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Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Art Department,
Welcome back and Happy New Year.
This is our first newsletter of Spring semester 2023.
We have a few things to announce at the beginning of the semester. This Spring the Art Department will be hosting two lecture series, the regular Visiting Artist Wednesday evening Colloquium class will be complemented with a Tuesday evening  Art Faculty Colloquium. They will both be supported with Zoom/remote viewing options. Please see attached calendars or follow us here every week for the schedule. We want to thank in advance all those who are presenting and everyone that is working on this behind the scenes to facilitate this great programming.
The Art Faculty Colloquium for this Tuesday features Professor Anna Campbell whose sculptures, installations, and ephemera mine history and queer desire. Join us for the Spring Semester Colloquium Art Faculty Lecture online or in person in room L160 in the Elvehjem Building. The Visiting Artist Colloquium will begin next week on February 1st.
When people ask me what looking forward to with Spring semester my first answer is always the exhibitions. This Spring Art will host a number of 2nd year Master of Fine Arts Qualifier shows and MFA Thesis exhibitions. These shows are well worth your time to stop by and see in the galleries in Humanities and Art Lofts each week. If you are on campus please come visit.
We want to briefly recognize, with gratitude, three Art Department people who are moving on to new opportunities—both Art Department Facilities Manager Josh Wampole and Lindsey Honeyager in the School of Education Dean’s Office are moving into new positions here on campus at UW-Madison and Art Department Technician Ian Schmidt is relocating overseas with family.
Emeritus Art Professor Thomas Loeser checked in with us over break to announce a public talk he will be giving soon at the Goodman Community Center. The talk is evocatively titled (Dis)function: Opportunities and Challenges of Everyday Objects and will be Monday February 13th from 6-8pm.
We want to just take a moment to thank all of you for rejoining us in this space every week and following what we are working on here in Art. We look forward to sharing the news of the Art Department this coming semester.
Thanks.
Chair Derrick Buisch
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UW/ART
IN THE NEWS
Historic neon sign on State Street gets makeover, drips and all by Barry Adams, Wisconsin State Journal, January 6, 2023.
Students recognize nine School of Education educators as ‘Honored Instructors’, UW-Madison School of Education News, January 5, 2023.
Sculpting with Paper, OnWisconsin, January 5, 2023.
UW–Madison artists are recognized for typographic designs, UW-Madison School of Education News, December 29, 2022.
UW–Madison’s Scheer is featured on WORT’s ‘The 8 O’Clock Buzz’, UW-Madison School of Education News, December 21, 2022.
Wisconsin Alumni Association spotlights Art Professor Tom Jones, UW-Madison School of Education News, December 20, 2022.
UW Art Department helps shoppers get last minute gifts, Channel 3000, December 18, 2022.
Artist's roots in Trinidad bring vibrancy to paintings of humanity’s shared experiences by Melissa Perry, Wisconsin State Journal, December 17, 2022.
Meet the Woman Making Wisconsin Buildings Brighter One Mural at a Time by Christina Lorey, Up North News, December 16, 2022.
Meet some of the School of Education’s outstanding Winter 2022 graduates, UW-Madison School of Education News, December 13, 2022.
UW–Madison glass artists are featured in Delaware exhibition, UW-Madison School of Education News, December 6, 2022.
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department is hiring! Apply now for our Full Time Facilities Technician Staff Position!
We are seeking a candidate with extensive training and/or experience in inspecting, maintaining, and repairing specialized equipment and facilities. This position services and maintains classrooms, works with campus partners on facility and equipment operations and repairs. This position assists all areas within the Art Department and insures the equipment and facilities in the department are safe and operational. The Art Department's inventory includes furnaces, kilns, foundry and other mechanical and electrical devices that require repair and preventative maintenance. This position is responsible for the handling of solvents, specialized chemicals for print and photo processes and their disposal. Additionally, this position is the building manager for the instructional, research and general spaces at the UW Art Lofts and the area occupied by the Art Department in the Humanities Building and maintains safety and fire protocols, member of the safety committee for the Art Department. Must have ability to work both independently and in a team environment. Strong commitment to health and safety issues in the Arts is required.
Applications close February 8, 2023, 11:55pm.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Department
Spring 2023 Colloquium:
Art Faculty
Tuesdays @ 5 - 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
Attend weekly lectures by the artists and members of the faculty in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! See how they make their work, what inspires them, and learn how to sustain a professional art career.
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Visiting Artists
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. Faculty lectures are held every Tuesday and Visiting Artist lectures are held every Wednesday during the academic year, and are free and open to the public.
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Anna Campbell’s sculptures, installations, and ephemera mine history and queer desire. Campbell’s solo exhibits include Etiquette Kit, 2015 at BOSI Contemporary, and Dress Rehearsal for a Dream Sequence, 2022 at Participant, Inc, both in New York. Campbell’s work is featured in Queer Holdings: A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Collection (Hirmer, 2019) as well as in Hip openers: on the visuals of gendering athleticism by Erica Rand, published in Queer Difficulties in Verse and Visual Culture (Routledge, 2017.) Campbell’s book Ever Your Friend is in the MoMA Library, and the site-specific, bronze sculpture Archivist Fingers is permanently installed at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn.
