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Opening Reception, Kathee Kiesselbach, Printmaker

Presented by Wilhelm Kiesselbach Gallery at Vickers Theatre Gallery

May 6, 2006

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"Kathee Kiesselbach, Printmaker," runs from May 4-29, 2006. Kiesselbach (BFA, Indiana University South Bend) is an award-winning printmaker who has exhibited across the United States and internationally, from Malaysia to Bulgaria. Her interests include wood engraving, solar plate intaglio prints, photography, and painting. She is a member of the Wood Engravers' Network, the Mid America Print Council, and the American Print Alliance, and most recently, the Berrien Artists Guild at the Box Factory in St. Joseph, Michigan. Her wood engravings are included in the Princeton University print collection. She teaches at the Elkhart Art League, and at the Box Factory in St. Joseph, Michigan. Kathee is the communications specialist for the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She lives in Niles, Michigan, with her husband Wilhelm and their three Newfoundland dogs. Kathee uses lithography and wood engraving to document the faces of giant Newfoundland dogs. She has been intrigued by the special bond between these grand dogs and humans. Kathee is also presently working on another body of work that concerns a human activity that transcends race, country, religion, and it is something we rarely think about. It is “waiting.” In my series, “We Stand Waiting,” I have captured scenes of people from different countries, in different circumstances, waiting in line for something to happen. These are not anonymous people hoping that no one notices them. They are part of a group, expressing a solidarity by their clothing, by their very circumstances, waiting with others like themselves. Sometimes it is obvious what they are waiting for—sometimes it is not. The curious thing is that no matter where they come from, no matter what they are waiting for, they all have the same look on their faces. Is it patience? Is it boredom?