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Works on Paper, Willow Hagge
MFA candidate Willow Hagge presents this art exhibit.
Main floor alcove, Wendt Library
Contact: 265-9217, glorioso@engr.wisc.edu
April 25 - May 1
Master
of Arts Exhibit by Nathan Thomas Vernau
The Project Lodge
817 E. Johnson St.
Madison, WI 53703
April 28 -
MA Exhibition by Brandon Norsted: Cribbing
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Common Wealth Gallery, 100 South Baldwin Street, Madison, WI
This exhibit is concerned with places of congregation in the home
and how they are mythologized. The exhibit will also feature bread
baked by Brooke Norsted.
Contact: 262-1662, hbnguyen@education.wisc.edu
May 2- May 14
MFA
Exhibtion by Katelyn Alain: Discovering Delirium
Class of 1925 Gallery, Memorial Union
During Gallery Night, be sure to head to the Memorial Union Galleries
to view Alain's paintings, which fuse highly rendered details with
an expressive and painterly looseness that suggests a psychological
landscape.
May 2 - May 14
MFA
Exhibition by Jon Fowler: Elemental Drama
Class of 1925 Gallery, Memorial Union
Graduate Student Jon Fowler's MFA Exhibition, "Elemental Drama,"
focuses on his paintings exploring the play between representation
and abstraction to express a sense of change or movement throughout
the surface of the canvas.
May 9 - May 16
MA
Exhibition by Dennis Peterson: Replacement
7th Floor Hallway, Mosse Humanities Building
This exhibition is a retrospective of works by Peterson that utilize
the strange and wonderful hallway space of the Mosse Humanities
Building as a backdrop.
May 8 - May 11
Chazen Museum Shop Member Appreciation Sale.
9:00 - 5:00
Tuesdays, 7:00-8:00pm, Check TITU in
Memorial Union
WUD Art
Committee Meeting. Contact 262-7592, wilmot@wisc.edu
Sunday, April
27, 12:30-2:00pm, Brittingham Gallery III
Sunday Afternoon
Live from the Chazen. Anthony Padilla, piano.
Monday, April 28, 5:30pm, L140 Chazen
Museum of Art
Lecture. "Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: From the
Synagogue to the Carousel, From the Sacred to the Secular."
Murray Zimiles, SUNY Purchase, will discuss the migration of East
European Jewish artisans and their woodcarving practices to the
United States, comparing rare photographs of Eastern European synagogues
with carousel horses produced in the New York area to show how artistic
traditions were transformed and secularized.
Tuesday, April 29, 5:45-6:30pm, 204
Educational Sciences
Art
Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Tom Joyce. Joyce
will discuss his work, which encompasses architectural commissions,
sculptural investigations and cultural explorations, particularly
in Africa where the work of the metalsmith is still deemed indispensable.
He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Wednesday, April 30, 5:00pm, Wisconsin
Historical Society
Twin Muses:
Ethnography and Fiction. Ethnography finds its identity in uneasy
relationship to other practices of describing the world through
writing. From as early as 1890, certain ethnographers have found
some insights best expressed through fiction. Today, the practice
of ethnography has spread across many disciplines, and the cultural
perspectives gleaned through ethnography continue to occasionally
spill into fiction. Narayan explores the work of anthropologists
who have openly moved between ethnography and fiction.
Thursday, May 1, 12:00pm-4:00pm, Ebling
Library, Health Sciences Learning Center
The
Moment: Captured in Danish Paper Cutting, Watercolor and Photography.
Meet Cynthia McKeen at the opening reception. McKeen's intricate
paper cuts of nature scenes, whimsical animals, Christmas trees
and mobiles will amaze as well as delight. The installation also
displays the die cutting tools used in creating these works. Cyndy's
photographs taken in Japan and other locales capture what she refers
to as the "spirit of place." A large Global Harmony Labyrinth,
a visual metaphor for life's journey, is included.
Thursday, May 1, 4:30-5:45pm, L140 Chazen Museum of
Art
Chazen Museum of Art Lecture. The Odyssey of an Image: Circus
Snake Charmer Becomes African Water Goddess. Henry Drewal, Evjue-Bascom
Professor of art history and professor of Afro-American Studies,
traces the history of a famous circus snake charmer from Hamburg,
Germany, in the 1880s. Her popular image traveled through Europe
and America and then to Africa where by 1900 it became a major icon
for the water divinity called Mami Wata.
