Brandon Bauer

Art & Democracy Scholarship Updates!

I’ve had several art & democracy and creative civic engagement scholarship milestones over the past few months, and I wanted to share a few highlights: Faculty Fellowship I was selected to participate in the Clemson University Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars Program. This cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary faculty learning community focuses on developing humanities and…

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December 18, 2025

Contributions, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

Art & Creative Democracy, Art in a Democratic Society, Civics Education, education, learning, pedagogy, politics, Social Practice, Teaching

It All Matters Now

It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance Exhibition curated by Kyler Lasee & Tyli Scheetz, Presented in collaboration with Fall of Freedom, St. Norbert College, Bush Art Center, Godschalx Gallery, Exhibition on View from November 3 – December 5, 2025 It All Matters Now: A Creative Resistance is a student-curated exhibition exploring freedom of expression…

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November 12, 2025

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Experimental Film, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

Contemporary Art, Fall of Freedom, Justseeds, Political Art, video art

Upcoming Screenings of Social Media Delivers People

I’m excited to share that my video Social Media Delivers People (After Serra & Schoolman) will be screening at these upcoming film festivals this fall! September 8 – 3 Minute Film Festival, Santa Barbara, California A long-running community-centered festival that celebrates short works of all genres, every film clocks in at three minutes or less. …

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September 3, 2025

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Experimental Film, Film Festival, Projects, Video

experimental video, Film Festival, Richard Serra and Carlotta Schoolman, video art

Man With A Movie Camera at the Mulva Cultural Center!

I will be presenting Man With A Movie Camera this week at the Mulva Cultural Center as part of their Screen & Scholar Series! Man with a Movie Camera is a Russian experimental silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov in 1929. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting…

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April 7, 2025

Art History, Exhibitions and Events, Experimental Film

Dziga Vertov, Man With A Movie Camera, Mulva Cultural Center, Screen & Scholar Series

Social Media Delivers People in the Denver Underground Film Festival!

My new work Social Media Delivers People (After Serra & Schoolman) was officially selected for the Denver Underground Film Festival! The Denver Underground Film Festival (DUFF), founded in 1997, was inspired by the Sunday film parlors organized by Colorado’s avant-garde filmmaker and film educator Stan Brakhage. DUFF aims to preserve Colorado’s legacy of experimental filmmaking…

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March 26, 2025

Exhibitions and Events, Film Festival, Projects, Video

Avant Garde Cinema, Denver Underground Film Festival, experimental video, Richard Serra and Carlotta Schoolman, Stan Brakhage, video art

Imagining Human Rights

The Imagining Human Rights project was featured in the latest installment of the Behind The Arch series produced by the St. Norbert College Office of Alumni Engagement. As they state on thier site: “In this latest installment of the ‘Behind the Arch’ series, SNC professor Brandon Bauer (Art) details how students from multiple classes put…

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October 3, 2024

Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Interview, Posters, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

Contemporary Art, Imagining Human Rights, printmaking, St. Norbert College, Teaching Art, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Last chance to see “In Concert with Jen de los Reyes” at Co-Prosperity

Tommorow is the last opportunity to see the exhibition “In Concert with Jen de los Reyes“, the first mid-career retrospective of this influential social practice artist, organizer, and educator. This retrospective exhibition, organized by Anthony Stepter, Astria Suparak and Nick Wylie, illuminates more than twenty years of artmaking, organizing, writing, and teaching by Jen de…

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July 26, 2024

Collaborations, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Socially Engaged Art

Co-Prosperity, Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Jen de los Reyes, Social Practice

Indiana Green Invitational

About Indiana Green Artdose Magazine will celebrate its Indiana Green Invitational 15th Anniversary at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in downtown Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, July 26 through September 6, 2024. Join us on July 26, 6 – 8 pm, for our opening reception. This anniversary show will feature works by 53 artists that participated…

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June 13, 2024

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events

art, Artdose, Contemporary Art, exhibition, exhibitions, Indiana Green, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Wisconsin

Creative Civic Learning Event!

