KATE E. SCHAFFER
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Education

2016      MFA Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 
2006     BS Elementary and Secondary Education, Summa Cum Laude, Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota 
 
Selected Exhibitions

2018    The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?, Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            Pfister Artist in Residence Finalist Show, Gallery M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
​            Recall, Remake, Reduce: Women of Washington County, West Bend Community Memorial Library, West Bend, Wisconsin
2017    The Art of Collage & Assemblage, The Arts Mill, Grafton, Wisconsin
            Collective Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            Indiana Green, The Arts Mill, Grafton, Wisconsin
            Faculty Biennial, Marian Gallery, Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            Pfister Artist in Residence Finalist Show, Gallery M, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016    The New Republic: Nowheres, 314: Ripon College Project Space, Ripon, Wisconsin  (solo)
            The New Republic: Somewheres, Dr. Scholl Gallery, Marmion Academy, Aurora, Illinois (solo)
            Low Residency MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
            Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
            Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015    The Art Room, KMLHS, Jackson, Wisconsin (solo) 
            Open Studio Night, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
            Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2014     Open Studio Night, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013     Members’ Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin
            Member Show, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            TICA Group Show, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
            Creativity Heals, NAMI Fundraiser, Stonefly Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            Shorelines, Concordia University-Wisconsin, Mequon, Wisconsin
            Attraction/Abstraction, Art Bar, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            January Art Jamboree, Hilton Garden Inn, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2012    Member Show, Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, Wisconsin 
            WAEA Member Show, Effjay Projekts Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Residencies

2017     Lighthouse Youth Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
            Boys & Girls Club of Washington County, Wisconsin

2016    Cedarburg Cultural Center, Cedarburg, Wisconsin
2010    Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago, Illinois

Curatorial Projects
 
2018    The Book Club: What Would We Do with Lynne Tillman?, Frank Juarez Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2013    TICA Group Show, Frank Juarez Gallery, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2011     Minds That Think Alike, University of Wisconsin-Washington County, West Bend, Wisconsin


Honors & Awards

2017    Finalist, Pfister Artist in Residence
2016    Finalist, Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Individual Artists
2012    Mentor, Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2011     Mentor, Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
            Featured Artist, UW-Washington County Winter Arts Festival
 
Panel Discussions
 
2017    femTALK: The Power of Poetry, Material Studios + Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
           The Navigators, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
           MARNsalon III: Edgar Endress, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Publications
 
2017    “Edgar Endress” MARNsalons, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network
            “You Are Here” Viator, Issue 2, Viator Project
2011     “Students Turn Tragedy into Something Good” West Bend Daily News, September 10
            “‘Artists who Teach’ on display” West Bend Daily News, January 26
 
Academic Experience
 
2018-    Adjunct Professor of Art (Women in Art), Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2017-    Adjunct Professor of Art & Humanities (Systems of Drawing; Culture, Intersectionality & Humanity), Milwaukee Institute of Art
             and Design
2017-    Adjunct Professor of Art (Women in Art History, Drawing), Mount Mary University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

 
Academic Service
 
2013-17    KML Schools Art Curriculum Committee Chair, Kettle Moraine Lutheran Schools, Jackson, Wisconsin
2012-13    Private Schools Representative, Wisconsin Art Education Association Board of Directors

Selected Presentations and Lectures
 
2017    “Breaking the Grid and Other and Other Such Specimens of Ordinary Experimentation in the Prosaic Verse of the New
            (re)Public” Artist Talk, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2016    “Not Knowing: Thesis Presentation as Poem” Thesis Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2015    “Alejandro Cesarco & Visual Indexing: An Imaginative Encounter between an Image, a Person, and Some Words”
            Colloquium Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2014     “Slow Looking: Cultivating Critical Thinking, Communication, & Community,” Wisconsin Art Education Association Fall
             Conference
             “The Text Paintings of Glenn Ligon: Representation and Abstraction among Other Words and Things,”  Colloquium
             Presentation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 2012    “Don’t Gut the Art Budget,” Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
 
Writings

2017     “Realpolitik,“ 3rdCoast4thWave, Vol 1. No. 1, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016    “The New (re)Public: The [totally queer] Annexation of AbEx Territory,” Written Thesis, John M. Flaxman Library Thesis
            Repository, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2014    “Common Core in Context: Art Education” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
            “Looking Within: A Wisconsin Artist, the Environment, and My Art Students” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
2013    “Not the Same River” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
            “Curriculum, Exhibitions, and Art Club: Success in and out of the Classroom” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
            “Using Note-taking to Enhance Literacy” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
            “It Starts with Integration” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
 2012    “Un-slumping Yourself” Art Times, Wisconsin Art Education Association
             “Contemporary Art in the Contemporary Classroom: How the diaspora will help your diverse students” Art Times,
             Wisconsin Art Education Association

​© 2012-2018 Kate E. Schaffer
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