Wednesday, November 4 @ 5:00 – 6:15pm
Chazen Auditorium
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Michelle Grabner is a Wisconsin-based artist, writer, and curator. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was the Artistic Director for the inaugural 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Her practice spans a variety of media including drawing, painting, and sculpture, and finds a creative center in operating across platforms and towards community. Her work has been the subject of several national museum surveys. She is represented by James Cohan, New York, and Green Gallery, Milwaukee, among others.
Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art and the Senior Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. She has also held teaching appointments at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art; Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts—Bard College; Yale University School of Art; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine. michellegrabner.com
Join Tandem Press for In the Studio: Michelle Grabner on Thursday, November 5th at 5:30pm, for a conversation between Milwaukee-based artist Michelle Grabner and Tandem Press Director Katie Geha. Together, they will discuss Grabner’s collaborations with Tandem, the ways education and printmaking inform her broader artistic practice, and how her dual roles as artist and curator contribute to building and sustaining creative communities. This event offers a unique opportunity to gain insight into the intersections of art, education, and collaboration that shape contemporary practice.
Presented in collaboration with UW–Madison’s Kohler Art Library, with support from the Nene Humphrey Women in Art Fund.