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Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Art Department,
The challenge of being located in two buildings on campus is offset with a delightful four block walk from the Humanities Building to the Art Lofts; throughout the year, the Art Department does a significant number of tours that travel between the buildings. An aspect of our regular recruitment efforts, it is our pleasure to make sure that people interested in our department have a chance to see what we do through this thorough tour and introduction to all parts of the Art Department. Last year we made contact with over 500 individuals with our thirty outreach events.
On the subject of tours— we want to make sure all of you know that we are enthusiastically inviting everyone to our Open Studio Days on Saturday, November 5th. This annual event allows for us to show off all the great work being done across the Department as over fifty of our student's studios will be open to the public.
This week we want to take a moment to recognize the great work going on next door at the Chazen. Currently there are two excellent exhibitions that warrant an extended visit to the museum and some sustained viewing. Please mark your calendars for Echoing Overseas: Asian Artistic Exchange (on display through November 28th) and the exhibition Sifting & Reckoning: UW-Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance. Another recommendation that is related to the Chazen is Works on Paper WEHNSday with James Wehn!—this weekly posting on Wednesdays from the Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper is always a weekly highlight in the the museum's social media news feeds. Congratulations to our art partners at the Chazen for these great shows.
 This week the Art Department Colloquium features cross-disciplinary artist Sarah Reagan who makes sculptures that insert childlike humor into traditionally brutal materials. Join our weekly Colloquium Visiting Artist Lectures online or in person in room L160 in the Elvehjem Building.
Thank you for following us and staying in touch.
Chair Derrick Buisch
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UW/ART
IN THE NEWS
Leslie Smith III wins Joan Mitchell Fellowship, UW-Madison School of Education News, September 23, 2022.
Couple’s multi-media dance work addresses race, prejudice and inequity by Vicki Larson, Marin Independent Journal, September 21, 2022.
Madison Artist Faisal Abdu'Allah's “Dark Matter” Invites Public into His Journey of Transformation by Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, September 20, 2022.
‘The art of unlearning’ is focus of new paper from UW–Madison’s Baldacchino, UW-Madison School of Education News, September 16, 2022.
New Faculty Focus: Michael Velliquette, UW-Madison News, September 13, 2022.
Child’s play is ‘anything but frivolous,’ Barry tells New York Times, UW-Madison School of Education News, September 8, 2022.
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UW-Madison Art Department
Annual Open Studio Day 2022
Saturday, November 5 @ 12-6pm
Locations: Humanities Building, 6th and 7th Floors, 455 N Park St
Art Lofts, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 5th from noon to 6pm as we once again host our Annual Open Studio Day 2022. Over 50 artist studios will be open at this annual autumn arts celebration event! Meet the student artists, see their work, and get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into their working process.
In both of the buildings that house our operations—the 6th and 7th floors of the Humanities Building and the Art Lofts—more than 50 studios will be open to showcase our multidisciplinary graduate students. This event will also include a number of special presentations at our different media labs and workshops as well as our undergraduates working in their studios and labs and department tours.
All studios and events are free to visit!
Humanities Building, 6th and 7th Floors, 455 N Park St: Only one Humanities Building elevator goes to the top 6th and 7th floors. Enter the Humanities building through the open breezeway on the ground floor and go in the doors marked “ART” in large white letters (E01-02) that are nearest to the Chazen Museum’s back entrance (the Chazen is next-door, immediately to the east). In the lobby the stairs and elevator are to the left.
Art Lofts, 111 N Frances St: The Art Lofts building is located to the east next to the Kohl Center.
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FALL 2022 VISITING ARTIST COLLOQUIUM
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department
Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Wednesdays @ 5 - 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
Discover the latest developments in Fine art, Craft, and Design at our free public lectures by some of the nation’s most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors.
The Art Department Colloquium is a series supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust. Visiting Artist lectures are held every Wednesday and Faculty lectures are held every Thursday during the academic year, and are free and open to the public.
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October 19
Sarah Reagan
Sarah Reagan is a cross-disciplinary artist making sculptures that insert childlike humor into traditionally brutal materials. Reagan served in the Peace Corps in Togo (2017) and Mexico (2018-2020). She currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches woodworking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the Minneapolis International Airport, the Corrente de Ar in Lisbon, Portugal, and the City College Art Gallery in San Diego, California. She received her MFA in Furniture Design in 2022 from the Craft/Material Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and her BFA from Iowa State University in 2017.
