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Dear Friends and Colleagues of the Art Department,
 It is with our deepest compassion that we recognize the passing of Chancellor Emerita Rebecca M. Blank. Chancellor Blank was here at UW-Madison at a very transformational moment for campus, the School of Education, and the Art Department. A memorial service and campus remembrance are being planned—more information and tributes will be added to the campus webpage dedicated to Blank’s memory.
This part of the semester is busy with lots of exhibitions—congratulations to all the graduate students who are currently hosting their MFA Qualifier exhibitions. After Spring Break, the Art Department galleries will begin hosting the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts Thesis exhibitions, presenting the culmination of our three-year degree program that emphasizes development of a rigorous studio art practice under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee. If you are on campus please stop in and see the exhibitions in the 7th floor of Humanities and the two exhibition spaces in Art Lofts.
 Congratulations to Art Department Graphic Design Lecturer, Henrique Nardi, who is newly elected to the Board of Directors of ATypl, the International Typography Association, for a three-year term. Founded in 1957, ATypI is an international non-profit organization dedicated to preserving, debating, and promoting typography and type design. In 2015, Nardi served as chair/member of the organizing committee of ATypI’s annual conference in São Paulo, Brazil. This year ATypI’s main event will happen in Paris, France, in May.
 The Art Faculty Colloquium for this Tuesday is Professor Christina West, an artist whose practice is rooted in politics of the gaze, using sculpture, video, and photography to focus on the male body. Her works attempt to move beyond a simple reversal of the objectifying male gaze, conveying a mixture of desire, curiosity, and empathy, while complicating and questioning stereotypical notions about masculinity and femininity.
 The Wednesday Visiting Artist Colloquium will feature Alex Braidwood, a sound artist, designer, and educator maintaining a practice exploring issues of sustainability at the intersection of art and science.
Join us for the Spring Semester Colloquium Art Faculty Lecture on Tuesdays and the Visiting Artist Colloquiums on Wednesdays from 5 to 6:15pm online on Zoom or in person in room L160 in the Elvehjem Building. These lectures are free and open to the public.
Thanks again for following us in this space every week. We appreciate the opportunity to share what we are working on here in Art at this busy time of the semester.
Chair Derrick Buisch
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UW/ART
IN THE NEWS
School of Education announces 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award winners, UW-Madison School of Education News, February 6, 2023.
Kel Mur: Converge at Pyle Center by Hannah Keziah Agustin, Tone Madison, February 1, 2023.
Wisconsin State Journal spotlights ‘Prince Hall’ series by UW–Madison’s Abdu’Allah, UW-Madison School of Education News, February 1, 2023.
UW–Madison’s Hitchcock speaks about art, Native heritage in Q&A for Capital Times, UW-Madison School of Education News, January 31, 2023.
Who are the Prince Hall Masons? Exhibit shines a light on their work by Melissa Perry, Wisconsin State Journal, January 23, 2023.
Madison artist John Hitchcock honors Native roots in prints and neon by Lindsey Christians, The Cap Times, January 22, 2023.
New exhibition celebrates Emerging Artists and the Future of Wisconsin Art at MOWA by Jennifer Turner, Washington County Insider, January 18, 2023.
UW–Madison alumnus Chihuly continues to captivate the world through glass art by Sofie Schachter, UW-Madison School of Education News, January 12, 2023.
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.
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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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Tuesday, February 21
Professor Christina West
Christina A. West is an artist whose practice is rooted in politics of the gaze, using sculpture, video, and photography to focus on the male body. Her works attempt to move beyond a simple reversal of the objectifying male gaze, conveying a mixture of desire, curiosity, and empathy, while complicating and questioning stereotypical notions about masculinity and femininity. She has extensively exhibited her work across the country in venues such as the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo), and Atlanta Contemporary. Her work has been supported by residencies at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Clay Studio of Philadelphia among others.
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Wednesday, February 22
Alex Braidwood
Alex Braidwood is a sound artist, designer, and educator maintaining a practice exploring issues of sustainability at the intersection of art and science. He has lectured, exhibited, and performed around the world and has been an artist in residence in places like an Australian mountain village, a mid-western field research station, and on Isle Royale National Park. Alex is Director of Artist-in-Residence at Iowa Lakeside Lab, Director of Graphic Design Graduate Education at Iowa State University, Artistic Director at Group Creatives, a board member of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE), the MSAE representative for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and President of the World Listening Project.
