Past Events Category: Public Lecture

Sarah Scaturro
Nancy Nicholas Hall | Rm. 2235 | 1300 Linden Dr. Madison, WI
February 22, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
https://cdmc.wisc.edu/event/ruth-ketterer-harris-lecture-2024/

Since 1990, the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection has proudly sponsored the annual Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture series in honor of Ruth Ketterer Harris, the collection’s first curator. We are thrilled to share Sarah Scaturro, Eric and Jane Nord …

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L160
February 21, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/6125776316#success

Donté K. Hayes’ artwork is informed by researching traditional African heirlooms and initiation rites of birth, adulthood, marriage, eldership, and ancestry which are essential to all human growth and speaks to the greater African diaspora. …

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L140
February 20, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/193217

How does one visually portray a sublime truth or numinous reality that, by definition, is said to transcend the senses? How can one give form to the formless without subverting its character? This problem was …

Chazen Museum of Art
February 18, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-tour-chazen-highlights-tickets-785349761277?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR0YfjPWnpL9jNyLSsJZkjbzyFxfcUyr3jemH3ieZo8K_3yoE_oWpf7A-lQ

Sunday tours have returned to the Chazen! Stop by the front desk and meet a museum guide who will lead you on a guided tour of collection highlights and visitor favorites. Tours last up to …

Arts + Literature Laboratory | 111 S. Livingston St. #100, Madison, WI
February 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
https://artlitlab.org/events/february-watershed-reading-1

Join us on Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM for our February Watershed Reading featuring Erika Meitner, Maya Pindyck, and Taymour Soomro. Meitner will be reading poetry. Pindyck will be reading from Impossible Belonging …

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, L160
February 14, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
https://go.wisc.edu/uw-art-talks

Mariah Moneda is an interdisciplinary artist and educator utilizing elements of visual media, sculpture, and performance to investigate the connection between memory and the body’s senses to explore the ontology of food culture and its …

Professor Preeti Chopra
Online
February 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-indian-engineer-and-the-construction-of-victorian-bombay-tickets-739561397047?aff=Website

Enviable Reputation: An Indian Engineer and the Construction of Victorian Bombay Tuesday, February, 13th, 2024 |  1:00–2:30pm CT | £6 | Register here In most architectural histories of Bombay, native engineers are either ignored or …

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | 211 State St. Madison, WI
February 11, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://www.mmoca.org/events/chasing-the-stars/

Erika Blumenfeld’s Tracing Luminaries series takes inspiration from the “Harvard Computers,” a group of women in the late 1800s who were prevented from participating in traditional academia. Through their study and cataloging of thousands of stars and …

Chazen Museum of Art
February 11, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sunday-tour-chazen-highlights-tickets-785347885667?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwAR1HUcRxr4ugX6Ivd5YHrY7OAyWcuGxEKeBZXb3feBSvZgKUVpYOfdNyXy8

Sunday tours have returned to the Chazen! Stop by the front desk and meet a museum guide who will lead you on a guided tour of collection highlights and visitor favorites. Tours last up to …

Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art | 211 State St. Madison, WI
February 10, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
https://www.mmoca.org/events/gilliambeyond/?fbclid=IwAR24-gYx8M50QyatA0bLa05jW3vOegsBkcg9UaNrBz4bHqwCeYDwMWCs8Cw

Scholar and artist Dr. Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis will explore how select Black artists from the American South turned towards abstraction in the post-World War II era, centering on Sam Gilliam’s work and artistic processes, …