An ear of corn. Male genitalia. A pile of rodent droppings. Maggots. These are not images the artist intended to evoke when creating the much-criticized “Nails’ Tales” sculpture outside Camp Randall Stadium. Crew removed the obelisk of footballs Wednesday after more...
Ed Erdmann’s art tells stories of Wisconsin’s northwestern landscape and shifting seasons, recreated in sand and dirt. “He is actually putting dirt from the land from Wisconsin on the canvas and making these dirt paintings,” said Mel Becker Solomon, Madison Museum of...
Cleveland Heights resident Debbie Apple-Presser [BS-Art ’79] never shied away from trying new things and following unexpected paths. She made coats out of vintage fabrics, opened one of the first art galleries in Little Italy and worked as a lecturer and...
NEW YORK — I was standing in one of the largest museums in the world, thinking about the future of farming and the changing culture unfolding across rural Wisconsin. This wasn’t a work trip. It was a Thursday in late June and our family was in the midst of a five-day,...
The objects we pass by in our everyday lives—billboards or buildings, signs, or street posts—tend to hardly register in our consciousness, perhaps creating a neural blip before quickly fading into the subconscious. But when a person is removed from their usual...
The Campus Art Exchange collection has been decades in the making. Many of the nearly 200 pieces had been out of sight, kept in closets and corridors after remodeling jobs or the passage of time and tastes that left the artwork out of the picture. But art is made to...
