Past Exhibitions

September 7, 2024 – February 19, 2025
In 2001, Midwest artist Nancy Hild (1948–2017) exhibited three larger-than-life canvases at the Chicago Cultural Center. Their installation was unusual. Rather than the typical museum or gallery wall, the three paintings instead hung in a structure-within-a-structure, a small-scale mausoleum and temple custom built for them. The Bird Room Redux redisplays the three original paintings, now in the Woodson’s collection, and reproduces their historic display.

June 15, 2024 – January 26, 2025

January 27 – June 16, 2024
Explore the profound relationship between nature and the city through the lens of art, revealing how artists have captured, reimagined, and celebrated this dynamic interplay.

March 2 – March 31, 2024
Celebrate Youth Art Month and the creative efforts of central and north central Wisconsin students in grades 9-12 via the 47th annual Student Art Exhibition. Each March, the nation promotes art education by focusing on student work. This exhibition is open to submissions from art educators teaching in public, parochial, and home schools in central and north central Wisconsin.

April 6 – May 19, 2024
Wausau East High School International Baccalaureate (IB) art students collaborate with Advanced Placement (AP) art students from Wausau West to present highlights from their respective art portfolios, the result of rigorous program curricula.

May 4 – August 25, 2024
This exhibition explores the ways in which women have shaped American landscape art. A retrospective of the accomplished American landscape painter Susie Barstow (1836-1923) is presented along with contemporary works that expand and challenge contemporary conceptions of the term “landscape.”

September 7 – December 1, 2024
Birds inspire us in endless ways through their flight, beauty, and delightful mannerisms. The 49th annual exhibition celebrates avian wonders through fresh interpretations in original paintings, sculptures, and graphics created in the last three years.

December 7, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Examining topics of conservation, colonialism, Darwinism, and Indigenous perspectives on nature, this exhibition features works by the influential group of late 19th/early 20th century wildlife painters now known as the Big Four: Carl Rungius, Richard Friese, Wilhelm Kuhnert, and Bruno Liljefors.