Bright Ideas 2018: Build an art gallery for kids by Professor Faisal Abdu’Allah
For the fifth year, Cap Times reporters asked several Madisonians to share their “bright ideas” for the new year. We will publish the 2018 edition of Bright Ideas throughout the next week. I want somebody to sponsor a building that has a gallery space for...
Schachter enlarges familiar boundaries in book on contemporary Jewish art by Adam Reinherz
Ben Schachter is in many ways a “kosher cartographer.” As a Jewish artist widely known for his depictions of eruv maps, Schachter’s paper projects depict boundaries stitched in blue thread with the remaining portions painted with acrylic. Functionally, Schachter’s...
Gerit Grimm turns ceramic figures into storytellers by Diane M. Bacha
Most of us know figurines as ornamental trinkets. They’re diminutive, breakable, and invariably sentimental. Modern-day iterations are often angels and fairies, rosy-cheeked children and big-skirted princesses. I’ve never been a figurine collector, but I’ve been...