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Exhibitions and Events

Black Ash Baskets: A Local Collection

March 15 - June 29, 2025

On view in the Gothic Gallery, this exhibition features more than four dozen baskets by Native makers from the remarkable collection of Kirsten Buckstaff, a local resident. Her extensive collection primarily includes Black Ash works by Ho-Chunk makers, but it also holds pieces by Menominee, Ojibwe, and other Indigenous people.

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Weaving a Legacy: Ho-Chunk Black Ash Basketry

March 15 - June 29, 2025

"Weaving a Legacy: Ho-Chunk Black Ash Basketry" presents the historically important and visually compelling tradition of Native basketmaking in Wisconsin, featuring more than 100 works by Ho-Chunk makers from the early 1900s to the present.

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Microsculpture: The Insect Portraits of Levon Biss

June 15 - October 13, 2024

Examine extremely fine pigmented scales, velvet-like surface textures, saw-sharp mandibles, swirling patterns and some of the most vibrant, iridescent colors seen in nature with photography by British photographer Levon Biss.

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A Cabinet of Wonder: Artworks by Jennifer Angus

June 15 - October 13, 2024

Using exotic insects as her primary artistic medium, Jennifer Angus explores themes of beauty, pattern, ornamentation, relationships between humans and insects, and the important roles insects play in ecosystems.

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Mao Lor: A Journey through Hmoob Paj Ntaub

February 10 - May 26, 2024

Journey through Hmong art, history, and culture with two-dozen intricately hand sewn and embroidered artworks by artist Mao Lor.

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Rodin: Contemplation and Dreams

June 17 - October 8, 2023

Explore sculptures by Auguste Rodin through one of the most extensive exhibitions of the artist’s works ever shown in Wisconsin as well as the largest installation of sculptures presented in the Paine’s history.

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Tom Uttech: One With Nature

February 11 - May 21, 2023

Explore more than two dozen photographs and a selection of paintings by renowned Wisconsin artist Tom Uttech, whose work is inspired by his pilgrimages deep into the remote wilderness and has been been described as Magic Realism.

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Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence

February 19 - May 22, 2022

This dazzling exhibition at the Paine showcases a new form of bead art, the “ndwango,” developed by a community of women working together in South Africa.

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Paperweights in Bloom: Selections from the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass

February 19 - May 22, 2022

"Paperweights in Bloom" highlights more than fifty antique, vintage, and contemporary glass paperweights from the collection of Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah.

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Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes 

June 26 - October 10, 2021

100 pairs of shoes from Stuart Weitzman's collection show how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become objects of design, desire, and meaning.

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