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Enigma: The Prints of David Lynch
September 6 – October 28
Location: Tandem Press, 1743 Commercial Ave, Madison, WI 53704
Enigma: The Prints of David Lynch presents a selection of fine art prints that David Lynch created at Tandem Press between 1998 and 2021. A free outdoor screening of the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life will be shown during the exhibition reception.
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Call for Artists: Create the Art that Welcomes People to the New Home of CDIS
Apply by October 27, 2022
The School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS) will commission art for the planter area outside of the northeast entrance to the new building opening in 2025. This prominent location will be viewable by community members both from the University Avenue and Charter Street and from elevated vantage points. We hope to create a visual and physical invitation to join our CDIS community. The commissioned work can draw inspiration from technology and be responsive to the building’s architectural design concepts including nature, sustainability, and connecting with others to create community and drive global impact. It can also embrace the natural features and seasonality of our local Wisconsin landscape.
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How to breathe at a shopping mall: Exhibition Opening
September 30 - November 4
Location: Union South Gallery, Madison, WI 53704
How to breathe at a shopping mall contains an ongoing collection of indoor plants propagated from Chicagoland retail spaces, along with a series of accompanying artworks in the gallery by artists Anton Auth and Sara Grose. This project draws on the artists’ interests towards the poetics of human presence, plant provenance and the retail apocalypse.
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Workers in Progress by Anthony Adcock: Exhibition Opening
September 30 - November 11
Location: Main Gallery, Memorial Union, Madison, WI 53704
“Workers in Progress” is a collection of thoughts and moments generated at the intersection of blue-collar construction and contemporary art. Viewers will encounter job-site inspired trompe l’oeil paintings, sculptures, and installations which function as a conceptual bridge that explores the relationship between labor and value.
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Division of the Arts launches new website and Call for Proposals for its Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts has launched a new website for its Arts Residency Programs, synchronized with the opening of the call for proposals for the 2023–24 cycle of its Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program.
The Division of the Arts’Arts Residency Programs bring innovative and diverse artists to the UW–Madison for semester-long, academic year-long and short-term residencies. Visiting artists bring their expertise to campus arts programs, open opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, expand students’ horizons and engage with campus and Madison communities.
Complete and share your proposal for the 23–24 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program by Monday, November 14, 2022 at noon CT.
Visit artsresidency.wisc.edu and artsresidency.wisc.edu/propose for more information.
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Questioning Things: A Quarter Century of Material Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
August 24 - November 20
Location: School of Human Ecology, Nancy Nicholas Hall, Ruth Davis Design Gallery, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5-7pm
Questioning Things invites visitors to look closely, to sit down, to compare, to connect, and to interrogate the common and wondrous objects that have animated the work of scholars and students across our campus. It shares things that make us curious, things we might covet, and things that open new worlds of intellectual possibility.
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Uncut Attire: How Weaving Informs Wearables
September 14 - December 4
Location: School of Human Ecology, Nancy Nicholas Hall, Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706
Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5-7pm
How has weaving influenced clothing design, particularly in cultures where handweaving is strongly embedded into communities? This exhibition, completely drawn from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, will show the creative ways various Indigenous cultures have found ways to create garments with minimal to no cutting or sewn construction.
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Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance
September 12 - December 23
Location: Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706
For generations, University of Wisconsin–Madison students and staff have been committed to the “fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found,” a commitment to understanding the world and using that knowledge to improve the lives of people in Wisconsin and beyond. But the university has never stood separate from the nation’s currents of exclusion, or from its struggles for equality. Soon, the university community will have an unprecedented opportunity to learn from its own histories of discrimination and resistance, to sift and reckon with our past. In the fall of 2022, the UW–Madison Public History Project will present Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance to the public through a collaborative partnership with the Chazen Museum of Art. The UW–Madison Public History Project is a multiyear effort to uncover and give voice to these histories. In response to the increased awareness of the Ku Klux Klan’s presence on campus in the 1920s, Chancellor Rebecca Blank created the project to better understand our university’s past. The exhibition will survey over 150 years of history, using archival materials, objects, and oral histories to bring to light stories of struggle, perseverance, and resistance on campus.
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Art for Change:
UW's First Art Activism Club
Using art as a medium for change in society and campus life.
