Bay College announces Tired of Winning, an art installation in the Hartwig Gallery featuring artist Emily Weddle. The reception and artist talk will take place in the Hartwig Gallery on Tuesday, November 18 at 2 pm. The gallery is free and open to the public.
Artist Bio
Emily Weddle is a mixed media fiber artist based in Marquette, Michigan. She earned a BFA in Intermedia Art and BA in Art History from Arizona State University, where she developed an interest in conceptual art, performance, and installation. Her previous work has explored themes of material excess and the passage of time within the framework of domesticity and motherhood. Her most recent work seeks to explore themes related to distortion and distraction.
Artist Statement
Tired of Winning is an installation that began to take shape in the spring of 2025 to make sense of a rapidly shifting information climate in the dawn of a post-truth reality. We have long been warned to watch out for wolves in sheep’s clothing, and Tired of Winning asks viewers to entertain the notion that perhaps the ravening wolves have already arrived.
In this installation, a life-sized needle-felted wolf stalks the gallery space shrouded in a fleece whose bold patterning calls to mind the dazzle camouflage used in the first World War. This unconventional camouflage was used not to conceal – but to confuse. With bright colors and optical patterns, it succeeded in disorienting the opposition who struggled to discern a dazzle ship’s position and trajectory because of the disruption of traditional visual reference points.
In this era where deep fakes, misinformation, AI slop, and blatant lies have muddied the waters of reality, it has become increasingly difficult to suss out fact from fiction or to predict what might be lurking beyond the horizon. With the dizzying pace of the news cycle and the seemingly endless barrage of targeted content shaped by social media algorithms, it all begins to feel like an intentionally disarming whirlwind of confusion and distraction. Through this work, viewers are invited to keep a close eye on the wolves that seek to disorient and divide us.
About Bay College
Bay College is the community’s college with a mission of: Student Success, Community Success, and Culture of Success. Bay is devoted to each individual’s achievement in the classroom, on-campus, online, in the community and into the workforce by providing career certificates, associate degrees, transferable university credits, industry certifications, trainings, and professional development programs which develop skillsets, enrich individuals, and advance careers. #BayIsTheWay