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UW-Madison Art Department Newsletter
March 22, 2021

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FROM THE CHAIR

Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Art Department,

In light of recent events let me be clear, hate doesn’t live here. The Art Department is an international community of artists, art students, and UW-Madison students. We do our very best to foster diverse, open, and safe spaces for students and artists to engage creatively here on campus and in the city of Madison. Please note, there are resources available to students, staff, and faculty on campus that are linked below in a message from School of Education Dean Diana Hess and LaVar Charleston, the School’s Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

In solidarity with campus and School of Education efforts toward anti-racism, we are sharing this message that was originally sent to students, faculty, and staff across the School last week:

March 18, 2021

School of Education Colleagues, Students, and Friends,

The School of Education joins UW–Madison’s Interim Chief Diversity Officer Cheryl Gittens and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori Reesor in denouncing the mass shootings in Georgia on March 16, and other violence targeting Asians and Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi Americans (APIDA). We condemn and reject this hatred and violence, and refuse to accept it as “normal.”

While we mourn for those lives lost, we do so in solidarity with one another — standing together and holding each other up in these challenging and difficult times. We recognize the power in our unity and resist this hatred and violence collectively. We reject racism and xenophobia, and stand on our values to embrace and engage the full measure of the diversity of our society. We recognize that diversity is our strength and our approach to generating positive and lasting change, rejecting both white supremacy and systemic racism.

The Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (OEDI) and the Global Engagement Office (GEO) in the School of Education are available to talk with and serve as a resource for students affected by the shootings and other bias-related incidents across the country. Additionally, OEDI, together with GEO, will be holding space for reflection on Tuesday, March 23, from 3 to 4 p.m. CDT. Please click here to register for the event via Zoom. Feel free to also email oedi@education.wisc.edu with any thoughts, questions, or concerns that you have regarding this incident or available resources. Both the OEDI and the GEO are committed to providing space for processing and discussion to ensure that the environment within the School of Education is conducive to understanding and healing.

Other resources available to the UW-Madison community include:

Dean of Students Office, 608-263-5700
UHS Mental Health Services, 608-265-5600 (option 9)
Employee Assistance Office, 608-263-2987
Resources to Support Our APIDA Community

We must continue to call out and name racism when we see it, hear it, and/or personally experience it. We must be explicitly anti-racist, more diverse, and work more consciously, continually, and meaningfully toward the goal of ensuring that everyone experiences the School as a place where they feel fully included. These are trying, heartbreaking, and uncertain times. But, as always, we will get through them, together.

In community,

Diana Hess, Dean

LaVar J. Charleston, Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

School of Education

Congratulations to UW-Madison Alumni Photograph of Cameron SmithCameron Smith [Studio Art Certificate and Comm Arts BA ‘18]. Smith is joining the White House as a staff photographer for President of the United States, Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris. Since graduation, Smith has actively worked in the field of photography; documenting a presidential campaign, touring with musician Flint Eastwood, editorial work, travel, marketing, and more. Her dynamic work to date can be seen on her website, cameronsmith.photo. Thanks to Professor and photographer, Thomas Jones, for bringing this to our attention.

Chair Derrick Buisch

UW/ART
IN THE NEWS

Work by UW–Madison’s Ahn featured in exhibition at Benedictine University, UW-Madison School of Education News, March 17, 2021.

Anwar Floyd-Pruitt explores self identity through ‘SUPERNOVA’ by Veronica Kuffel, The Badger Herald, March 4, 2021.

Work by UW–Madison’s Hitchcock featured in exhibition at Portrait Society Gallery in Milwaukee, UW-Madison School of Education News, March 1, 2021.

‘Winter is Alive!’ showcases multimedia artists in ‘cool’ art festival by Teresa Audet, The Badger Herald, February 25, 2021.

‘Winter is Alive!’ artwork inspires conversations on climate change by Rupa Palla, WKOW 27, February 20, 2021.

Abdu’Allah named Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art, UW-Madison School of Education News, February 19, 2021.

