Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Art Department,
This week we are happy to announce the upcoming exhibition available at Tandem Press's Apex Gallery is the  Master of Fine Arts thesis printmaking exhibition The Hallowed Veil by our UW-Madison MFA Candidate and the 2020-2021 Tandem Press Project Assistant, Jonathan Byxbe. Each year, our graduate printmaking students are employed at Tandem Press to complement their coursework with practical hands-on experience, gaining an unparalleled insight into the professional art world by working as assistants to the Tandem Press master printers and curators in the production and promotion of fine art prints created by leading contemporary artists. This exhibition is the culmination of Byxbe's three years in graduate school and consists of reductive relief prints delving into the artist’s own folklore that attempts to give context to the world around us. While his career has included many details into different methods of printmaking,  relief printmaking has always been the backbone of Byxbe’s work as his personal favorite style of relief in reduction prints. Congratulations to Jonathan Byxbe and thanks to our partners at Tandem Press for their continued commitment to the local Madison art community through their programming at the Apex Gallery and operating an internationally renowned fine art print publishing press. Byxbe's exhibition is viewable in person by appointment only (email info@tandempress.wisc.edu to schedule your visit) or online from April 21st through May 5th.
This week, the final Spring 2021 Colloquium artist talk on Wednesday, April 21st will feature our current and upcoming UW-Madison art alumni, with MFA Candidate and interdisciplinary artist Jamie Jacobson, recent MFA alumna and artist, jeweler, and arts educator Cate Richards, and BS-Art alum, commercial artist, and the Art Department lecturer of Making Comics Jeff Butler. Please see their biographical information and examples of their works below. We are very fortunate to have them share their works and processes with us at our Visiting Artist Colloquium. They each make vital contributions to the Art Department and it is our honor to host them.
We are coming close to the end of the spring term. Spring advising and the admissions for next Fall's incoming class is wrapping up, so big thanks to the Art Department advisors and vital staff members: Julie Ganser, Branden Martz, and Matthew Mauk.
Our campus facilities are still closed to the public but we hope to host you at the receptions for exhibitions in our galleries in the near future. I hope to feature some exciting news in the final Newsletters remaining before we break for the summer as well.
Chair Derrick Buisch
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IN THE NEWS
Work by UW–Madison’s Abdu’Allah published in ‘Under the Southern Stars’, UW-Madison School of Education News, March 24, 2021.
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.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department is Hiring! Apply now for our Full Time Department Administrator Staff Position
We are seeking a candidate that thrives on problem solving, collaboration, and providing excellent service in a fast-paced and diverse academic department. Under the general supervision and direction of the Department Chair, this position is an academic department administrator that serves as a resource for the Art Department. As the leader of a team of administrative professionals, this position will be responsible for managing daily financial, human resources (HR) and office management activities while providing excellent customer support to faculty, staff, and students. This position will take ownership in developing and monitoring annual and summer budgets to help the department meet its mission and vision, ensuring continuity of daily operations by managing payroll and benefits for the department as a whole, and collaborating with other research and academic units to maintain compliance with state, university, and federal laws.
The ideal candidate will be a service-minded team leader with a passion for process improvement; someone looking to make a positive difference in the lives of all their employees. If you are organized, detail oriented, and possess excellent communication skills, please consider applying for this position! A background in or a familiarity with Arts culture is a plus.
Applications close April 26, 2021, 11:55pm.
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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.
April 21
UW-Madison current and upcoming Alumni
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Jamie Jacobson [MFA '21]
Jamie Jacobson is an interdisciplinary artist using invented characters to explore the trauma inherent in growing up and the ways children use magic to overcome those traumas. Through painting, sculpture and works on paper, Jacobson examines the characters they became to survive their own childhood. Originally from central Wisconsin, Jacobson moved south in 2011 to study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where they received degrees in studio art and creative writing. Jacobson is now a third-year MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying drawing, painting, and sculpture. Next fall of 2021, Jacobson will be teaching Life Drawing and Advanced Drawing at the UW. inkwelleyes.com
The VAC series is supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust.
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Cate Richards [MFA '20]
An artist, jeweler, and educator currently living in Madison, Wisconsin, Cate Richards' work takes advantage of our fascination and romanticization of the antiquated, the worn, the outmoded—pre-industrial tools and their relation to creation and penance, spiritualism and witchery. She has been awarded several travel grants for research, including funding for fieldwork in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to study the copper mining culture of the area, and in Appalachia at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center to learn broommaking.