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Congratulations to the Art recipients of the UW-Madison Division of the Arts 2023 Awards in the Creative Arts!
- Creative Arts Award
Douglas Rosenberg, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Art, Project title: “The Sea”
- Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts
Helen Lee, Associate Professor, Project title: “Present Tense: A Decade of UW Glass”
- Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts
Spatula&Barcode: Laurie Beth Clark, Professor and Michael Peterson, Professor
- Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award
Michael Velliquette, Assistant Professor of Art Foundations, Project title: “Embodied Looking // Embodied Making”
- Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
Matthew Francis Ludak, MFA student
- Graduate Student Creative Arts Award
Sophie Loubere, MFA student, Project title: “Trespasses”
Praveen Maripelly, MFA student, Project title: “Vasudaiva Kutumbhakam”
Skyler Simpson, MFA student, Project title: “Dream House”
Anamika Singh, MFA student, Project title: “FIRE ON THE WATER”
- Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Award
Maile Evelyn Llanos, Undergraduate, Project title: Plants of Wisconsin
Maia Therese Rauh, Undergraduate, Textiles and Fashion Design with a Certificate in Studio Art, Project title: Exploring Structural Weavings Using Elastic Yarns
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Calling all student entrepreneurs!
The 2023 Arts Business Competition is accepting proposals through Monday, March 6, until 5pm CST. Three finalists will win a first prize of $2,000, a second prize of $1,000, and a third prize of $500 to produce an arts event, exhibition, performance series, commercial venture, or other artistic project.
The UW–Madison Arts Business Competition is a campus-wide contest created to encourage innovative thinking in the arts. Proposals should demonstrate creativity, innovation, added value to the arts, and potential for success.
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WUD 95th Annual Student Art Show
February 10 - March 24
Location: Memorial Union, Main Gallery and Class of 1925 Gallery, 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI
This year's Student Art Show is curated by UW faculty member and artist Adriana Barrios. WUD Art's longest-standing tradition highlights the work of student artists and makers for the larger campus community. Join us in celebrating the students' work by visiting the galleries during the Union's building hours.
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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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Art Department Graphic Design Certificate student CJ Wilkerson creates community through entrepreneurship
When he was in seventh grade, he sold candy. Later, he leased out his shoes to friends—with an insurance policy, so if the shoes came back in less-than-satisfactory shape, his friends would have to pay up. Next came a shoe cleaning business. Years later, in his second year at the Wisconsin School of Business, CJ is running two successful businesses: a barbershop out of his house and a streetwear apparel brand called Croesus.
CJ began cutting hair when he was 16 as a way to prove to his family—and himself—that he could be successful in life even if he followed a less traditional path. He started the barbershop at his school with the help of a teacher, cutting the hair of his friends and classmates. With time, however, CJ wanted to have his “own thing” while continuing to build community through business. That’s when he decided to launch Croesus—which means “rich king.”
“The idea behind Croesus is being able to grow, to become richer than a king, but not rich in the sense of just money or materialistic things,” CJ explains. “Rich of the soul, of character.”
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the rehearsal: An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Christian Birk
February 20 - 25
Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6-8pm
Location: Gallery 7, Humanities Building 7th Floor, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI
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Loveseat: A narrative ceramive exhibition by Beth Thelke
February 20 - 25
Reception: Friday, February 24, 5-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
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Roadtrip Mixtape: an MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Kate F.
February 20 - 25
Closing Reception: Friday, February 24, 5-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
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this moment of june: blue epistles from the middle
An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Caitlin Mary Margarett
Wednesday, March 1 @ 7-9pm
Location: Backspace Gallery, Art Lofts, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
For adults only, contains explicit content.
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Condition Report: An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Devon Stackonis
February 27 - March 4
Closing Reception: Friday, March 3, 6-8pm
Location: Gallery 7, Humanities Building 7th Floor, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI
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What's Left Behind: An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by David Love
February 27 - March 4
Reception: Friday, March 3, 6-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
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The Last Resort: An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Matthew Ludak
February 26 - March 6
Reception: Friday, March 3, 6-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
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Eavesdropping: An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Skyler Simpson
March 6 - 11
Reception: Friday, March 10, 6-8pm
Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
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Lost to Memory: An MFA Qualifier Exhibition by Carolyn Spears
March 5 - 12
Reception: Friday, March 10, 6-8pm
Location: Backspace Gallery, Art Lofts, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
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The Onlooker: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition by Natalie Lambert
March 29 @ 6-8pm
Location: Backspace Gallery, Art Lofts, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI
This is an 18+ only event.
