October 2021
UW-Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Cat Balco
Once an observational painter of cityscapes, Cat Balco makes singular, boldly brushed abstraction paintings with push or hand brooms of varying sizes, never smaller than 12” across. The brooms are significant because they are laborers’…
Find out more »UW–Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Art Faculty Colloquium: Prof. Meg Mitchell
Multimedia installation artist Professor Meg Mitchell creates immersive and enigmatic environments which inspire thoughtful dialogs. Mitchell’s work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions, at venues such as the Atlantic Center for the…
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UW-Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Janet Dees
Janet Dees is an American curator who is the Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art. She is also an art historian…
Find out more »UW–Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Art Faculty Colloquium: Prof. Tom Jones
Professor Tom Jones’ artwork is a commentary on American Indian identity, experience and perception. He examines how American Indian culture is represented through popular culture and raises questions about these depictions of identity by non-natives…
Find out more »UW–Madison Art Dept. | Annual Open Studio Day 2021
Locations: Humanities Building, 6th and 7th Floors, 455 N Park St Art Lofts, 111 N Frances St Madison, WI Over 50 artist studios will be open at this annual autumn arts celebration event! Meet the…
Find out more »UW-Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Eli Reed
Eli Reed is a documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos who has a strong interest in social justice and the effects of war on society. In 1970, he began his freelance career—his work…
Find out more »UW–Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Art Faculty Colloquium: Prof. Helen Lee
As an artist, designer, and educator, Professor Helen Lee examines the morphological nature of language through a material-specific practice. She is interested in how language inherently changes—over time, across cultures, and in physical form. She…
Find out more »UW-Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Diana Guerrero-Maciá
Diana Guerrero-Maciá is an artist working in the expanded fields of painting and textiles. She values craft, consciousness, sustainability, and material metaphor. Her studio practice, spanning over twenty-five years, includes slow-craft processes in painting, textiles,…
Find out more »UW–Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Art Faculty Colloquium: Prof. Gerit Grimm
Born and raised in Halle of the German Democratic Republic, Professor Gerit Grimm celebrates the rich history of the ceramic figurine in traditional art. Fairy tales, myths and fables dominate her wheel thrown sculpture as…
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UW–Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Art Faculty Colloquium: Prof. Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. Barry is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip that was…
Find out more »UW-Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Colloquium: UW–Madison MFA Candidates
Our graduate students earning their Masters degrees will present their interdisciplinary work to the public. Explore their body of art, three-years in the making through the development of a rigorous studio art practice under the…
Find out more »UW–Madison Art Dept. | Fall 2021 Art Faculty Colloquium: Profs. Michael Peterson & Laurie Beth Clark–Spatula&Barcode
Professors Michael Peterson and Laurie Beth Clark work together under the collaborative identity of Spatula&Barcode. Spatula&Barcode is a “social practice art” group that combines many activities in their projects: interviews and interactions, social media, photography,…
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