Roshini Kempadoo: Black Gold to Dust Lecture and Workshop

Black Gold to Dust Lecture: Visualizing narratives and slow violence: Tuesday, April 6, 12pm CST Zoom Webinar

Black Gold to Dust Workshop: Sustaining futures and reimagining black Atlantic worlds: Thursday, April 8, 12pm CST Zoom Webinar

The Center for Visual Cultures hosts Roshini Kempadoo, a media artist, photographer, and scholar for a lecture and workshop. Her research, multimedia, and photographic projects combine factual and fictional re-imaginings of contemporary experiences, histories, and memories.

Both events are free and open to the public. They are possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Anonymous Fund.

The Center for Visual Cultures would also like to thank the Departments of Art, Art History, Communication Arts, Gender and Women’s Studies, The Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, The Center for Culture, History and Environment, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, The Center for Humanities, and The Institute for Research in the Humanities.

Call for Entries: Design 2021 Annual Juried Student Exhibition

Deadline: Sunday, April 18

This spring, the Center for Design and Material Culture (CDMC) and the Design Studies Department present Design 2021, a virtual edition of the School of Human Ecology's (SoHE) annual juried student exhibition. UW–Madison students of all majors are invited to submit their best design work generated through Design Studies courses over the past four semesters (January 2020 through April 2021) for consideration. Selected work will be curated into an online exhibition.

The Design 2021 exhibition will be launched on the CDMC website in mid-May 2021. A virtual awards ceremony and online exhibition launch celebration will occur in May 2021 (date TBD based on awardee availability).

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!

Chasing a Reservoir of Ghosts
Monday, April 12 @ 6-9pm

Artist: BFA Student Kennedy McCarthy

Location: Wine & Design, 167 S Fair Oaks Ave, Madison, WI

Join our very own Kennedy McCarthy in her first official solo exhibition for an interactive experience emphasizing memories and the importance of the past. One night only, bring a friend to enjoy a drink at the bar and partake in the full experience of the ceramic vessels. Explore your past and leave pieces of it behind in the protection of her handmade ceramic forms.

A Space of One’s Own
April 1 - May 1

Curated by: Sam Christensen

Including: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt [MFA '20], MFA Candidate Claire Kellesvig, Guzzo Pinc [MFA '20], MFA Candidate Taj Matumbi, and Ryan Prehara [BFA '20]

Location: 100state, 17 S Fairchild St, Floor 7, Madison, WI

100state is proud to present our latest gallery show A Space of One’s Own in conjunction with a silent auction and fundraiser, featuring products from over thirty area businesses and artists!

Virtual viewing will be available, as well as limited in-person appointments on Saturdays throughout the month of April.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Professor of Printmaking Faisal Abdu’Allah featured in Under the Southern Stars

Edited by: Gabriela Salgado

Published by: Te Tuhi

Under the Southern Stars is a collection of texts that accompanied exhibitions curated by Te Tuhi Artistic Director Gabriela Salgado between 2017 and 2020. Written by Salgado and selected artists, the texts, quotes and poems hinge on a connection to place: within Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa (the Pacific) and countries with similar colonial legacies. They extend the dialogue prompted by the artworks, build new relationships, and refuse to ignore difficult histories and contemporary politics. Most are previously unpublished, and coexist in the space of the publication as a means for these conversations to continue connecting with a wide audience.

Live Salon by Professor Abdu'Allah exhibited at Te Tuhi in May 2019, after it premiered as part of The British Art Show in 2006 and then was performed in many other locations, including the Tate Britain, Autograph, and Tandem Press.