Thursday, May 1, 7:30pm-9:00pm, L160 Chazen Museum
of Art
Lecture. "Imagining Color in Proust and Murasaki."
Elaine Scarry, Harvard University. Sponsored by the Center for the
Humanities.
Friday, May 2, 9:00am, Pyle Center
Arts
and Humanities in a Digital Age: An Arts and Humanities Research
Symposium. This half-day symposium focuses on projects that
use digital technology in the arts and humanities or study its impact.
Keynote: Wendy Pradt Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Professor
at the University of Minnesota. Also: Peter Losin, Digital Humanities
Initiative, National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports
humanities projects that utilize or study the impact of digital
technology. Plus: panel of UW-Madison arts and humanities faculty
and graduate students.
Friday, May 2, 3:30pm, 180 Science Hall
Treacy Honorary Lecture. "Creative Geographies: Artists
on the Ground." Emily Scott, University of California - Los
Angeles.Emily Scott is an artist and educator whose work, within
and outside of academia, explores intersections between art, geography,
and the environment. In 2004, after many years as a park ranger
naturalist, she founded the Los
Angeles Urban Rangers , a collective that offers site-specific
programming in and about Los Angeles and its everyday urban landscapes/ecologies.
She is currently a doctoral candidate in art history
at UCLA, writing a dissertation on landscape-based art from the
1960s-1970s and the wasteland spaces where it took place. During
the 2007-2008 academic year, she is a Predoctoral Fellow at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as a Switzer Environmental
Fellow and Carter Manny Awardee.
Friday, May 2, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Mayer Gallery and Brittingham
Galleries VI & VII
Gallery
Lecture. Related to Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio and the
Art of the Circus. Cassie Wilkins.
Friday, May 2, 5:00pm-9:00pm, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Gallery
Night. Organized twice annually by the Madison Museum of Contemporary
Art, Gallery Night offers a unique opportunity to meet artists where
they make and/or exhibit their work. Museums, galleries and other
businesses throughout the city will participate, treating visitors
to receptions, tours, demonstrations, and more.
Friday, May 2, 5:30pm-9:00pm, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
First
Fridays at MMoCA-Gallery Night Blues (& reds & yellows).
Come celebrate Gallery Night with a stop at MMoCA. Visit exhibitions
of photography, sculpture, and abstract art, and groove to the cool
blues sounds of Aaron Williams and the HooDoo (Isthmus's favorite
new band of 2007) in MMoCA's stunning rooftop garden. Free for MMoCA
members and anyone sporting primary colors (blue, red and yellow)
| $5 public.
Sunday, May 4,
12:30-2:00pm, Brittingham Gallery III
Sunday Afternoon
Live from the Chazen. Wisconsin Brass Quintet.
Wednesday, May 7, 7:00pm-8:15pm, L160
Chazen Museum of Art
Chazen
Museum of Art Circus Lecture. Wondrously Wild and Wicked: Circus
Day USA. At this lecture and book signing by Janet M. Davis, University
of Texas at Austin, Davis will explore the prominent role of the
circus in shaping modern American culture and society and then sign
copies of her book "The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under
the American Big Top." Gallery hours will be extended to 7
p.m.
Friday, May 9, 6:00-7:00pm, L140 Chazen Museum of
Art
Artist talk by July Onofrio. Ringmaster: Judy Onofrio. Onofrio
will speak about her dramatic sculptures, which create a fantasy world
of transformative and exciting stories. The wonder and spectacle of
the circus have fed her imagination since childhood, and the arts
of circus promotion have inspired her artwork. Onofrio will discuss
these sources as well as many of the sculptures in the exhibition.
Saturday, May 10, 12:00pm-4:00pm, Chazen Museum
of Art.
Chazen
Museum Circus Family Day. The Mazo Movement Arts Center, Cycropia
Aerial Dance, Truly Remarkable Loon, and others will delight visitors
with performances, activities, a chance to try out circus acts, and
Big Top snacks and exhibition tours.Children ages 4-12 years old should
be accompanied by an adult.