Watch now: Citywide art event emphasizes climate change amid an arctic blast by Barry Adams, Wisconsin State Journal, February 15, 2021.

Tamarind highlights lithograph by Dyani White Hawk, UNM Newsroom, February 7, 2021.

Announcing the 2021 Arts + Literature Laboratory Prize winners Rita Mawuena Benissan and Conley Clark, UW Art News, January 29, 2021.

“Let’s Talk About It” book seeks to preserve protest art and keep the moment from being forgotten by Ayomi Wolff, Madison365, January 25, 2021.

A Respite From The Waking Nightmare: A Review of Western Exhibitions Drawing Biennial by Erin Toale, Newcity Art, January 25, 2021.

American Family Insurance rises to call for action, preserving State Street art in new book, Channel3000, January 20, 2021.

UW–Madison’s Ahn presents exhibition at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, UW-Madison School of Education News, January 19, 2021.

The Garden of Eden by Adjaye Associates: Privilege, Voyeurism, and Reflection by Faith Ruetas, Rethinking The Future, January 15, 2021.

#ARTSATUW

University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department
Spring 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium Series
Wednesdays @ 5pm
Online: bit.ly/uw-art-talk

Discover the latest developments in fine arts, craft, and design at our free public lectures by some of the most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors. The Visiting Artist Colloquium is held every Wednesday during the academic year, and is free and open to the public.

March 24
Soomin Ham

Soomin Ham is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Washington DC area. Using reconstructed compositions, her photography, mixed media, and multimedia installations become a window to collaboration over place and time, life and fading memory, loss and rediscovery.

The VAC series is supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust.

SPRING 2021 VISITING ARTIST COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Badger Talks LIVE: Welcome to the Kohler Art Library!
Tuesday, March 23 @ Noon

For fifty years the Kohler Art Library has facilitated the study of art and art history at UW-Madison. Take a tour of this hidden campus gem to learn about its history, how and why people research art, and to see some colorful examples of art books. Led by art Reference and Instruction Librarian Anna Simon.

This virtual talk will take place on Screenz, and the Badger Talks Facebook page. Can't catch the live talks? Check out past talks.

Badger Talks is supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Foundation & Alumni Association, and donations from friends and fans like you. While a donation is not required to attend this virtual Badger Talks Live, we appreciate your consideration in making donation to support future Badger Talks programming. Your donation is tax deductible to the extent of the law.

WELCOME TO THE KOHLER ART LIBRARY!

Transcend UW and Bizzy Bizzy: Branding Workshop
Wednesday, March 31 @ 5:30pm

Come to our Branding Workshop! We're partnering with Bizzy Bizzy to present Better Branding = Bigger Business; It's Time to Level Up. Learn how to communicate and present your idea in the best light with the power of branding! We'll work on challenges that apply directly to your idea, like building mission/vision statements, core values, and your brand archetype.

BRANDING WORKSHOP

UW–Madison Spring 2021 Division of the Arts Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence:
Choreographer, Dancer, and Multi-media Artist Litza Bixler

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts (presenter) welcomes Litza Bixler as the Spring 2021 interdisciplinary artist. Litza Bixler is a choreographer, filmmaker, movement director, visual artist and writer. She has produced work on stage, screen, galleries and mountains. Bixler works across the spheres of art, performance and film, and has been a working artist and educator since 1995.

For the spring semester, Bixler is teaching the 3-credit course Creativity, Collaboration and the Creation of Self. The final collaborative piece for this course examines the movement of people across borders and boundaries. Students will explore diaspora, geography and immigration as essential and positive sources of identity and ask what it means to be “from” a particular place or country. Students will explore how we move: literally, metaphorically and culturally, and examine the subtext of the question, “where are you from?”

Bixler and the students in her course are now interviewing campus and community members for their final event currently scheduled for May 7. If you are interested in being interviewed, please email iarp@arts.wisc.edu. The maximum time commitment will be an hour.