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Squiggly on the Inside: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition by Teresa Audet
March 17 - April 17
Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, March 24, 6-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S Livingston St, Madison, WI
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FACULTY & STAFF EVENTS & RESEARCH
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Congratulations to the new 2023 ATypl Board Member Graphic Design Lecturer Henrique Nardi
The Association Typographique Internationale is a nonprofit global forun for type and typography. The organization is democratically run by a board of directors elected by the ATypI membership. Board members hail from all over the world and use their time and talents to help further the ATypI mission and elevate their communities.
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Blanket Songs
January 27 - March 4
Location: Indiana University, Grunwald Gallery, Fine Arts Building, 1201 E Seventh St, Bloomington, IN
Blanket Songs is a multi-media installation and performance by artist and composer Professor John Hitchcock. The artist examines, combines, and reinterprets traditional narratives of the American frontier and indigenous stories to tell the story of “The West.” The installation features neon sculptures, video, prints, fabric works, and objects.
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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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Vignettes: Concentrated Views of RAM’s Collection
February 1 - August 19
Artists: Robert Arneson, Aaron Bohrod, Wendell Castle, Sue Coe, Warrington Colescott, Dorothy Dehner, Richard Diebenkorn, Jan Huling, Professor Emeritus Truman Lowe, Terence Main, Wendy Maruyama, Binh Pho, Joyce J. Scott, Robert Stackhouse, Lino Tagliapietra, Professor Michael Velliquette, and Mary Alice Wimmer [MFA '64], among others
Location: Racine Art Museum, 441 Main St, Racine, WI
Vignettes is comprised of several smaller exhibitions of works gathered under various organizing principles or themes—emphasizing specific characteristics of the individual pieces and overall groupings. These groupings are inspired by RAM’s history or collection in different ways.
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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 UW-Madison School of Education 2023 Distinguished Alumni of Art Award winner Patricia Norby [MFA '02]
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Converge: Studies in Cohabitation
Artist: Kel Mur [MFA '20]
Date: Feb 1 - 23
Location: The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St, Madison, WI
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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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Ten at Ten
Artists: Claire Kellesvig [MFA '22], Nykoli Koslow, Meg Lionel Murphy, Guzzo Pinc [MFA '20], Pranav Sood [MFA '20], Brennen Steines, Gabrielle Tesfaye, Johanna Winters, Lindsey T. Yeager, and Eduardo Zavala
Date: Jan 28 - Apr 9
Location: MOWA, West Bend, 205 Veterans Ave, West Bend, WI
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Solarpunk Futures Game
Artist: Solarpunk Surf Club [MFA '20]
Date: Fri, Mar 10, 7-8:30pm
Location: Overture Center for the Arts, Rotunda Studio, 210 State St. Madison, WI
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Mills Folly Microcinema: All Told: Films by Paige Taul
Date: Wednesday, February 22, 7-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, WI
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Diane Washa: Steadfast
Date: January 13 - February 26
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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The Black Women’s Affinity Group Presents: Protecting The Black Woman - 2nd Annual Dzigbodi Akyea Art Exhibit
Date: February 2 - 29
Location: Madison College, Gallery at Truax, 1701 Wright St. A1005, Madison, WI
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Midsummer Festival of the Arts 2023 Call for Artists
Deadline: March 1
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Mills Folly Microcinema: Project Projection: Local Film and Video
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 7-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, WI
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Mills Folly Microcinema: Live Cinema Live Music
Artists: Aaron Granat, Dale Kaminsky, Tim Russell, Liz Seze, and Shawn Pierce
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 7-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, WI
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Sharp Points by Carey Watters
Date: February 11 - April 8
Location: OS Projects, 601 6th Street, Racine, WI
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Terra Femme with Courtney Stephens In Person
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 7-9pm
Location: Arts + Literature Laboratory, 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, WI
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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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