September 8, 2007 - December 28, 2008
- Madison Musem of Contemporary Art
Individual
Experience: The Photographs of Ida Wyman. Ida Wyman, whose
career as a photojournalist began in the 1940s, is the subject
of a one-person show at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Twenty-five of Wyman's black-and-white photographs are on display
during First Fridays at MMoCA, on other Fridays from 4-6 pm, or
by appointment. Works-on-Paper Study Center.
November 9, 2007 - May 9, 2008 - Madison Musem of Contemporary
Art
Making
Visible the Invisible: Abstract Art from MMoCA's Permanent Collection.
This exhibition explores the history and nature of abstract art,
and includes work by Sam Francis, Alexander Calder, William Weege,
Paul Caponigro, Barbara Hepworth, and Ellsworth Kelly among others.
Henry Street Gallery.
October 12, 2007 - June 30, 2008 - Ebling Library
Skeletons
in the Attic, Life in the Atrium: 100 Years of Medical Education
at UW-Madison. This Ebling Library exhibit honors the School
of Medicine and Public Health's centennial (1907-2007). This historic
exhibit and gallery installation highlights the school's relationship
with the University Hospital, the evolution of the preceptorial
program and images of student life Information: 262-2402, msullivan@library.wisc.edu.
November 2007 - May 9, 2008 - Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art
Individual
Experience: The Photographs of Ida Wyman. Ida Wyman, whose
career as a photojournalist began in the 1940s, is the subject
of a one-person show at MMoCA. Twenty-five of Wyman's black-and-white
photographs are on display in the museum's Works-on-Paper Study
Center which is open during First Fridays at MMoCA and from 4-6
pm on other Fridays. It is also open by appointment.
February 18 - May 19, 2008 - Memorial Library
Sketchbooks:
Selections from the Kohler Art Library. Artists use sketchbooks
to quickly capture a fleeting moment depicted in a scene, face,
impression, interior view, animal, rambling thought or general
idea. Facsimiles have been published to reproduce the exact sketchbook
and pages of the sketchbook used by the artist. The art library
has a growing collection of these sketchbooks of Picasso, Renoir,
Cezanne, Paul Klee and Le Corbusier, among others. This exhibit
is a corollary to the "Workbooks" exhibit currently
on display in Memorial Library.
February 18 - May 19, 2008 - Memorial Library
Exhibit:
Workbooks. Workbooks — seen as places for inventing,
sketching, and reflecting — offer raw and unmediated views
of taking notes and shaping information. This exhibit explores
the history of workbooks and focuses on the book as an active
“site.” It draws on the workbooks and sketchbooks of
UW-Madison faculty and staff and other invited artists, complemented
by related holdings of the Department of Special Collections.
Guest exhibit curator is Derrick Buisch, associate professor of
art, UW-Madison. An exhibit at the Kohler Art Library will feature
other titles that speak to the theme of sketchbooks and workbooks.
March 1 - May 4, 2008 - Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Altered
Geometry: Contemporary Sculpture from MMoCA's Collection.
The exhibition surveys sculptural works of a variety of artists,
each of whom has appeared in an exhibition hosted by the museum.
While the methods, preferred materials, and critical interests
of each artist differ greatly, the geometric forms featured in
their sculptures establish a unifying current amongst them.
April 3 - April 28, 2008 - Ebling Library
An
Eye for Art - 2nd Annual Spring Exhibition. Members of the
student group, Medical Students For The Arts, will showcase pieces
of artwork during their Spring 2008 exhibition at the Ebling Library.
Art will be on display in the third floor Gallery.
April 4 - April 25, 2008 - Memorial Union
80th
Annual Student Art Show.
April 19 - June 29, 2008 - Mayer Gallery, Chazen Museum of Art
Harry
A. Atwell, Circus Photographer. Forty-two black-and-white
photographs by Harry A. Atwell (1879–1957) survey his significant
career photographing the golden age of America’s tented shows.
Atwell, a prominent Chicago publicity photographer, was hired
for his first circus assignment around 1910 to travel with the
Ringling Bros. Circus. Over the next forty years he amassed more
than 5,000 negatives, now in the collection of Circus World Museum
in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Atwell’s images of roustabouts, Big
Top crowds, sideshow performers, and center-ring stars capture
“Circus Day,” when shops, schools, and factories shut
their doors so that all could enjoy the fleeting pageantry of
the traveling shows.
