Nov 27, 2019 | News
It’s always a surprise to see whom the MacArthur Foundation selects to receive its annual fellowships — the six-figure awards known as Genius Grants — but one of this year’s picks was particularly exhilarating: comic artist [and Professor of...
Nov 25, 2019 | News
Moving from one section to another in artist Dakota Mace’s show Nihá (For Us), up through December 21 at Arts + Literature Laboratory, requires viewers to change how they’re looking and what they’re looking for. That is in part because Mace uses a...
Nov 22, 2019 | News
When word came this fall that she was receiving an honor worth $625,000, Lynda Barry knew what she would do with it: spend money on artists at their most pure — those who had only recently stopped wearing diapers. Barry, the indie comics creator turned cutting-edge...
Nov 19, 2019 | News
Paulina Eguino is a third year art major concentrating in neon and cartoon art, and is one of only two students at the University of Wisconsin with neon as one of the concentrations for their major. Though she didn’t start working with neon until college, her work has...
Nov 11, 2019 | News
Two years ago, Bird Ross [MFA ’92] and Brenda Baker [MFA ’90] came up with the idea for an art prize to support Dane County’s professional female artists. Gender disparities in the art world are stark. Only 30% of artists represented in commercial...
Nov 10, 2019 | News
It was an art show two years ago that first sparked an idea for Madison artists Bird Ross [MFA ’92] and Brenda Baker [MFA ’90]. And then another idea. And another. The culmination of that chain of sparks came Friday night with the announcement of the two...
