Apr 17, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
We are deeply inside of a historical moment now, made vividly aware of the minutiae of the moment via 24/7 news and streaming media. So much so that it is, for me, overwhelming. I am also very aware of the aggregation of mediated images of the Covid-19 crisis into a...
Apr 13, 2020 | ArtsatUW, Events
Wednesday, April 15 @ 12 – 1pm ONLINE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Typographer, maker, and design educator, Taekyeom Lee, will present a virtual artist talk of his artwork, students’ works, and recent works produced during the pandemic while working in a home...
Apr 13, 2020 | MFA Exhibitions, News
Maryam Ladoni, a photo-based artist who grew up in Iran and came to UW–Madison to pursue a master of fine arts, was looking forward to opening her MFA exhibition to the public March 23-26. But on March 11, due to growing public health concerns over COVID-19, the...
Apr 10, 2020 | Essay, From the Chair
In 1992, the Choreographer Bill T. Jones lost his partner Arnie Zane to HIV/AIDS. Shortly thereafter, as he moved through his own grief and still in the crisis days of the AIDS epidemic (and HIV positive himself) he initiated a series of what he called Survival...
