From the Chair

Sep 9, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair

My garden is full of sunflowers right now. None of them were planted by me, yet, there they are; a kind of crazy incursion of self-propagated second generation immigrant flowers set into motion by a crop planted and harvested last year. I did plant sunflowers again...
Lynda Barry Explores the Language of Art by Heidi MacDonald

Lynda Barry Explores the Language of Art by Heidi MacDonald

Sep 6, 2019 | News

Making art is like a Ouija board for the subconscious, only without the supernatural. So says cartoonist and educator [Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity] Lynda Barry, whose new book Making Comics, due in November from Drawn & Quarterly, offers readers...

UW-Madison Art Major Meet & Greet

Sep 4, 2019 | ArtsatUW, Events

Monday, September 9 @ 4:30-6:30pm Location: Gallery 7, Humanities Building, 7th Floor, 455 N Park St, Madison, WI Calling all current UW-Madison art majors! You’re invited to the Art Major Meet & Greet on Monday, September 9th from 4:30-6:30pm in Gallery 7: our...
Exploring layers in quilting

Exploring layers in quilting

Aug 30, 2019 | News

MICHIGAN CITY — Michigan City artists Laurel Izard [MFA ’81] and Edwin Shelton [MFA ’80] are using the medium of quilts to express their concerns for mass extinction and the duality of life while also raising money for a local children’s charity....
School of Education greets 13 new faculty members

School of Education greets 13 new faculty members

Aug 28, 2019 | News

UW-Madison’s School of Education celebrated the start of the 2019-20 academic year with its annual Welcome Back Bash event on Thursday, Aug. 29. And once again, the School welcomed a large cohort of new faculty members, with 13 talented scholars joining the School of...