Are you looking for creative ways to engage your students around the 2024 election but not sure where to start? On Monday, May 13th I will be co-hosting the Creative Civic Learning: Faculty-Led Ideas to Strengthen Democracy in 2024 event. This event, presented by the Center for Artistic Activism and Project Pericles will feature a…

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May 9, 2024

Collaborations, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Teaching

Art & Creative Democracy, Center for Artistic Activism, Civics Education, Project Pericles

Experiments in Cinema v19.8!

My video work Anthropogenic Horizon will be screening at Experiments in Cinema v19.8! Experiments in Cinema is an annual international festival celebrating current trends and history of international cinematic experimentation. Experiments in Cinema is a film festival produced by Basement Films and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The festival will take place at the Guild…

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April 21, 2024

Exhibitions and Events, Film Festival, Video

experimental video, Experiments In Cinema, Film Festival, video art

Sustained Turbulence

My project Landscapes of Absence will be included in Sustained Turbulence the FLEFF 2024 New Media Exhibition at Ithaca College. For this edition of FLEFF, the curators looked back on past exhibitions to revisit work by artists whose work alerts us to the sustained turbulence of our moment. The work in this exhibition pulls into…

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April 1, 2024

Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Film Festival, Projects

art and ecology, Contemporary Art, Critical Art Making, Digital Art, FLEFF, Ithaca College

Artists Now! with Oliver Ressler

On January 31, Oliver Ressler shared his work as a part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts Artists Now! series of lectures. Nicolas Lampert hosted and I was invited to introduce Oliver for this lecture. For more information about the Artists Now! Series visit the series website.

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February 2, 2024

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Presentations

Artists Now!, Climate Crisis, Contemporary Art, Oliver Ressler, Peck School of The Arts, Political Art, UW-Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Light and Stillness in The Trace of Dawn

New Media Caucus Podcast Ep 15: H/F Gallery Presents Light and Stillness in The Trace of Dawn In this episode Harshini J. Karunaratne joins us as curator of “The Trace of Dawn,” along with the six artists who are exhibiting their work: QOA (AR), Orange Grove Dance (US), Fiona Patten (IR), Sandrine Deumier (FR), Brandon…

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August 31, 2023

Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Interview, Sound Art, Video

H/F Gallery, New Media Art, New Media Caucus, Podcast, video art

The Trace of Dawn

I am excited to be included in this online exhibition curated by Harshini J. Karunaratne for the College Art Association‘s New Media Caucus Header/Footer Gallery! Harshini was invited to curate an exhibition – choosing the theme of light, and selected works of 6 artists who examine the interplay between vision, light, and darkness to create works of resistance,…

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July 22, 2023

Contemporary Art, Digital Art, Exhibitions and Events, Video

College Art Association, Contemporary Art, experimental video, New Media Art, New Media Caucus, Online Exhibition, video art

The Votes Are In!

The votes are in from the Nuclear Weapons Referenda restaged for the DEMOCRACY exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts. The installation was a reenactment of the 1982 Nuclear Freeze Referenda, in which Wisconsin was the first state to put nuclear disarmament policy to a popular vote. The final vote was 210 YES to…

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June 12, 2023

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art, Projects, Socially Engaged Art

Contemporary Art, democracy, Nuclear Disarmament Policy, nuclear freeze movement, Overture Center for the Arts, Political Art, Voting, Wisconsin

Midwest Student Voting Summit!

I will be speaking along with representatives from the Center for Artistic Activism at this year’s Midwest Student Voting Summit hosted by the Campus Vote Project and the Fair Elections Center on Friday March 24th. Rachel Gita Karp, the Unstoppable Voters Program Director, and Krystal Barrett, the Programs Coordinator, and I will be speaking about…

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March 22, 2023

Political Art, Presentations, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

Art & Creative Democracy, Campus Vote Project, Center for Artistic Activism, democracy, Fair Elections Center, St. Norbert College, Voting, Wisconsin

Democracy Exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts!