As a supplement to the Cinematheque's double feature presentation of The World's End and Metropolis, the Cinematalk Podcast #32 features Litza Bixler who talks with the Cinematheque's Jim Healy about her career journey as an artist, her contributions to the movies of Edgar Wright, the influences of Metropolis, and the collaborative process of filmmaking.

The Spring 2021 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) is presented by the UW-Madison Division of the Arts and hosted by the Dance Department with Professor Li Chiao-Ping as lead faculty. Co-sponsors include the Art Department and Department of Communication Arts.

The UW–Madison Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) brings innovative artists to UW–Madison to teach semester-long, interdepartmental courses and to publicly present their work for campus and community audiences and is funded through the university’s Office of the Provost.

SPRING 2021 IARP LITZA BIZLER

Wheelhouse Studios are Open to the UW Community for Spring 2021!

Location: Memorial Union, Lower Level, 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI

Open to UW-Madison Students, Staff, and Faculty, Wheelhouse Studios works to foster a safe environment in our studios and they are available via signup, ensuring space for physical distancing and regular sanitation processes.

We are open from 12-8pm everyday and have the following media spaces available: pottery/hand-building, metalsmithing, glass fusing, block/lino printing (no press, hand only), painting, sewing/textiles, and general crafting!

SIGN UP TO VISIT WHEELHOUSE STUDIOS

MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITIONS

Photos of Rita Mawuena Benissan (left) and Conley Clark (right) by Sarah Maughan.

2021 Arts + Literature Laboratory Prize
Master of Fine Arts Exhibitions
Mo Apiafo by Rita Mawuena Benissan
(Sub)urbia by Conley Clark
March 11 - May 1

ALL Prize Artist Talk: Thursday, April 1, 5pm, live on Facebook

Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, during limited hours from 12-5pm Thursday through Saturday or by appointment, 111 S Livingston St Suite 100, Madison, WI

Photography by Rita Mawuena BenissanMo Apiafo by Rita Mawuena Benissan is a photography and installation based exhibition that explores aspects of the artist’s Ghanian-American background. Using narrative photography, Benissan utilizes imagery taken in Ghana to reinterpret the royal umbrella, a symbol of hierarchy of chieftancy in the country. The umbrellas are used to protect and shade the King, Chiefs, and Queenmothers. Benissan contradicts the monarchy and colonialist ideology that they stand for by using what she terms her “Black Aesthetic.” Benissan stages her umbrellas alongside images of everyday working people, reclaiming the power associated with the symbol.

Installation art by Conley Clark(Sub)urbia by Conley Clark is a multimedia, installation-based exhibition that draws upon the artist’s personal experiences to question the unspoken suppositions and expectations of gender-conformity within a society. Considering its underlying tensions and fraught history, Clark combines plaster casts, AstroTurf, video, sound, and various found objects to embellish the landscape of the suburbs with queerly-coded visuals. In this way, prevalent imaginaries of stereotypical suburban life are disrupted by an uncanny representation of the same thing.

The annual ALL Prize exhibition is awarded to one or two graduating MFA candidates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, selected by curators on the ALL Visual Arts Team. The prizewinner’s MFA thesis exhibition will be shown at ALL, and receive a $1,000 stipend to assist with exhibition expenses and installation provided by the Art Department.

A local Madison community-driven contemporary non-profit arts organization, the ALL provides the visual, literary, music and performing arts that presents over 200 events per year, mostly free or low-cost, and year-round arts education for all ages, working to make the arts more accessible and sustainable in our community.

2021 ALL PRIZE EXHIBITIONS
Photo of Roberto Torres Mata by Sarah Maughan.

Chazen Museum of Art 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Untethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders by Roberto Torres Mata
April 6 – May 14

Location: Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI

Relief art by Roberto Torres MataUntethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders by Roberto Torres Mata is a printmaking and installation art exhibition where visitors will be led on a journey through the exhibition space, guided by a path of migrating birds. Archaic symbols impressed into handmade paper evoke indigenous cultures of the Americas, while the words of migrants themselves are recorded on linen sheets suspended from the gallery ceiling—a piece made in collaboration with Argentinian artist Dani Zelko.

