Faisal Abdu’Allah On His Upbringing In The UK, Research, Art Practice, And Recent MMoCA Exhibition
This week, Framing Culture’s host José Teixeira invited Faisal Abdu’Allah, professor at the UW-Madison Art Department to talk about his life and work. Elaborating on the challenges of the cultural and educational British landscape, Faisal sheds light on his ongoing...
On Wisconsin spotlights alumna’s ‘eye for Indigenous art’
On Wisconsin spotlighted the work of UW–Madison alumna Patricia Marroquin Norby in the Winter 2024 issue of the award-winning alumni magazine. The feature, headlined “An Eye for Indigenous Art,” shares how Norby is bringing together Indigenous art and perspectives and...
Imagining National Belonging in American Landscapes by Professor Tomiko Jones
Growing up I spent summers with my maternal grandmother, Grandma Takatani, either at her home in rural Hawai’i, or on a road trip on the mainland. As she was legally blind, I did not consider the irony of her “seeing” America. My parents would pile us into the car and...
From Africa to Hong Kong, a Gallery’s Influence Grows by Ginanne Brownell
The dusting of charcoal still on her hands hinted that the Kenyan British artist Phoebe Boswell had just finished putting the final touches on the trees she had created in the entry hallway of the London outpost of Ghana’s Gallery 1957. With the show “Constellations,...