WAUKESHA – Dale Guldan, who died in 2005, has come back through his work, and the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha will honor his memory. Photographs by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s most award-winning photographer will be on display in the Fine Arts Center Gallery on campus at 1500 N. University Dr., Waukesha, from January 28-March 2, 2008.

The campus Lectures & Fine Arts Committee will hold a reception in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Lobby, just outside the gallery, on Thursday, February 7, beginning at 5:30 p.m.  A program featuring Joyce Guldan, Dale’s widow, and current Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Gary Porter will follow at 7 p.m. Both are free and open to the public.

The Fine Arts Center Gallery is open Monday-Friday 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., during special events, or by request to (262) 521-5445. Admission is always free.

Guldan attended UW-Waukesha from 1973-75 and received the school’s first Outstanding Alum award in 1983, following two years of being named Wisconsin News Photographer of the Year. That honor came to him the next two years as well and again in 1999. The organization now offers a scholarship (see wnpaonline.com) in his name. He accumulated many other awards, too, including the 2000 Pictures of the Year- International Public’s Best Picture of the Year Award. His work hangs in the permanent collections of AP, UPI, Milwaukee Art Museum, EPCOT’s Kodak Center, and others. In fall 2007, he was inducted in the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame.

Born in Milwaukee June 23, 1953, and raised in New Berlin, Guldan pursued his passion for photography with both art and craft. He toured Europe with the Milwaukee Symphony, traveled to Russia following the breakup of the Soviet Union, went to Nicaragua with a medical mission and to Israel to photograph Reggie White’s pilgrimage. Through his travels, he rode an elephant in India with tigers nipping at his toes – and got the shot of the lunging tiger.  His last out-of-country travel was to Sri Lanka to take photos of tsunami victims. He wrote and narrated that story for JSonline.   

For more than 25 years he worked at The Milwaukee Journal (and its successor Journal Sentinel). Earlier he had been with the Waukesha Freeman as well as taking photos for smaller papers, weddings, events at his former campus, and other occasions. A graduate of New Berlin High West High School, he attended MATC and UW-Waukesha and earned a BFA with High Honors from UW-Milwaukee. With his death from a massive heart attack at age 51, he left a widow, Joyce (nee Stoflet) and their children Sam, now 24, and Sarah, now 20, who live in the Brookfield home that he designed.

Dale scaled the heights of his profession – from the rafters of Miller Park and hang-gliding over Wisconsin to the turmoil of Sri Lanka – and followed every dream, creating a body of work that continues to inspire. Prints of some of his work will be available from VP Gallery, Milwaukee, which will provide order forms at the show.

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