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....
Oct 26, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
The rhizome is altogether different, a map and not a tracing. Make a map, not a tracing. The orchid does not reproduce the tracing of the wasp; it forms a map with the wasp, in a rhizome. Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Art is rhizomatic. That is a statement...
Oct 19, 2015 | Essay, From the Chair
Since I have been writing these notes to you, a couple things have happened that I want to share here. One unexpected pleasure is that you have been writing back. I have received a number of notes from people who are reading these posts that include words of...