Through service on projects, on-campus murals, fundraisers, art shows, and other art making events, our mission is to promote social justice, inclusivity, diversity, activism, sustainability, community, and education through art.
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Congratulations to 2022-23 Marie Christine Kohler Art Fellow Praveen Maripelly!
Maripelly's MFA research aims is to use various artistic methods to creatively approach every aspect of life to bring about positive social change by seeking to blur lines between gender and caste issues, address institutional racism and colourism, and build social interactions and relations between people in rural areas and the greater global community through ethical components of generosity, hospitality, connections, and social aesthetic ‘conversation’.
The Marie Christine Kohler Fellows at WID are graduate or professional students selected on the strength of their commitment and abilities to contribute to interdisciplinary thought. The Kohler Fellows work and collaborate within WID, connecting graduate students across campus through a range of stimulating projects and events.
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FACULTY & STAFF EVENTS & RESEARCH
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2022 AIGA National Design Conference
October 20 - 22
Location: Seattle, WA and Virtual
Announcing the professional association for design 2022 conference main stage speakers, including Professor Taekyeom Lee. The annual design conference is one of the biggest gatherings of professionals.
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In no. 5: Halls Creek Lodge by Tim O’Neill
September 16 - November 6
In-Person Artist Talk: Saturday, October 22, 2pm
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI
Tim O’Neill is an accomplished studio artist working in both wood and metal. His most recent body of work, Halls Creek Lodge, looks to Castor canadensis, the North American Beaver, for inspiration. While surveying damage wrought by beavers on a recent visit to a friend’s riverside cabin, O’Neill was struck by the uncanny resemblance between a chewed piece of wood and Constantin Brancusi’s sculpture, Torso of a Young Man. O’Neill sees the works in this body as collaborations with beavers, using gnawed wood forms as impetus for furniture and sculptures. Drawing connections between the “mark making” of the beaver’s teeth and the wood worker’s chisels and saws, O’Neill also creates imagined sculptural tools using cast beaver teeth in playful visual comparisons.
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Paper Cuts
August 25 - October 23
Artists: Charles Clary, Karen Margolis, Claude-Gerard Jean, Anna Grace Burch, Jerushia Graham, Austin Cathey, Lauren Kussro, Avery Fleeman, Griffin Carrick, Hazel Sebastian Glass, Professor Michael Villiquette, Maggie Kerrigan, Ann Stewart, and Jen Swearington
Location: Woodstock Arts, Reeves House Visual Arts Center 734 Reeves Street, Woodstock, GA, 30188
“One of the things I find most fascinating about this exhibit”, Visual Arts Director Nicole Lampl says, “is that these brilliant artists have taken the humble medium of paper—an everyday item that we all use – and have transformed it in unexpected and surprising ways. These artists have creatively manipulated paper through a wide variety of techniques and processes—folding, cutting, collaging, layering, burning, sculpting, and even dyeing with household chemicals..”
Lampl, who also curated the Paper Cuts exhibit, explains that this is a “medium focused” exhibit. Many of the exhibits at the Reeves House or other contemporary art museums are based on themes, such as the concept of ‘home,’ or present new work by a particular artist. A medium-focused exhibit, however, takes a specific material (metal, clay, textiles,, etc.), and showcases its versatility. This exhibit expands far beyond traditional uses of paper—these are not just artworks that happen to be on paper, but are instead celebrations of paper itself and the myriad of ways that it can be transformed by the hand of the artist.
“My hope,” Lampl says, “is that guests will be inspired to see how everyday materials can become artwork, and that creating art doesn’t require expensive supplies. We all have creative impulses, but often don’t know where to begin or how to express them. But, there is a large community of people out there that will benefit from you sharing your talent and creativity. We can all create something more for ourselves and for our community—this begins with simple beginnings and small steps. Although art can be unapproachable at times, I hope that seeing what can be created from such a simple medium makes it more approachable, and gives us all a greater appreciation for the capacity of humble beginnings to become beautiful endings.”
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Beyond the Frame
July 8 - October 30
Including: Professor Tom Jones
Location: Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL
Beyond the Frame spotlights the MoCP’s permanent collection. By placing works by historical and contemporary, local and international artists together according to distinct themes, we invite you to look with awareness, and when you re-enter the image-saturated world beyond the museum’s walls, to pursue thoughtful, questioning engagement with the visual depictions you encounter. There is always more to the story beyond the frame.
