Greetings! Madison Public Market art projects take shape by Lindsay Christians
When hungry locals approach the new Madison Public Market next summer, public art will welcome them from every direction. Imagine turning onto First Street to view a massive rendering of a young woman in a Ho-Chunk tribal costume, surrounded by beadwork. “Elizah...
Finding Affinity Between Native and Western Abstraction by Hilarie M. Sheets
The kapémni form, an abstract Lakota symbol broadly recognizable to Indigenous tribes of the Great Plains, consists of two mirrored triangles balanced in the center at their tips in an hourglass shape. The lower one represents the physical world, the upper one the sky...
UW–Madison Art Department to host Fall Open House on Oct. 25
The UW–Madison Art Department will host its annual Fall Open House on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 12 to 5 p.m. in both the Humanities Building and Art Lofts. The event is free and open to current and prospective students and the public. Visitors can tour classrooms and...
Hoorf! Radical Care in a Late-Capitalist Heckscape Season 4, Episode 1: “an open relationship with time;” crip time and crip materiality, with disabled clay artist Car Riegger
Content note: this episode contains discussion of human specimens displayed for public viewing On this episode, Elle welcomes Car Riegger, a chronically ill and disabled artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Riegger is pursuing their MFA [at UW–Madison], focusing on...