While specializing in printmaking, Mata’s practice encompasses a number of media, including relief woodblock printing, wood carving, and papermaking. He sees his artworks as a metaphor for both human and animal migration. In the materiality of his artwork, he intends to evoke the physical realities of migration. Mata aims to raise awareness of migration and destroy divisive barriers in order to promote compassion and humanity.

Awarded to one graduating MFA candidate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize is offered annually by the museum in collaboration with the UW-Madison Art Department. The winner, who receives an honorarium along with an exhibition at the Chazen, is selected by an outside juror; this year’s juror was Shannon R. Stratton, Executive Director of the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency in Saugatuck, Michigan.

UNTETHERED: OUR JOURNEY BEYOND BORDERS

ART STUDENT EVENTS

Glass, Meet the Future Film Festival 2021
March 20 - April 4

Artists included: Undergraduate Students Bre'Annah Stampley and Jessalyn Mailoa

Location: a hybrid approach of physical and virtual presentations

UW-Madison undergraduate glassworking students Bre'Annah Stampley and Jessalyn Mailoa will present their films during the Glass, Meet the Future Film Festival 2021. Untitled by Bre'Annah Stampley will go live on Monday, March 22nd, and Harus Berani by Jessalyn Mailoa will go live on Tuesday, March 23rd.

GMTF is a microcosm to explore the human relationship with glass and film, exploring dynamics with the physical and environmental context, together with the human and social context, dedicated to presenting a selection of new films pivoting around the medium of glass. The festival showcases a cross section of international diverse and engaging series of short films curated and directed by female identified and non-binary filmmakers using glass as the predominant feature, with the amalgamation of material and ephemeral, glass and video, at the heart of the film festival. Exploring the stories of how art is made, how artists survive, how they think and work, and what makes creativity our most important skill.

The GMTF Film Festival at North Lands Creative is part of the UK in Japan 2019-20 bilateral campaign, a partnership between British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland, and supported by project partners Toyama Institute of Glass Art, Toyama Glass Art Museum, and Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

GMTF FILM FEST 2021

ESL
March 11 - May 1

Artist: BFA Student Craig Jun Li

Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory during limited hours from 12-5pm Thursday through Saturday or by appointment, Project Space and Mezzanine Gallery, 111 S Livingston St Suite 100, Madison, WI

ESL includes recent sculptural works generated from their ongoing research on the circulation of diasporic objects and narratives in relation to visibility and policy-making.

Craig (Jun) Li is a multidisciplinary artist from China and is currently based in Madison, Wisconsin. Their practice examines dialectics and phenomenology of various positionalities to histories. They are interested in using an intersectional and ethnographic approach to study unconventional modes of meaning making.

ESL

UNMUTE YOURSELF

Artists: Ash Armenta, Jonathan Byxbe, Melissa Paterson, Olivia Stevens, Tony Torres (Advanced Graphics); Isabella Covert, Olivia Eis, Allie Fish, Lauren Gossard, Hedi Ma, Jackie Seiss, Mary Shampo, Pranav Volety, Sidney Zimmerman (Beginning Relief); Jocelyn Chan, Meghan Draheim, Madelyn Mascotti, Sophie Rewey, Tony Torres (Beginning and Advanced Intaglio); Carla Christenson, Jillian Freund, Honey Herr, Noah Laroia-Nguyen, Misa Rodriguez, Sophie Van Gheem, Xinyi Zhou (Beginning and Advanced Lithography)

The League of Unapologetic Printmakers presents UNMUTE YOURSELF: a virtual showcase of printed works, created in the Fall of 2020. Online and ongoing now!

