Current Exhibitions

Caroline S Mark Gallery

Historic ARTspective 2025

March 26 - May 23, 2025

Reception Celebration: April 4, 2025 5 - 7pm

In Historic Artspective viewers explore their past, connect to their history, and share their story. This exhibit features a selection of unassuming artifacts from the Marathon County Historical Society Collection. Regional artists were invited to create a work of art in their respective medium to be displayed next to its historic item. Explore the history of Marathon County's past and be inspired by its present.

Artists: Natalie Vilter, Ashley Kowalka-Lee, Diana Weber-Osypowski, Diane Shabino, Mary Robinson, Pachoa Yang, Ashlie Zeidler, Nancy Laliberte, Stephanie Kohli, Tiffany Rodriguez-Lee, Mara Mullen and Madison Hager

Vault Gallery

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

March 26 - May 23, 2025
Reception Celebration: April 4, 2025 5 - 7pm

Revisiting rural the landscape they grew up in, Robert Martin, imagines queer futures while honoring a rooted past. 

The figurative work I create is a layered combination of rural aesthetics, queer historical references, inherited ephemera, personal imagery, and memory. Art-making – namely painting – allows me to tangibly imagine queer futures while honoring a rooted past by permitting these stories to coexist within one plane. As I ruminate on the interplay of these employed elements, I am cementing histories and generating utopias.

My upbringing was largely bedecked by iconic Americana artists such as Norman Rockwell and Terry Redlin, who inform my visual predilections. I look to artists like Grant Wood and J.C. Leyendecker as primary historical influences, and I consider my work in conversation with contemporaries such as Jacob Todd Broussard, Jordan Ramsey Ismaiel, Matt Lifson and Pacifico Silano. Research into my uncle and namesake, Martin Ross McRoberts, has become a primary contextual influence as well as a direct link to an increasingly fading queer past.

Loft Gallery

Wausau School District Art Show

March 26 - April 26, 2025

Reception Celebration: April 23, 2025

In this annual Exhibition, Art teachers from the Wausau School District have selected artworks from their K-12 students to display at the Center for the Visual Arts.

April 23rd Reception

5:45 - Elementary Award Presentation

6:15 - Middle and High School Award Presentation