exhibition sponsors

Lead Sponsor
Riversage Billings Inn

Supporting Sponsors
Bev Ross
Nancy Curriden
Sharon Shannon
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Lawrence Lithography Workshop

related events

Opening Reception & Artist Talk with Gesine Janzen | Thursday, October  19 // 5 PM reception followed by artist talk at 5:30 PM

Color-reduction Woodcut Workshop with Gesine Janzen | Saturday, January 20, 2024 from 10 AM – 4 PM

Charles M. Bair Family Gallery & Northwest Projects Gallery

October 19, 2023 – February 4, 2024

Woodcut prints by MSU art professor, Gesine Janzen, come from years of making. Woodcuts, Janzen’s tradition and muse, connect her to landscapes, places, sensations, and memories. Carved marks create movement and structure; they build textures and express emotions. With this new body of work, foreboding, sorrow, and dread predominate, and her point of view turns inward. The forest speaks to her of fairytales and mystery, where danger lurks. Children become lost in the woods. The trees breathe and move. Moss grows, dries, and hangs in tangles from branches.