UNMUTE YOURSELF

Let's Talk About It: The Art, The Artists and The Racial Justice Movement on Madison’s State Street

Book Art Director, Designer and Production Manager: Ian Chalgren [BFA '96]

Artists: 135 Black and Brown youth directed by SJ Hemmerich, Terrance Adeyanju, Darius Agard, Rafeeq Asad, Audifax and the Edgewood High School Social Justice Club, Melana Bass [BFA '17], Sharon Bjyrd, Bree Bregman, Cameron Brockman, Nic Brown (Jupiter Moon), Amira Caire, Isha Camara, Rodrigo Carapia, Tony Catteruccia, Kenneth Cole, Shiloah Symone Coley [Studio Art Certificate '20], Charlotte Cummins, Leslie Dickerson, Brooklyn Danae Doby, Drum Power, Daniella Echeverria [Studio Art Certificate '20], Silvan Felming Jr, Sirena Flores, Anwar Floyd-Pruit [MFA '20], Michael Ford, Sonya Forsythe, Lilada Gee, Shanice Grimsled, Ryan Hartman, Rosy and Ruby Hawbaker, Sharon Irwin [BS-Art Ed '86], Nicole Issaacs, Paulina Kababie, Monique Karlen [BS-Art Ed '89] with La Follette and Middleton High School Students, Synovia Knox [BS-Art '20], Gwen Kong [BS-Art Ed '03], Danielle Kraszewski, Rodney Lambright II [BS-Art '17], Dr. Yorel Lashley, Meri Lau, Simone Lawrence, Jan Lin, Mike Lore, Mike Lroy, Edgardo Lugo, T.L. Luke, Keysha Mabra, Cassy Marzette, Stefan Matioc, MFA Candidate Taj Matumbi, Danielle Mielke, RR Moore, Richi Morales, Carrie Morgan, Darren Morris, Ciara Nash, Lauden Nute, Batenga Obuseh, Kiyem Obuseh, Candace Patterson, Maia Pearson, Cassie Pierce, Poet Fabu, Jay Ramirez, Lature and Duowan Rimson, Rod DZ, Emida Roller, Sapphire Roller, Lincoln Rust, Philip Salamone [Art-BS '04], Salt Rock, Ava Stevenson, Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis, The Artist, Alice Traore, Triangulador, Kenechi Unachukwa, Iatse Union, Unknown, Urban Triage, Faleshuh Walker, Kati Walsh [BS-Art Ed '07] and O'Keeffe Middle School Art Students, Michael Ward, Comfort Wasikhongo [BFA '13], and Odalo Wasikhongo

After protests on Madison's State Street in the summer of 2020, American Family Insurance asked racial justice leaders in our home community what we could do to help. We were asked to "preserve the art" that the city of Madison had commissioned.

Let’s Talk About It: The Art, The Artists and The Racial Justice Movement on Madison’s State Street, a high-resolution photo book including statements from the artists involved, commemorates the racial justice murals painted on Madison’s State Street in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.

Download a free PDF of book.

LET'S TALK ABOUT IT

Winter is Alive! UW-Madison Art Department Community Project

Artists: Rebecca Bailey, Meredith Buenz, Emma Dickenscheidt, Maya Hofman, Rachel Nguyen, Rachael Ryan, and Megan Soldner

Instructor: Lecturer of Graphic Design Henrique Nardi

Location: online

Winter is Alive is pleased to highlight the community projects and events that are occurring throughout Madison and virtually online.

Last Fall, the UW-Madison ART 346: Basic Graphic Design students were tasked with designing a series of posters about the effects of global warming.

WINTER IS ALIVE! UW-MADISON ART DEPT COMMUNITY PROJECT

Now recruiting for the spring semester
The Artisan Collective

The Artisan Collective is a small, fair-trade business by selling jewelry made by global women artisans to help them achieve financial freedom and stability.

In this organization, students build their skillsets in design, retail, marketing, operations, finance, photography, and so much more! Students will hear from various speakers within the fair-trade and nonprofit realm.