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19th Annual Ceramics Invitational: Group Show
September 16 - November 6
Artists: Jamie Bates Slone, Sandra Byers, Winthrop Byers, Jeff Campana, Nick DeVries, Delores Fortuna, Stuart Gair, Daniel Garver, Mark Goudy, Professor Gerit Grimm, Rain Harris, Rick Hintze, Stacey Johnson Hardy, Nicole McLaughlin, Charlie Olson, Kyungmin Park, Matt Repsher, Reid Schoonover, Juliane Shibata, Jose Sierra, Mark Skudlarek, and Shumpei Yamaki
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI
For the 19th year, Abel Contemporary Gallery will host an invitational of new works by ceramicists from across the country. One of our most anticipated exhibits, the show will be available in person and online.
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Kyoung Ae Cho: Pause and Dakota Mace: Land and Memory
September 9 - November 6
Location: James Watrous Gallery in the Overture Center for the Arts, 201 State St, Madison, WI 53703
Artists Kyoung Ae Cho and Dakota Mace grapple with the natural world, family, memory, and loss. Cho's art is grounded in an intimate dialogue with organic materials and the way their physical properties reveal nature’s language of growth and change. Drawing from her Diné heritage, Mace explores themes of family lineage, community, identity, and the concept of balance within nature. Her art has often centered on the symmetry of designs within Diné culture and the stories connected to land.
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Taekyeom Lee
October 10 - November 11
Location: The Lightwell Gallery, OU School of Visual Arts, University of Oklahoma, 520 Parrington Oval, Rm. 202, Norman, OK
Taekyeom Lee will have a solo exhibition in The Lightwell Gallery at the University of Oklahoma.
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Small Neon
September 9 - November 15
Including: Professor Helen Lee and Lecturer Thomas Zickuhr
Location: Ken Saunders Gallery, 2041 West Carroll, Chicago, IL
Featuring an expanded rooster of artists including newcomers like young Chicago artist Audra Jacot and the incomparable Neon Queen, Lisa Schulte of Los Angeles. A total of twenty artists have created small works in neon. Admission is FREE and all of the works are for sale.
Neon is lit. Neon is sexy and cool. Neon is the past and future. Neon is N0W.
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Remnants
September 23 - November 18
Location: Lawrence University, Hoffmaster Gallery, 613 East College Avenue, Appleton, WI
Remnants by Professor Tom Jones offers visitors a deeper exploration of the ways American Indians have been visually represented in historical popular culture and also raises crucial questions about these depictions of identity. The dialogue between the engraved images and the vibrantly colored carpets in the photographs encourages reflection about events in U.S. history and the future for Indian communities with casino revenues.
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Swept: This Work I Will Do by Lecturer Cate O'Connell-Richards
June 17 - November 27
Location: Chace Gallery, Hancock Shaker Village,, 1843 West Housatonic St, Pittsfield, MA
In Swept: This Work I Will Do, artist and broom squire Cate O'Connell-Richards [MFA '20] presents a series of broom-inspired sculptures alongside Shaker brooms, connecting Shakers to contemporary craft practices and exploring the Shakers’ influence on American craft and art today.
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Through A Glass, Darkly
September 9 - December 31
Including: Professor Helen Lee, MFA Candidate Carolyn Spears, Heather Sutherland [MFA '17], and Matt Jacob [BFA '18]
Location: The Delaware Contemporary, 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE
Spanning across six galleries, selected works engage the historical promise and power of the material to reveal and to bring clarity, while challenging viewers to acknowledge an inherent interconnectedness between enhancement and distortion.
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Reclaiming Identity
August 26 - January 8, 2023
Curated by: Lecturer Dakota Mace
Including: Professors John Hitchcock and Tom Jones
Location: Trout Museum of Art, 111 W College Ave, Appleton, WI
25 renowned Indigenous artists from across the U.S. and Mexico tell stories of identity and share what it means to take control and preserve their culture. Through the themes of borders, family lineage, shared histories, colonization, and assimilation, the artists respond to the complexity of blood quantum in their artwork and demonstrate how they are reclaiming their Indigenous cultures.
