Oct 3, 2018 | News
The university may bring artists here, but it’s the community they find that makes them stay. The four artists in this week’s cover story — 4D grad student Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, queer artist and educator Alaura Borealis, new photography professor Tomiko Jones and...
Oct 3, 2018 | News
Anwar Floyd-Pruitt has made thousands of faces. Each one is a single, unbroken line tracing eyes, ears, lips and a nose in pen and ink or silicone caulk. It’s a quickly repeated self-portrait, an evolving, abstract sketch of how he looks to the world at any given...
Oct 3, 2018 | News
When photographer Tomiko Jones travels, she likes to make cyanotypes — a simple, alternative photo process that involves chemically treated paper and UV light — using the water from a local reservoir or river. The natural water can make the picture cloudy if it was a...
Oct 3, 2018 | News
Evan Gruzis [BFA ’02] underestimated Madison’s love of tie-dye. Last June, Gruzis and a group of artist friends pitched a few tents and set up big buckets of bold color at a ’60s-themed Madison Night Market. There’d been a little promotion for “We’re Dyeing,”...
Sep 28, 2018 | News
Oscar de la Renta’s Spring runway presentation in New York on Sept. 11 featured supermodel sisters Bella and Gigi Hadid, a front row packed with hip-hop superstars, and elegant-but-easy clothes that took inspiration from the Silk Road (think luxe caftans and...
Sep 26, 2018 | News
In a balmy lab on the campus of UW-Madison, a number of students are finishing up their art projects for the semester. One opens up a sliding door to a furnace heated to over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the other uses a long pole to gather up some of the molten liquid...