THE ARTISAN COLLECTIVE

FACULTY & STAFF EVENTS & RESEARCH

Clever Birds
February 27 - April 11

Artists: Barry Roal Carlsen [MFA '83], Craig Clifford, Mary Hood, Kelli Hoppmann [BS-Art '85], Richard Jones, Lynne Hobaica, John S. Miller, Ryan Myers [MFA '05], Wendy Olson, UW Art 3D Technician Tim O’Neill [MFA '05], Allan Servoss, Jonathan Wilde, Kelly Connole, Debbie Kupinsky, and Erica Schlueter

Virtual Reception: Saturday, March 20, 1pm

Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery online, 524 E Main Street, Stoughton, WI

Few creatures have captured human imagination like those belonging to the Corvidae Family. These highly intelligent and social birds are among the only animals who have been observed making and using tools, and participating in complex rituals and games, owing in part to their incredible brain to body ratio, rivaled only by great apes and whales. While most are familiar with the largest species in this group, crows and ravens, their smaller cousins, jays, rooks, jackdaws, nutcrackers, and magpies too possess the family’s unique intelligence and curiosity. Their ubiquity, being found on every continent and climate with the exception of the polar icecaps, has also given corvids a special place in our collective consciousness, playing a significant role in nearly every culture’s mythology and folklore. This exhibition features work in all media inspired by birds in the Corvidae family.

CLEVER BIRDS

Myths and Legends
January 30 - April 11

Artist: Professor Emeritus Dean Meeker

Location: Museum of Wisconsin Art, Hyde Gallery, 205 Veterans Ave. West Bend, WI

Meeker’s figurative art focuses on the strengths and foibles of humankind, often drawing on the biblical and mythological subjects he learned about as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Northwestern University. Many, such as Joseph’s story and the Tower of Babel, contained an overt or implied morality tale. Meeker favored strong male heroes such as Ulysses, but he also chronicled a summer he spent working in a carnival as a teenager; Harry Houdini, Harlequin, and Mardi Gras offered related imagery. An accomplished horseman, Meeker similarly depicted steeds famous in myth and literature. Passion and relentless drive marked Meeker’s long career.

MYTHS AND LEGENDS

O Antiphons + CODE
March 1 - April 11

Artist: Professor of Graphic Design Yeohyun Ahn and Teokyeom Lee

Location: Komechak Art Gallery at Benedictine University virtual exhibition

Professor Yeohyun Ahn reinterprets the O Antiphons into generative typography using computer algorithms to be eloquent and revealing as a visual language.

The O Antiphons are used at Vespers on the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church has been singing the "O" Antiphons since the eighth century and they are the antiphons that accompany the Magnificat Canticle of Evening Prayer from December 17th to 23rd every year.

O Antiphons use ancient biblical imagery from the Old Testament's messianic hopes to proclaim the coming Christ to fulfill Old Testament hopes and present ones. Their repeated use of the imperative "Come!" embodies the longing, of all, for the Divine Messiah.

O ANTIPHONS + CODE

Shouting Lightning from Their Eyes
February 19 - April 17

Artist: Professor of Printmaking John Hitchcock

Location: Portrait Society Gallery Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5pm, Historic Third Ward, 207 E Buffalo St Ste 526, Milwaukee, WI

John Hitchcock uses the print medium with its long history of commenting on social and political issues to explore his relationships to community, land, and culture. Hitchcock’s artwork consists of abstract representations, mythological hybrid creatures (buffalo, owl, horse, deer) and military weaponry (tanks, bombs and helicopters). His work is based on childhood memories and stories of growing up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma on Comanche Tribal lands next to the US field artillery military base Fort Sill. Many of the images are interpretations of stories told by his Kiowa/Comanche grandparents and abstract representations influenced by beadwork, land, and culture.

Shouting Lighting from Their Eyes is a lament for the dead and the living. A visual poem in remembrance of friends, family and ancestors. The exhibition includes unique, hand-painted prints, neon sculpture, and textiles.

