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Expand your perspective and connect with your classmates, your community, and the world around you!
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Announcing the new Assistant Faculty of Art Metals Jaydan Moore!

Announcing the new Assistant Faculty of Art Metals Jaydan Moore!

For Immediate Release – May 15, 2025

The UW–Madison Art Department is pleased to announce the new Assistant Faculty of Art Metals joining us this Fall 2025 semester, Jaydan Moore!

Moore (he/him) was born into a family of fourth-generation tombstone makers in Northern California. Most of his childhood was spent at the family business, which doubled as a rental storage space. He would rummage through other people’s objects left behind and listen to family members making burial arrangements for their loved ones. Through these experiences, he began to value the heirlooms and objects chosen to become markers for significant moments that occur during the human experience.

Moore’s career began as an undergraduate at California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. He received his MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been exhibited at Design/Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Basel (Switzerland), the Museum of Art and Design in NYC, the Cheongju Craft Biennale, Homo Faber Biennial, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the R & Company Gallery, and is in the permanent collections of the SF MOMA, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and private collections worldwide. He has furthered his career through generous opportunities as an artist in residence at Penland School of Crafts, Kohler Arts/Industry Program, the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Moore has received grants and awards through the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, the American Craft Council, the North Carolina Arts Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation.  Moore has held teaching opponents at Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Georgia, Old Dominion University, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft.

He formerly resided in Richmond, Virginia, and works as an artist on new work for permanent and private collections.

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Spring 2025 Visiting Artist Colloquium

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Tours are now available by appointment, view our upcoming Art Department events for prospective students at Visit Bucky: apps.admissions.wisc.edu/visitbucky/

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What Can Art Do Show Reception Gallery 7, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A visitor views the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student work on display at the Swap Meet trade show with the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
An undergraduate student works on a sculpture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Students use a torch to heat a glass piece at the UW Glass Lab in the Art Lofts Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A student pulls a print off a lithography stone in Lithography class at the Mosse Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Art faculty Lynda Barry poses with a student in her Making Comics class at the Mosse Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A student talks about their artwork at Gallery 7 at the Mosse Humanities Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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The UW-Madison Art Department is:

  • #1 in Printmaking
  • Ranked among the top 15 Fine Arts MFA programs
  • Founded the 1st collegiate Glass program in the U.S.
  • 1 of only 5 universities in the nation with a Neon program

Ranking Source: U.S. News & World Report

The University of Wisconsin-Madison ART DEPARTMENT is committed to teaching art in the context of a major research university and a vibrant intellectual community. Offering the following degrees: B.S., B.F.A., M.A., & M.F.A. in Studio Art, B.S. in Art Education, Certificate in Art Studio, and Certificate in Graphic Design.

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