Nov 30, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
Opening the Sunday New York Times this weekend, I was struck by the front-page article with the following title, “The March into the Museum, Black Artists, Long Neglected, Join and Expanding Canon.” As the article resonated with the lecture that I was already planning...
Nov 23, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
As the 21st century progresses, the narrative that we are telling in our teaching and mentoring gets more crowded. Movements come and go more quickly, the politics of the era become increasingly more complex, information flows more quickly (there is simply more of it)...
Nov 17, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
In the aftermath of the attacks in Paris, I began to ponder how such global catastrophes influence the way we think about art. It occurs to me that movements in art have, since the earliest days of Modernism, reacted to such crises with manifestos, objects, ephemera...
Nov 9, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
Over the weekend, four of our graduate students presented their work to a very appreciative group of residents at the Capitol Lakes Retirement Community in Madison. Erica Herrera, Jessica Merchant, Matthew Mauk and Leigh Garcia each explained their process, their...
Nov 2, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
I have been working on the catalog essay for the upcoming Faculty Exhibition at the Chazen Museum, which opens in January 2016. It is an exhibition that happens every four years and gives the public an opportunity to see the extraordinary work of the UW Art faculty....