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Fascination Paper
August 14 - January 15, 2023
Including: Professor Michael Velliquette
Location: Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Neue Bahnhofstraße 9 | D-59065 Hamm, Germany
The Gustav-Lübcke-Museum in Hamm/Germany will show how infinite the creative possibilities are in dealing with paper in the upcoming large exhibition Fascination Paper. 30 international and renowned artists of paper art have been selected who have mastered the material paper in a sculptural virtuoso way. These artists work like sculptors, experimenting with unusual techniques and staging the supposedly fragile material in a new way. A 200-page catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
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Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
October 30 - January 22, 2023
Including: Professor Tom Jones
Location: The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, TX
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography highlights the dynamic ways that Indigenous artists have leveraged their lenses over the past three decades to reclaim representation and affirm their existence, perspectives, and trauma. The exhibition, organized by the Carter, is one of the first major museum survey to explore this important transition, featuring works by more than 30 Indigenous artists through approximately 70 photographs, videos, 3-dimensional works, and digital art.
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Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Professor Emerita Eleanor Moty
August 17 - January 28, 2023
Location: Racine Art Museum, 441 Main Street, Racine, WI
The exhibition owes its name to a monograph of the artist's work published in 2020 by Arnoldsche Art Publisher, Stuttgart. Thirty-five works dating from 1966 to 2022 are on display as well as drawings depicting the design development of the artist's jewelry. Professor Emerita Eleanor Moty taught jewelry and metalsmithing in the Art Department from 1972 to 2001.
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BELONGING TO THE LAND
February 25 - February 17, 2023
Location: Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Madison, WI
BELONGING TO THE LAND is a collection of Professor John Hitchcock’s resent works on paper and neon sculpture. 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. His artworks are based on his 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 Ft Sill. Many of the images are interpretations of stories told by his Kiowa/Comanche grandparents and abstract representations influenced by beadwork, land, air, and water.
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Home
July 30 - February 19, 2023
Including: Professor Tom Jones
Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI
Home, a multi-media exhibition, creates conversations around concepts often tied to the sense of home—memory, comfort, loss, displacement, and reclamation. Sometimes described as a state of mind, home occupies both a physical and emotional space. Each artist examines how the concept of home can alternate based on an individual’s perception, simultaneously serving as a site of renewal or rejection, longing or resistance.
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Imprinted in Madison: Artists Making Their Mark
February 25 - February 17, 2023
Artists: Eric Ballies, Chuck Bauer [MA '70], Tyanna Buie [MFA '10], Barry Carlsen [MFA '83], Rachel Durfee [MFA '94], Anwar Floyd Pruitt [MFA '20], Professor John Hitchcock, Barbara Justice [MFA '22], Amos Paul Kennedy, Sara Meredith, Henry Obeng, Merikay Payne [BS-Art '09], Yvette Pino [BFA '11], Benjamin Pollock, and Roberto Torres Mata [MFA '21]
Location: Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Madison, WI
Imprinted in Madison: Artists Making Their Mark features prints by contemporary artists whose paths brought them to or through Madison. UW-Madison has the top printmaking MFA program in the country and the UW's Tandem Press produces fine art editions of prints by internationally renowned artists. As a result of these two outstanding institutions, many emerging and prodigious printmakers come to Madison to study, teach, or produce prints. In that way, Madison subtly affects the artist and in turn the artist impacts our city, creating an influential cultural nexus.
To celebrate the importance of printmaking within our local arts ecology and honor some of the printmakers who have made or are making their mark on Madison, the 2022 Municipal Building Exhibition showcases a wide variety of prints and printmaking processes from internationally exhibited artists and locally celebrated printmakers alike.
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Dark Matter
September 17 - April 2, 2023
Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI
DARK MATTER by British artist and Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah explores cultural representation and self-determination.
DARK MATTER includes a selection of the artist’s most celebrated series, as well as a reconstruction of Garden of Eden (2003), an architectural installation the artist created in collaboration with renowned architect Sir David Adjaye. Exploring issues of privilege, exclusion, and the voyeuristic gaze, this interactive piece separates visitors based on genetic traits—in this case, eye color—in order to undermine our perceptions of difference and alienation. With Garden of Eden, Abdu’Allah points to the privileges conferred to certain people based on the nuances of their genetic matter.
