The artists call it “the glory hole.” It’s one of three furnaces essential for glassmaking, used to reheat glass while a piece is being worked on. On this late November day, inside the Glass Lab on North Frances Street, the glory hole is burning at 2,150 degrees...
Q&A with MIAD President Jeffrey Morin, who knows firsthand how hard it can be for first-generation college students to succeed. In the three and a half years since Jeffrey Morin [MFA ’87] became president of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, the...
The Madison Municipal Building reopened to the public on Saturday and featured work by more than a dozen artists, including painters Pranav Sood and Katherine Rosing, photographers Tom Jones, Craig Wilson and Zane Williams, muralist Pete Hodapp and sculptor Aris...
Karin Wolf, Madison’s city arts administrator, spent months pulling together the art for the newly remodeled Madison Municipal Building. When the building officially opened Saturday at 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., every floor displayed work from local...
Noah Ash’s high school grades were fine but nothing special, he says, owing in part to a senior year that found him immersed mostly in a student production of “West Side Story.” When he realized that UW–Madison, his dream school, was not going to happen academically,...
Whether presenting a new collection of artwork in his hometown of London, speaking with UW–Madison students or working with court-involved teens in Dane County, Wisconsin, Faisal Abdu’Allah isn’t afraid to draw attention to — or ask probing questions about — history,...
