Sheboygan Men’s Room
Location: East Wing Men’s Washroom 
Details, Sheboygan Men’s Room by Ann Agee.
Brooklyn artist Ann Agee was first invited to be an artist-in-residence
in the Arts/Industry program in 1991. Trained as a painter at Yale and
with an M.F.A. from Cooper Union School of Art, Agee had no formal
training in ceramics but began painting on clay through a desire to
create three-dimensional paintings. For the washroom commissioned in
1998, Sheboygan Men’s Room,
Agee chose to work with rich cobalt blue and white, deliberately
reminiscent of Delft and Staffordshire ceramics. She glazed hundreds of
tiles, the lavatories, urinal, toilets, and counter with intricate
patterns inspired by historic motifs and with imagery devoted to the
subject of water, particularly how it touches the lives of
Sheboygan–area residents. All of the images in the washroom represent
actual places in Sheboygan County; from a local car wash to views of
Lake Michigan, a community swimming pool to supermarket shelves laden
with bottled water, a water treatment plant to hundreds of Sheboygan
homes with sprinklers and swimming pools. Artist(s)Related ProgramsFunding/SponsorArts/Industry is made possible by Kohler Co. Terms Of Use |