SHOUTING LIGHTNING FROM THEIR EYES

Some Place
March 13 - April 24

Artists: John E. Bannon, Sarah Blood, Matthew Cummings, Seth Fairweather, Jacob Fishman, Heather Hancock, Professor of Glassworking Helen Lee, Carmen Lozar, Harry Mintz, Catherine Newell, Tim Shaw, David Schwarz, Thomas Scoon, Kanako Togawa, and Bertil Vallien

Location: Ken Saunders Gallery, 2041 West Carroll Ave, Suite C-320, Chicago, IL

How much portent and mystery is invested in certain kinds of locales, certain points of interest, certain locations and certain periods of time? And in the case of the ordinary what powers of persuasion are necessary to imbue a place with texture, context and meaning? Why is the memory of place often so much stronger than our recollection of character and plot? What makes a Setting a Place?

SOME PLACE

Please Please Please
February 12 - July 24

Artist: Professor Emeritus Tom Loeser

Location: Center for Art in Wood, 141 N 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA

Presenting imaginative furniture and works on paper by Wisconsin-based maker and designer Tom Loeser. This playful show encourages viewers to shake up their habits and interact with the environment and one another, while considering issues such as body posture and etiquette that are often taken for granted. Loeser’s work also raises a clever question: “If the furniture we sit on every day were totally different, would our lives be different, too?”

Guest curated by Glenn Adamson, Please Please Please reimagines what furniture can be by juxtaposing the artist’s furniture with his series of pyrographs and cyanotype prints. Previous venues for this traveling exhibition include the Museum of Art and Design, San Francisco, the San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, and the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Gallery Talk with Tom Loeser and Glenn Adamson

Artist: Professor Emeritus Tom Loeser

Location: Center for Art in Wood online

Join us for a discussion with Artist Tom Loeser and Guest Curator Glenn Adamson on the exhibition Please, Please, Please. We’ll talk about Loeser’s imaginative approach to furniture and ponder the question: If the furniture we sit on every day were totally different, would our lives be different, too?

GALLERY TALK WITH TOM LOESER AND GLENN ADAMSON

ALUMNI EVENTS

Join the UW-Madison Art Alumni Facebook Community!

Share your art, events, updates, catch up with your fellow Badgers, and keep in contact with the Art Department all in one place.

JOIN THE ARTFUL BADGER

Landfall Press: Five Decades

Author: Thomas Cvikota [BS-Art '75]

LANDFALL PRESS: FIVE DECADES

Constructed Lanscape

Artist: Robert Aiosa [MFA '15]
Date: Mar 4 - 25
Location: The Studios of Key West, Sanger Gallery, 533 Eaton Street, Key West, FL

REVISION EXTENSION

Revision Extension

Artist: Gabe Pionkowski [MFA '13]
Date: Jan 29 - Apr 9
Location: Monroe Arts Center, by appointment only, 1315 11th St, Monroe, WI

REVISION EXTENSION

Carryon

Artist: Cate Richards [BS-Art '20]
Date: Jan 9 - Apr 11
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery online, 524 E Main Street, Stoughton, WI

CARRYON

The Destruction Project

Artist: Jojin Van Winkle [MFA '16]
Date: Oct 17 - Apr 11
Location: Imprint Gallery, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI

THE DESTRUCTION PROJECT

Night Bloomers

Artist: Ashley Lusietto [MFA '20]
Date: Feb 19 - Apr 17
Location: Portrait Society Gallery Thursday through Saturday, noon to 5pm, Historic Third Ward, 207 E Buffalo St Ste 526, Milwaukee, WI

NIGHT BLOOMERS

Online Art Classes by Angela Johnson [MFA '16]

Dates: Through May 13

  • The Artist's Book Club
  • Setting up a Home Studio Art Practice
  • Independent Study: Connections and Collaborations
  • Bookmaking-Make a Tunnel Book
  • Design your own Creative Adventure
ONLINE ART CLASSES

Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed. curated by Tyanna J. Buie [MFA '10]

Artists: Alex Peña [MFA '09], Almaz Wilson, Angelica Contreras, Anita Bates, Anwar Floyd-Pruitt [MFA '20], Ariana Vaeth, Arleene Correa Valencia, Blanche Brown, Carole Harris, Chanel Matsunami Govreau [BFA '11], Chelsea Flowers, Comfort Wasikhongo [BFA '13], Dakota Mace [MFA '17], Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, David Najib Kasir, Deja Milany, Della Wells, Dominic Chambers, Donté K. Hayes, Ebitenyefa Baralaye, Evelyn Patricia Terry, Fatima Laster, Feather Chiaverini, Freida High, G.E. Leo, Hannah Layden [BFA '09], Irene Antonia Diane Reece, Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Jova Lynne, kate-hers RHEE, Kelley-Ann Lindo, LaKela Brown, LaNia Sproles, LaToya Hobbs, Lisa Hunt, Mario Moore, Masimba Hwati, matt lambert, Molly Hassler, Mutópe J. Johnson, Nour Ballout, Odalo Wasikhongo, Patrick Quarm, Paul Baker Prindle [MFA '09], Phoenix S. Brown, Qualeasha Wood, Raeleen Kao [BFA '11], Rashaun Rucker, Renluka Maharaj, Roger Allan Cleaves [MFA '11], Romano Johnson, Rosemary Ollison, Sabrina Nelson, Sean G. Clark, Shani Peters, Sharon Kerry-Harlan, Shiloah Symone Coley [Studio Art Certificate '20], Steve Prince, Taylor Childs, T.J. Dedeaux-Norris, and Tom Jones II [BFA '88]
Date: Feb 26 - May 23
Location: Trout Museum of Art and online, 111 W College Ave, Appleton, WI

UNRAVELED. RE STRUCTURED. REVEALED.

Vulnerable Bodies

Artists: Erica Hess [BFA '02], Masako Onodera, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Demitra Copoulos, J. Myska Lewis [MFA '15], and Valaria Tatera [MFA '98]
Date: Apr 15 - Jul 24
Location: James Watrous Gallery at Garver Feed Mill, 3241 Garver Green, Madison, WI

VULNERABLE BODIES

AFFILIATE EVENTS

Guardian Fine Art Midwest Art Shuttle Service

Location: 1635 W St Paul Ave, Milwaukee, WI

Guardian Fine Art Services has launched a Midwest Art Shuttle servicing Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and all points in between. With an appointment, artwork can be dropped off at Guardian Fine Art Services, 1635 W St Paul Ave, Milwaukee or artwork can be picked up at artists' studios, directly from museums and collectors, or other locations. A Door County route has just been added. Packing, crating and installation services are also available.

GUARDIAN FINE ART SERVICES

2021 gener8tor Art 12-Week Accelerator Program

Deadline: March 27

Program date: May 31 - August 20

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Meticulous

Artists: Sandra Byers and Reid Schoonover
Date: February 27 - April 11
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery online, 524 E Main Street, Stoughton, WI
METICULOUS

Out of This World

Artist: Gladys Nilsson
Date: August 6 - June 6
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Signs of the Times

Artist: Patrick Martinez
Date: January 23 - April 23
Panel Discussion: Latinx Art And/As Activism in Wisconsin - Friday, March 19, 5:30-6:30pm
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

A Narrative Thread

Artist: Amy Cutler
Date: February 20 - May 16
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI

A NARRATIVE THREAD

The Wandering Rocks

Artist: Santiago Cucullu
Date: August 6 - August 1
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI

THE WANDERING ROCKS

Full Circle: Acquisitions and Exhibitions

Date: November 14 - August 22
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI

FULL CIRCLE: ACQUISITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

The Nature of Things

Artist: Suzanne Caporael
Date: February 23 - September 12
Location: Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave, Madison, WI

THE NATURE OF THINGS
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