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Mycological Menagerie Art Gallery
February 3 - May 14
Location: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI
The Mycological Menagerie Gallery features both local Madison artists and global artists, all connected by artwork which features or focuses on Fungi. The artworks featured in this gallery vary, including: paintings, photography, fiber art, wood burned pieces, poetry, digital artwork, and mixed media artworks. This gallery fuses science and art to highlight the beauty of Fungi while sharing basic biology information about this misunderstood Kingdom.
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Future Body: MA Qualifier Exhibition by Lauren Aria
January 22 - 29
Reception: Friday, January 27, 5-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
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Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam (The World Is One Family): Master of Fine Arts These Exhibition by Praveen Maripelly
February 6 - 10
Reception: Friday, February 10th, 6-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
This is Praveen Maripelly. I am happy to announce my MFA Thesis Exhibition Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam (The World Is One Family) and Social Performances at different venues within UW-Madison. I am showing documentation, videos, images, books, and installation at Art Lofts Gallery from 6 to 10 Feb 2023 @ 10am to 6pm. I am also showing a documentary of my high-altitude performances (6-6:30pm) during the Reception on 10 Feb 2023 from 6-8pm. My MFA Exhibition is supported by the Division of Arts, UW-Madison.
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Social Creativity
Monday, February 6 @ 5:30-7pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 N Frances St, Madison, WI
Participants allowed: 10 max
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Gift Sharing
Tuesday, February 7 @ 6-7pm
Location: Discovery Building, Room 1145, Curiosity Corridor, 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI
Participants allowed: 12 (6 pairs—any 2 people)
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Chai Stories 2.0
Wednesday, February 8 @ 5:30-6:30pm
Location: Discovery Building, Room 1145, Curiosity Corridor,330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI
Participants allowed: 10-15 per performance
Chai Ingredients: Oat Milk, Organic Spices (No Caffeine), Sugar (Optional)
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Natural Food Plate Making
Thursday, February 9 @ 6-7pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
Participants allowed: 10 max
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Cycles of Rebirth Exhibition by Brianna Stehling Santa Cruz
January 22 - 29
Location: Gallery 7, Humanities Building 7th Floor, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI
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FACULTY & STAFF EVENTS & RESEARCH
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Quiet Elegance: The Jewelry of Professor Emerita Eleanor Moty
August 17 - January 28
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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(Dis)function: Opportunities and Challenges of Everyday Objects Humanities in Community Presentation by Professor Emeritus Tom Loeser
Monday, February 13 @ 6-8pm
Location: Goodman Community Center, 214 Waubesa St, Madison, WI
Why are some functional objects intriguing and appealing, and others perplexing? Might the confounding quality serve a constructive purpose? Tom Loeser will highlight some of his local public art projects and discuss how furniture, especially seating, plays a role in social interaction and building community. This image-intensive presentation will be an overview of Loeser's creative practice making furniture and other mostly functional objects.
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BELONGING TO THE LAND
February 25 - February 17
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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Imprinted in Madison: Artists Making Their Mark
February 25 - February 17
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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Home
July 30 - February 19
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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Dark Matter
September 17 - April 2
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
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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Refracting Histories
November 10 — April 2
Location: Museum of Contemporary Photography 600 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL
Refracting Histories features artists who are critically looking at art historical canons, using the malleable nature of image making to reinterpret and expand upon narrow pedagogies in the field of photography. Participating artists include: Kelli Connell + Natalie Krick, Nona Faustine, Professor Tom Jones, Colleen Keihm, Tarrah Krajnak, Sonja Thomsen, and Aaron Turner.
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Water Memories
June 23 - April 2
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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Middle of Nowhere: Group Show
Artists: Richard Jones, Trina May Smith [MFA '12], Charles Munch, Dennis Nechvatal, Ken Oppriecht, Mike Rebholz, John Ribble, Barry Roal Carlsen [MFA '83], Adam Stoner, and Jonathan Wilde
Date: Jan 13 - Feb 26
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI
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Diane Washa: Steadfast
Date: January 13 - February 26
In-Person Artist Talk: Saturday, January 28, 2pm
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI
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In no. 5: Cultural Connections Club Express Kids: Safe Spaces
Date: January 13 - February 26
In-Person Artist Talk, Pat Dillion with Art Express Club: Saturday, February 4, 2pm
Location: Abel Contemporary Gallery, 524 East Main St, Stoughton, WI
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Midsummer Festival of the Arts 2023 Call for Artists
Deadline: March 1
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Angela U. Drakeford: In bloom at the end of the world
Date: November 12 - April 16
Location: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI
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