Tuesday, February 14
Professor Taekyeom Lee

Taekyeom Lee is an educator, multidisciplinary designer, and maker. His research explores unconventional materials and alternative solutions to create tangible typography, graphics, and even designed objects using digital fabrication. He infused 3D printing into his research and has been experimenting with various methods and materials. His artwork has gone viral on social media and drew attention nationally and internationally. He presented through national and international conferences, and various media have featured his work. He actively exhibited his work and provided workshops and lectures across the country and abroad.

Visiting Artist Yuri Kobayashi
Guest Lecture in the Wood Area
Monday, February 13 @ 5pm

Location: Room 7251 Humanities Building, 7th Floor, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI

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.

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.”

Bleeder: an MFA Qualifier by Jana Marie Cariddi
February 12 - 19

Closing Reception: Friday, February 17, 6-8pm

Location: Art Lofts Gallery, 111 North Frances St, Madison, WI

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

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

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

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.