Make a face: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt by Lindsay Christians

Make a face: Anwar Floyd-Pruitt by Lindsay Christians

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...
Back to the water: Tomiko Jones by Lindsay Christians

Back to the water: Tomiko Jones by Lindsay Christians

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...
An artistic appetite: Evan Gruzis by Lindsay Christians

An artistic appetite: Evan Gruzis by Lindsay Christians

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,”...
UW-Madison students behind public art installation, ‘Something’

UW-Madison students behind public art installation, ‘Something’

The fourth floor of 821 East Washington Ave. will be softly illuminated by white light throughout September and October as part of a temporary public art project created by UW-Madison students Ben Orozco and Emily Leach. The new exhibit, “Something,” was installed...