April 19 - June 29, 2008 - Brittingham Galleries VI & VII
Ringmaster:
Judy Onofrio and the Art of the Circus. Judy Onofrio’s
life-sized sculptures of extraordinary performers, animals, and
circus acts will be exhibited alongside examples of banners, posters,
and carvings—drawn from the Circus World Museum collection—that
have inspired her work. Onofrio’s glittering constructions
are carved, molded, painted, and assembled from wood, fiberglass,
beads, ceramic shards, and collected objects. With Onofrio as
ringmaster, these materials take form as contortionists, acrobats,
and magicians of yesteryear who once again twist, soar, and cast
spells for audiences. In addition, a documentary of the 1920s
and 30s Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and a filmed
interview with artist Judy Onofrio will be available in the Ringmaster
exhibition.
Graduate student Marina Kliger
is one of 10 accepted applicants for the 2008 Museum Education
Paid Summer Internship at the Art Institute of Chicago. The internship
lasts for 8 weeks, from June 9 to August 2 and will provide experience
in a full range of education programs serving all ages, from children,
to high school students, to adults.
Professor Julia Murray has been
awarded a grant from the Metropolitan Center for Research on Far
Eastern Art, to support her research for the catalogue of an exhibition
on Confucius, which is scheduled for spring 2010 at the China
Institute in New York City. In addition, on April 14, she delivered
a presentation entitled "A Confucian Shrine and its Visual
Art: The Shengji tu at Kongzhai" in the China Humanities
Seminar at Harvard University.
Braden Frieder (PhD 1997) has published "Chivalry
and the Perfect Prince: Tournaments, Art, and Armor at the Spanish
Hapsburg Court," Truman State University Press. (Sixteenth
Century Essays and Studies, 81). He utilizes festival books
modeled on contemporary chivalric literature, imperial inventories
and account books of the royal household, many translated into
English for the first time. Braden teaches at Morehead State
University , Morehead KY.
PhD candidate Linde Brady concludes her time at the
Getty Museum with the opening of August Sander, People of the
Twentieth Century and Bernd and Hilla Becher, Basic Forms on
May 5. The exhibits run from May 6 to September 14. Linde worked
on the August Sander exhibit as part of her year's internship
as a curator in photography.
PhD candidate Lee Spurgeon has received an appointment
as a one-year Faculty Fellow at Colby College in Maine for the
upcoming academic year to teach Asian Art History. She has also
received a Vilas Travel Grant, a Harvard-Yenching Travel Grant
and a Houghton Library Short-Term Fellowship, all to do research
on Asian and manuscripts collections at Harvard University,
which she will be using in late May and early June.
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski will travel to Washington, DC,
on May 1st to serve as a panelist on an NEH grant review. She
will serve as a peer reviewer on grants for summer seminars
and institutes by leading scholars in the humanities for K-12
teachers. May 7-10, she travels to Fresno, CA, where she will
be chairing a session at the annual meeting of the Vernacular
Architecture Forum on "Domestic Architectures." Prof.
Andrzejewski applied for and received a travel grant to support
graduate students studying vernacular architecture to travel
to the conference. Marsely Kehoe, Ph.D. student in Art
History, and Jennifer Kauffmann-Buhler, Ph.D. student
in Design Studies, will be supported by this award this year.
On May 23-24, Prof. Andrzejewski will lead a "think-tank"
workshop with Arijit Sen, Prof. of Architecture at UW-Milwaukee,
in Milwaukee, to inaugurate the new collaborative Ph.D. program
effort between the two institutions. At this workshop, leading
scholars of architectural history and cultural landscape studies
will convene to help talk about the state of the field and the
components of the program, helping Profs. Andrzejewski, Sen,
and others in the program with the curriculum. This workshop
is generously supported by a grant from the Chipstone Foundation
of Milwaukee.
Prof. Andrzejewski is also serving on the Moe Prize
committee, which gives an award to the best exhibition catalog
published in the State of New York during 2007. Finally, she
will serve on an NEH Panel in early May in Washington, where
she will be helping award grants for k-12 education programs
that further education on American art and culture.
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