Richards has exhibited internationally and has shown work at Abel Contemporary in Stoughton, Wisconsin, Lillstreet Arts Center in Chicago, and the Gallery im Körnerpark, Berlin. She balances her studio practice along with working with nonprofit arts institutions and educational initiatives and has held positions at Wheelhouse Studios, The Lawrence Arts Center, P.E.O.P.L.E. Program, and The Society of North American Goldsmiths.
Richards graduated from Baker University with a BA in both Art and Art History in 2012, and earned her MA/MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020. Currently, she is a Lecturer for ART100: Intro to Art at UW-Madison. In the summer of 2021, Richards will be a resident at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. caterichardsart.com
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Jeff Butler [BS-Art '18]
An illustrator and comic book and video game artist, Jeff Butler broke into the comic book field in the early ‘80s, helping writer Mike Baron create The Badger for Capital Comics. He spent five years in the world famous art department of TSR, Inc., the American game publishing company Tactical Studies Rules founded by the creators of Dungeons & Dragons. At TSR, he illustrated many D&D and DragonLance game products and was also the principal artist for the Marvel Super Heroes (role playing game). In 1989, Butler teamed up with writer Ron Fortier to bring The Green Hornet back to comic books. Butler would go on to illustrate other comics: Jurassic Park, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Charles Barkley vs. Godzilla, to name a few. His art has been featured nationally in TV Guide and The Children’s Television Workshop magazines, and Universal Studios licensing. Butler also worked in the video game industry as a 2D and 3D character designer and concept artist at Raven Software. He was the Lead Character Artist for games like X-Men Legends I & II and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and contributed art to nine other AAA video games.
In 2018, Butler reenrolled full time at the UW to complete the 25 credits needed to earn the art degree he started in the 70s, studying under renowned cartoonist and writer Professor Lynda Barry. Butler currently teaches Making Comics at the UW-Madison and Drawing Fundamentals at Madison College. He continues to do freelance illustration and commissions. jeff-butler.com
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Violeta Luna: Lecture and Workshop
Cor-po/etics: A poetics of the Body in Performance Lecture: Tuesday, April 20, 4pm CST Zoom Webinar
For Those Who Are No Longer Here: Exorcizing the Necropolitics of Gender Violence Workshop: Thursday, April 22, 4pm CST Zoom Webinar
The Center for Visual Cultures hosts Violeta Luna, a San Francisco-based performance artist. Her works reflect and inquire upon the relationship between theatre, performance art and community engagement. Working in a multidisciplinary space that allows for the crossing of aesthetic and conceptual borders, Luna uses her body as a territory to question and comment on social and political phenomena.
Both events are free and open to the public. They are possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Anonymous Fund and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.
The Center for Visual Cultures would also like to thank Art, Art History, Gender and Women’s Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, Disability Studies Initiative, Graduate and Professional Students with Disabilities Initiative, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, Center for Humanities, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
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UW-Madison Glass Lab
Mad Gaffers Cheesy Glass Spring Sale
Open until Friday, April 23
Mad Gaffers, the student-run organization for the UW Glass Lab, is hosting an online spring glass sale! All items are cheese-themed and are handmade by glass students of all levels. Proceeds from the sale will support extracurricular activities, supplies, and community-building events for glass students. Check out all of our one-of-a-kind pieces at mad-gaffers.myshopify.com. Sale ends on Friday, April 23rd!
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2021 Arts Business Competition
Friday, April 23 @ Noon-2pm CDT on Zoom
On Friday, April 23 at noon, finalists will present their artistic proposals to a virtual audience where a judging panel will deliberate and select who receives funding of $2,000, $1,000, and $500 in support of their projects. Tune in to cast your vote for the Audience Choice Award, which provides a supplemental $500 award to one finalist group! This event will be accessible and live captions will be provided, registration is required.
Presented by the Division of the Arts with support from the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. Funding for the Arts Business Competition is provided by the Anonymous Fund.
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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.
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Call for 2021 Kohler Art Fellows Applications
Deadline: Saturday, May 15
The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is accepting applications for the Marie Christine Kohler Fellowship 2021 cohort, which will pair science and art fellows together on the creation of science-art fusion projects and events. This paid opportunity is open to graduate and professional students from UW–Madison. The Kohler Fellows Program is supported by the Kohler Foundation and the UW–Madison Graduate School.
