The Layered Onion—Peeling Back the Layers: The Art of Glass and Mindful Creativity with Ben Orozco
Join us for an in-depth conversation with Ben Orozco [BFA ’19], a multimedia artist and designer renowned for his innovative glassmaking and photography. In this episode, we explore Ben’s artistic journey, highlighting his unique blend of Scandinavian...
Retrospective of Truman Lowe’s artwork to open at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
A major retrospective of the late Ho-Chunk artist and longtime UW–Madison faculty member Truman Lowe is scheduled to open on Oct. 24 at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. However, due to the ongoing U.S. federal government...
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...