The Democracy Exhibition is on display through Sunday, June 4 in the Playhouse Gallery at the Overture Center for the Arts! President Abraham Lincoln described democracy in his Gettysburg Address as a form of “…government of the people, by the people, for the people…” An ideal democratic system would listen to and serve all its…

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March 14, 2023

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Political Art

Art in a Democratic Society, Contemporary Art, democracy, Overture Center for the Arts, Political Art, Wisconsin

Art & Society Lectures at SNC

As a part of my ART 205: Art, Technology, & Society course at St. Norbert College, I will be hosting a lecture series supported by the Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice, and Public Understanding. The schedule is as follows: Sky Hopinka – Thursday, March 9th at Noon Sky Hopinka is a Native American visual artist,…

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February 2, 2023

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Presentations, Socially Engaged Art, Video

Art & Society Lecture, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Jill Magid, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, Sky Hopinka

fsm. The Artist as Citizen

I submitted a short essay to the open call “The Artist as Citizen ” by the journal fsm. fsm. is a new art review journal covering contemporary arts in the Greater Fox River Valley of Wisconsin. My essay, Art in a Democratic Society, discusses my work to bring civics education to the arts and the necessary…

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December 7, 2022

Contemporary Art, Contributions, Political Art, Publication, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

Aram Han Sifuentes, Artist as Citizen, Civics Education, Contemporary Art, Political Art, Pro-Democracy Movement, Service Learning, Wisconsin

Art & Democracy Fall 2022

This fall, I organized a series of exhibitions and events at St. Norbert College associated with an arts-based service-learning course called Art & Creative Democracy. The exhibitions and events were open to the campus and the community. The students in the Art & Creative Democracy course also participated in artistic activism workshops led by the…

newARTSpace!

I am included in an exhibition at a great new space in De Pere – the newARTSpace! The gallery is run by Terri Warpinski and David Graham who have over 75 years of making, teaching, and exhibiting art between the two of them. They are featuring the work of the St. Norbert College (SNC) Art faculty in the current…

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August 11, 2022

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Teaching

artwork, Contemporary Art, De Pere, Exhibitions and Events, newARTSpace, Wisconsin

Landscapes of Absence at the Miller Art Museum

My project ‘Landscapes of Absence’ will be on view at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, WI from July 16th through September 12, 2022. The exhibition in the main gallery is complemented by selections of other projects that provide a context for this work within my larger body of work. On view will be…

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July 15, 2022

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Presentations, Projects

Brandon Bauer, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, experimental video, Miller Art Museum, video art, Wisconsin

The Nature of the Future

My video Anthropogenic Horizon is featured in the exhibition The Nature of the Future at the Leu Art Gallery on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, TN. This exhibition takes its title from the book Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert. The exhibition features artists whose work addresses…

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March 17, 2022

Contemporary Art, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Video

Anthopogenic Horizon, artwork, Belmont University, Climate Crisis, Contemporary Art, Leu Art Gallery, Nature of the Future, video art

An Imminent Wave

This semester the Art in a Democratic Society students engaged in a SEA (Socially-Engaged Art) and pedagogy project. Included here are photos and documentation from the project “An Imminent Wave”, focusing on the intersection of climate change and immigrant and refugee issues. It was created by St. Norbert College ART 285: Art in a Democratic…

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December 9, 2021

Collaborations, Exhibitions and Events, Projects, Socially Engaged Art, Teaching

climate change, Migration, Mulva Library, Norman Miller Center for Peace Justice & Public Understanding, pedagogy, Socially Engaged Art, Socially-Engaged Art (SEA), St. Norbert College

UNCG International Sustainability Shorts Film Fest!

My video Anthropogenic Horizon is featured in the 12th Annual University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) International Sustainability Shorts Film Festival and Competition! This annual short film competition held in the Spring semester incorporates and addresses the elements of UNCG’s definition of sustainability: social equity, the environment, the economy, and aesthetics. To see the films in…

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April 21, 2021

Exhibitions and Events, Film Festival, Video

aesthetics, Anthropogenic Horizon, environment, Film Festival, International Sustainability Shorts Film Festival, social equity, University of North Carolina Greensboro, video art