The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Kruk and Experimental Galleries are currently hosting art exhibits featuring faculty members. These events are free and open to the community.

In UW-Superior’s Kruk Gallery, located in the Holden Fine Arts building, the works of Kim Borst, who retired from UWS in 2019, and current UWS professors Timothy Cleary and Mike Maguire, will be on display until Thursday, October 10, in an exhibit titled “Collegial.”

The artists are showing their work together for the first time as a group. The pathos and dark humor they all share will be sure to resonate with the public.

The Experimental Gallery, also located in the Holden Fine Arts building, is featuring “Re-imagining the Embrace of Nature,” by Gloria Eslinger, UW-Superior professor specializing in art therapy and registered art therapist under the American Art Therapy Association.

This summer, Eslinger worked with recycled plastics to experiment and push the idea of artistic mediums.

“I believe art is a method to communicate with my audience in the most direct and immediate way,” said Eslinger. “I am a tactile artist. I create with traditional mediums, but I shake them free of their conventional milieu to create something unexpected. In the case of the medium of stained glass, many early windows obscured natural light because the methods to produce sheets of glass were primitive, and glass was restricted to small pieces held by heavy pieces of lead, called caning.”

“Re-imagining the Embrace of Nature,” will be on display in the Experimental Gallery until October 1.

Opening receptions for both exhibits will take place Thursday, September 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. in each gallery. They are free to attend and open to the community.

The Kruk and Experimental Galleries are open Monday through Friday, 2 to 6 p.m.