WAUKESHA – The University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Fine Arts Center Gallery has on display a reprise of photographic work by former art faculty member Mary Ellen Young, who died in 1994. Young, who earned her bachelor’s degree in painting and master’s in art history, turned to the camera as her preferred instrument for creating art.
Gallery hours for the exhibit, which runs through March 20, are 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. The gallery will be open during special events as well. To view the work at other times, phone University Relations, (262) 521-5445. Admission is free and the public is welcome.
Young was drawn to architectural models as well as people in relationship. She co-authored two books focused on architecture, Places of Worship – Milwaukee (1977) and Downtown Milwaukee (1978) and helped curate the Milwaukee Humanities Program’s bicentennial commemorative “Milwaukee Self-Portrait: A City’s Family Album,” a traveling exhibit featuring the people of the city. It served as the basis for two of her later photo collections, “Families” and “Home.”
Among the original UW-Waukesha faculty when the campus opened in 1966, Young earlier founded the art history department at UW-Milwaukee and chaired it for the first year.
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