> </span>Friday</span><span data-part="month"><span>, </span>Oct.</span><span data-part="day"><span> </span>1</span><span data-part="year"><span>, </span>2021</span></p>
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<h3 class="tagline">Exhibition includes variety of latest art</h3>
<div><p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US">The UWL Art Faculty Exhibition will include prints, drawings, metalwork, photography, ceramics, digital art, paintings and mixed media. The exhibition opens Friday, Oct. 1, and runs through Friday, Oct. 22. A closing reception will be held Thursday, Oct. 21, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the University Art Gallery, 333 16th</span><span lang="en-US">&nbsp;St. N. The reception and exhibition are free and open to all.&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US">Faculty artists exhibiting&nbsp;include&nbsp;Joshua Doster, Kate Hawkes, Lisa Lenarz, Linda Levinson, Deborah-Eve Lombard, Marc Manke, Brad Nichols, Jarred Pfeiffer, Randy Reeves, Sierra Rooney, Allison Schneider, Zachary Stensen, Jennifer Williams and&nbsp;Sangjun&nbsp;Yoo. Their diverse body of work exemplifies current research and creative endeavors by the members of the department.</span>&nbsp;</p><p><span data-contrast="auto">In conjunction with this exhibition, pairs of art faculty will lead gallery talks on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon, Oct.&nbsp;5, 7, 12, 14, 19 and 21. Meet in the gallery at noon&nbsp;to&nbsp;hear the artists&nbsp;discuss&nbsp;their work and art process. They’ll also&nbsp;take&nbsp;questions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-contrast="auto">The exhibition runs through Friday, Oct. 22. Regular gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, and noon to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and during events in Toland Theatre. Exhibitions are free. Refer questions or arrange gallery appointments to the Art Department at 608-785-8230.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><strong><span lang="en-US">If you go</span></strong></p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US"><strong>What:</strong>&nbsp;</span><span lang="en-US">UWL Art Faculty Exhibition</span>&nbsp;</p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US"><strong>When:</strong>&nbsp;</span><span lang="en-US">Regular gallery hours are noon&nbsp;to&nbsp;8 p.m. Mondays through&nbsp;Thursdays, and noon&nbsp;to&nbsp;5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and during events in Toland Theatre.</span>&nbsp;</p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Closing Reception:</strong>&nbsp;</span><span lang="en-US">From 5&nbsp;to&nbsp;6:30 p.m. Thursday,&nbsp;Oct. 21. The University Art Gallery will remain open until 8 p.m.</span>&nbsp;</p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Where:</strong>&nbsp;</span><span lang="en-US">University Art Gallery, 333 16</span><span lang="en-US">th</span><span lang="en-US">&nbsp;St. N., La Crosse</span><span lang="en-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p></div><div><p lang="en-US"><strong><span lang="en-US">Admission</span></strong><span lang="en-US"><strong>:</strong> Free</span>&nbsp;</p></div>
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<span class="date"><span class="label">Posted </span><span data-part="time">noon</span><span data-part="weekday"><span> </span>Friday</span><span data-part="month"><span>, </span>Oct.</span><span data-part="day"><span> </span>1</span><span data-part="year"><span>, </span>2021</span></span>
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