In other works Abdu’Allah uses human hair, a carrier of DNA, and focuses on the ritual of cutting hair. Abdu’Allah is also a trained barber, a profession he has fully integrated into his artistic practice, most notably through his community-based Live Salon performances (2006–present). During each Live Salon session, he provides free haircuts to willing museum visitors and engages them in open-ended conversations about issues surrounding contemporary social identity and representation. In Hair Traits (2016–present), Abdu’Allah uses participants’ actual hair, which he blends into a fine powder to render their portrait on paper. Regarding his use of human hair, he explains, “Essentially, it brings their DNA, their identity, into the work. Our hair carries a trace of who we are, and it is extremely political. In the history of post-colonialism, the straighter your hair was, the higher up on the chain of respect you were.”
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Blu³eprint
February 22 - April 2, 2023
Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State St, Madison, WI
Carved from limestone and measuring almost seven feet in height, Blu³eprint depicts artist Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah seated in a Belmont barber’s chair, a nod to the significance of the barbershop both within his artistic practice and his personal history. For Abdu’Allah, a trained barber, the barbershop reflects the Black experience as a place of physical renewal and social solidarity for generations of men.
Abdu’Allah selected the title to express the communal power associated with the Black salon. The artist made the “u” in “Blu³eprint” to the power of three, to reflect the three “u’s” in the Zulu word “Ubuntu.” Ubuntu is an African concept referring to the interconnected nature of humanity. It communicates the idea that we are human only through the humanity of others, or, “I am because we are.”
Abdu’Allah’s pose may be familiar to some. It mirrors a sculpture that has been an enduring feature of Madison’s public art landscape—Abraham Lincoln (1909), a bronze monument by Adolph Weinman situated atop the University of Wisconsin’s Bascom Hill. In recent years, the monument has generated controversy among some UW students who argue that President Lincoln’s anti-immigrant policies and his belief, despite his opposition to slavery, in white racial superiority means that the monument should be removed.
Abdu’Allah conceived of Blu³eprint as a counter-monument to the Lincoln sculpture—a contemporary work erected as a counterpoint to an existing monument. “My philosophy is that artists have always been the shapers of social consciousness, and for me this piece illustrates that,” Abdu’Allah said.
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Water Memories
June 23 - April 2, 2023
Including: Professor Tom Jones
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
This exhibition explores water’s significance to Indigenous peoples and Nations in the United States through historical, modern, and contemporary artworks. In four thematic sections—Ancestral Connections, Water and Sky, Forests and Streams, and Oceanic Imaginations—diverse aquatic expressions feature both representational and abstract approaches.
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Staring at the Sky by Professor Douglas Rosenberg
2023
Professor Douglas Rosenberg's new book, Staring at the Sky, will be published by Bokförlaget Korpen in 2023, a distinguished publishing house in Gothenburg, Sweden. Bokförlaget Korpen was founded in 1975 with a focus on intellectual publications within the field of art, philosophy, feminism, poetry and contemporary culture. Staring at the Sky collects Rosenberg’s essays on art and culture from his five-year weekly/durational writing project between 2015 and 2020.
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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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Congratulations to 2022-23 Artist-in-Residence at Thurber Park Ash Armenta [MFA '22]
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The Shape of Environment
Artists: Fábio Erdos, Patrizia Ferreira, Hong Huo [MFA '22], Hattie Lee, Lianne Milton [MFA '22], Richie Morales, Beth Racette, Nirmal Raja, Sparker, Roberto Torres Mata [MFA '21], Maria Amalia Wood, Derick Wycherly [MFA '22], and Rina Yoon
Date: Aug 23 - Nov 4
Performance and Closing Reception: Fri, Nov 4, 5-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 South Livingston Street, Suite 100, Madison, WI
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2022 Midwest Video Poetry Fest
Date: October 21 - 22
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 South Livingston Street, Suite 100, Madison, WI
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UW-Madison Fall Career & Internship Virtual Fair
Date: October 25
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Mills Folly Microcinema: Notes on the Hinterland
Date: Wednesday, October 26 @ 7-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 South Livingston Street, Suite 100, Madison, WI
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GLEAM: Art in a New Light
Date: August 31 - October 29
Location: Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 3330 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI
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Charles Munch: Miracles & Mysteries
Date: September 16 - November 6
Show opens online Saturday, September 17 at 10am CDT
In-Person Artist Talk: Saturday, October 1, 2pm
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI
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