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Call for a2ru 2021 Annual Conference Proposals
Deadline: Friday, May 21, 5pm EDT
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is accepting proposals for their 2021 national annual online conference, Sharing Stories: The Case for Art, November 3-5.
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Call for 2022-2023 Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Teaching (IART) Program Proposals
Deadline Extended: Monday, September 13 by 5pm
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts is changing the name of the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) to Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Teaching (IART) program starting in July 2021. The residencies will move from semester-long to almost a full-year starting in the summer of 2022 with the future IART artist teaching and living in the Madison region in the spring of 2023.
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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!
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MASTER OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITIONS
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Chazen Museum of Art 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Untethered: Our Journey Beyond Borders by Roberto Torres Mata
April 7 – May 14
Our Kind of Happy Hour with Roberto Torres Mata: Wednesday, April 28, 6pm online
Location: Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Avenue, Madison, WI
 Untethered: 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.
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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
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, during limited hours from 12-5pm Thursday through Saturday or by appointment, 111 S Livingston St Suite 100, Madison, WI
 Mo 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.
 (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.
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The Hallowed Veil
April 21 - May 5
Artist: Jonathan Byxbe
Location: Tandem Press Apex Gallery by appointment only (email info@tandempress.wisc.edu to schedule your visit) or online, 1743 Commercial Ave, Madison, WI
Folklore is one of our oldest traditions. Passing along stories between generations to help them understand the way the universe functions. This knowledge is woven into our stories to help light the path towards understanding. Stories that would draw you in and leave clues to help you find their deeper meaning. Stories with so many layers and connections that one would have to truly sit with these stories to let them develop and mature. This layering of meaning is the same approach I use for my reductive relief prints. Using many layers of ink, I’ve been building the foundations of my folklore. Steeped in the arcane and occult knowledge, I leave a trail of clues through which to better understand the world around us.
This exhibition is made possible through support from the Anonymous Fund.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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FACULTY & STAFF EVENTS & RESEARCH
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Boxes
April 16 - May 30
Artists: Barry Roal Carlsen [MFA '83], Richard Jones, Lynne Hobaica, Brandon Norsted [MFA '09], Erica Schlueter, UW Art 3D Technician Tim O’Neill [MFA '05], Emeritus Professor Tom Loeser, Professor of Woodworking Katie Hudnall, Larry Stephens [MFA '00], Jerilyn Virden, Alicia Czechowski, and Reid Schoonover
Virtual Reception: Thursday, April 22, 7:30pm
Reception: Friday, April 23, 5-8pm, reservation required
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery online, 524 E Main Street, Stoughton, WI
An exhibition of handcrafted boxes, including the work of artists from across the country and encompassing both functional forms and artistic interpretations.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Landfall Press: Five Decades
Author: Thomas Cvikota [BS-Art '75]
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Trace
Artist: Allison Roberts [MFA '17]
Date: Mar 18 - May 1
Location: Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, 51 Sheboygan St,
Fond du Lac, WI
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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
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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
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Tangled
Artist: Gregory Schulte [MFA '91]
Date: Apr 16 - May 30
Reception: Fri, Apr 16, 5-8pm, reservations required
Virtual Reception: Sat, Apr 17, 1pm
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery online, 524 E Main Street, Stoughton, WI
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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
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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.
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In no. 5 : vacant rites : selected works from ‘the splinters in our hands’
Artist: ian van d.
Date: April 16 - May 30
Virtual Reception: Thursday, April 22, 7:30pm
Reception: Friday, April 23, 5-8pm, reservation required
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery online, 524 E Main Street, Stoughton, WI
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Signs of the Times
Artist: Patrick Martinez
Date: January 23 - April 23
Artist Talk with Patrick Martinez: Thursday, April 22, 5:30pm Facebook Live
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI
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A Narrative Thread
Artist: Amy Cutler
Date: February 20 - May 16
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI
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Alone Together: Perspectives on Isolation
Artists: 14 teen artists in the Dane County area
Organized by: MMoCA Teen Forum
Date: April 3 - June 6
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI
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Out of This World
Artist: Gladys Nilsson
Date: August 6 - June 6
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI
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The Wandering Rocks
Artist: Santiago Cucullu
Date: August 6 - August 1
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI
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Full Circle: Acquisitions and Exhibitions
Date: November 14 - August 22
Location: MMoCA, 227 State St, Madison, WI
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The Nature of Things
Artist: Suzanne Caporael
Date: February 23 - September 12
Location: Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave, Madison, WI
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