GRADUATE STUDIOS

The UW-Madison Art Department encompasses 160,000 square feet of space dedicated to art production, exhibitions, and studios, including state-of-the-art facilities in printmaking, artists’ books and papermaking, painting and drawing, comics, graphic design, sculpture, ceramics, digital fabrication and printing, fine art metals, woodworking, glass (hot shop and neon lab), imaging and editing, sound and digital animation studios, and photography (black and white dark room and digital labs). The department is also proud of its two art galleries which total approximately 3400 square feet. In addition to scheduling MA and MFA thesis exhibitions, each year the department also provides visual exhibition programming for visiting artists and traveling exhibitions.

The MFA program boasts over 15,000 square feet of MFA studio space besides the facilities. All masters-level students are assigned a private studio ranging in size from 120-200 square feet. Studios are located within walking distance of the department’s industrial shops, labs, and galleries at the Art Lofts and in the Humanities Building.

Detail of Elizabeth Younce's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Julie Marie Ables' Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Sarah Deppe's grad studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of John Duncan's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of a Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Hsuan-Ying Lu's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Anthony Deibner-Hanson's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Justin Eccles' Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Brian Bartlett's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Tim Brenner's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Rebecca Kautz's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Chloe Darke's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Justin Playl's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Alexander Donnelly's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Diana Cavallero's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Sarah Stankey's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Amanda Sciullo's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Julie Marie Ables's grad studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Katelyn Alain's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Jay Katelansky's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Brian Bartlett's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Adriana Barrios's grad studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Chris Maddox's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Jay Ludden's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Chris Hall's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Taylor Rushing's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A view of a graduate studio with neon lighting in the Art Lofts.

Detail of Angela Johnson's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Justin Bergin's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Stephanie Lifshutz's Grad Studio, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Detail of Rachel Griffin's work, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

40 Years of MFA Studios: Nooks and Crannies

The Art Department, once housed entirely within the Education and Humanities buildings, has spent 40 years finding creative ways to house MFA students in a plethora of buildings across campus: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Aspiring artists have used condemnable houses and storefronts, former engineering labs, a State Street attic and basement, a poultry research lab, abandoned physics offices, and a campus photo lab as places to think, research, plan and create.

While the circumstances demanded limitless ingenuity, in the spring and summer of 2009 all of our graduate students and faculty found studios among the department again in the Humanities Building or at the Art Lofts.