Sep 16, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
I have a multi-drawer Steelcase file cabinet in my office filled with xeroxed copies of articles, essays, and printed matter that, at some point in my life, I found to be interesting or even profound. Even as I write that sentence it feels arcane and of another time....
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...
Apr 29, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go… -Walt Whitman, from The Wound-Dresser I’ve been thinking a lot lately about about the metaphorical and often quite real presence of the wound in contemporary art. Ideas about the wound...
Apr 22, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
On Friday, April 12, more than 300 Wisconsin high school artists traveled to UW-Madison and the Art Department for the 2019 Visual Arts Classic (VAC), a state-wide art competition sponsored by the Wisconsin Art Education Association and the UW-Madison Art Department....
Apr 15, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Lothar Baumgarten, a German artist living in New York, dwelled for eighteen months with indigenous people in the forests of Venezuela and Brazil in the late 1970’s, with only cameras, film, art supplies, and whatever else fit into a single backpack accompanying...
Apr 1, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
This week I am in New York directing the Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, a meeting place for artists working with Jewish content, wrestling with theory and practice and, through public talks and dialog, attempting to create a sense of place for their own...
