Since 2004, the H.F.Johnson Art Gallery at Carthage College has developed a visual arts program that would bring established and emerging contemporary artists' work from the Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison areas. This invitation to engage with current regional and national art trends and the conceptual ideas which they represent not only benefits the students and faculty at Carthage, but it also extends the exposure of these works of art to the community. In a teaching environment, the interdisciplinary opportunities for discourse about the role of art in our shared cultural background is highly encouraged. With an exhibition space of over 1700 square feet and exhibition catalogs with essays written by such prominent art critics such as James Yood, Fred Camper and Garret Holg, the H.F.Johnson Gallery is one of Kenosha's best kept secrets. The gallery provides generous exhibition opportunities for artists to share their work with a newly developed audience eager to experience how the world can be seen through viewpoints very different from their own, or finding new meanings in places they may never have thought to look.
