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Making Whimsy Art Exhibition

April 5, 4:00 pm7:00 pm

Making Whimsy is an art exhibition being put on by June Srubas in collaboration with the art program at Northland College. This exhibit showcases June’s evolution of art through their time here and the importance of making your own meaning and making your own whimsy. There will be treats available…

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Alumnus Karl ’04 oversees outdoor therapeutic program

Healing Through a Lense

…to scientific and artistic curiosity,” Lafrancois said. Gently awakening young minds is a core part of the program. “When a kid or adult has a life changing moment in nature, they develop a bond and a desire to protect that place and other places like it. Stewardship and environmentalism begin…

Northland College students do radio interview in early 1960s with photographer and curator John Szarkowski

Changing the Way We See

Ashland native John Szarkowski showed America a new way to look at photographs.

When John Szarkowski began as director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1962, photography was considered a utilitarian median, a means to document what existed. He elevated the photograph as a legitimate form of art. “Szarkowski’s thinking, whether Americans know it or not,…

Farm images and embroidery tools

Northland Class Taking Art Project, Film to Minnesota

Arts for Societal Change class to students at CSB/SJU via an art class taught by local artist Mary Bruno of Bruno Press. The project takes images from the Bruno Press 2016 calendar Homegrown in Minnesota—captured on the farm as a photograph, then carved into lino-block, then printed via the letterpress…

authors and books graphic

Conf to Highlight The Power of Story

…finds for her artwork in nature. She illustrated Bissonette’s North Woods Girl, and received a SONWA honorable mention for My Wilderness: An Alaskan Adventure. “That connection between nature and literature imparts to kids the role nature plays in our lives,” says McGehee. “The more you see, the more you understand.

Northland College Volleyball Camps

Youth Volleyball Camp

August 16, 2023August 18, 2023

…on Wednesday, August 16, through Friday, August 18, in the Kendrigan Center on the Northland College campus in Ashland, Wisconsin. Northland College Athletics would like to thank Ashland Ford Chrysler for sponsoring this youth athletic offering. Registration has closed. We hope your youth can join us for a future program!…

Northland College alum Terry Daulton's painting of Crystal Bog

On Merging Art and Science

How One Class Changed My Life

…became immersed in bringing art and science together. In 2006, I had an opportunity to test the communication power of art. With twenty-six artists and scientists, we created Paradise Lost? Climate Change in the Northwoods an exhibit seen by over 100,000 people. The success inspired longer-term collaborations with the University…

Young ladies in a canoe on a lake with fall colors behind them.

Youth Outreach Programs

SOEI youth programs are designed to immerse participants in the wildness and wonder of nature and to inspire and empower them to continue their explorations of the natural world….