Feb 22, 2018 | News
Visual art is rarely an active medium; works sit on pedestals or hang on walls to be observed, not witnessed. Creation so often happens in the studio, away from the prying eyes of the public. Such is not the case, however, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Great...
Feb 21, 2018 | News
Faisal Abdu’Allah, a UW-Madison associate professor of art and Creative Arts Community faculty director, spoke Tuesday night about the representation of transformation, identity and racial issues in his artwork. Abdu’Allah showed the audience at Gordon Commons...
Feb 20, 2018 | News
It all started with a single poster. Local artist, and now curator, Peter Kursel [MFA ’87], was attending a party in the Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee when he noticed a World War II propaganda poster hanging on the wall—it belonged to his son’s roommate....
Feb 19, 2018 | News
When the James Watrous Gallery asked a group of local artists, architects and other thinkers to come up with a vision for Madison 75 years from now, one theme came to mind for many of them: The lakes. Those bodies of water – including Mendota, Monona and Wingra – and...
Feb 19, 2018 | News
Artists have been using perspective, shading and occlusion to represent three dimensions in two-dimensional artwork for a long time. Now that scientists are able to develop a deeper knowledge of human perception, some artists are incorporating the new information into...
Feb 15, 2018 | News
From the day Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald were announced as the artists charged with painting former President Barack Obama and First lady Michelle Obama, Leslie Smith III waited in suspense for the reveal. “I was both surprised and amazed with the finished...
