Dec 1, 2019 | News
Though none of the crew knew whether or not Goliath was going to come back for a third season, five scripts had been written and a warehouse in Santa Clarita rented, ready for production to begin. I walked into the empty building, hired before the show had officially...
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 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...
Nov 3, 2019 | News
Artist Jayne Reid Jackson [BS-Art ’77] could be working on a piece for weeks before she knows exactly what it looks like. Jackson is a practiced hand at mezzotint, a centuries-old printing process, but it still surprises her all the time. “The plate can fool you...