UW-Parkside Announces Fall 2025 Exhibition with Artist in Residence

Ever So Far from Here: Work by Chloe Hanken

UW-Parkside is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring the works of Chloe Hanken, the current Artist-in-Residence in Printmaking. The exhibition will run from Nov. 7 to Nov. 23, presenting a compelling new body of work that investigates journeys and how superstition and magical thinking shape our understanding of entering the unknown. The Foundation Gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

Ever So Far from Here features prints that layer illustration with archival materials, and ceramic sculptures created as objects of protection. Through these works, Hanken explores stories of catastrophe and the locus where history and imagined spaces converge. Drawing from her background in natural history and ecology, she brings these perspectives to bear upon issues of loss, change, and unbelonging at the tail end of the American empire.

Hanken's largely collage-based practice creates imagined landscapes by layering meticulous drawings with textiles, land use archives, and medieval artifacts. The exhibition examines how prophecy, oracles, and systems of divination offer frameworks for meaning-making during times when futures feel out of reach, and how the desire to seek protection extends beyond the physical into the unseen. In these landscapes marked by transformation, the work traces the intersections of past and future, body and place, myth and self.

Artist Talk & Reception

Visitors will have the opportunity to engage with Hanken at the Reception on Nov. 12 from 4 to 6 PM in the Foundation Gallery, followed by an Artist Talk the next day, Nov. 13 at 11 AM in Bedford Hall at the RITA.

About the UW-Parkside Artist-in-Residence Program

The UW-Parkside Artist-in-Residence program supports early and mid-career artists by providing first-rate printmaking facilities and lodging. The artist interacts with students, staff, and the public while contributing to the ambitious artistic environment at Parkside. The residency program is generously supported by a grant from the Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation.

About Chloe Hanken

Chloe Hanken is an artist and printmaker based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her MFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico and her BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic. Her works have been exhibited nationally and she was most recently a 2024-25 Emerging Artist with Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.

For more information, visit https://www.uwp.edu/therita/artgalleries.cfm or contact the Foundation Gallery at [email protected].

Since its founding in 1968, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has been a trusted partner for the region's higher educational needs, empowering students to thrive, advancing applied knowledge, and developing talent for the future. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as certificates and pre-professional programs, designed to foster personal and professional growth through real-world and impactful learning experiences. Located in the dynamic Chicago-Milwaukee corridor, UW-Parkside offers unmatched access to world-class internships, professional networks, and endless career-building opportunities, placing students at the center of it all.

Media contact:

Derek Fye
Communications Manager
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
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