Announcing the 2021 Arts + Literature Laboratory Prize winners Rita Mawuena Benissan and Conley Clark
For Immediate Release – January 29, 2021 The Arts + Literature Laboratory and UW–Madison Art Department are pleased to announce the 2021 Arts + Literature Laboratory Prize winners University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Students Rita Mawuena Benissan and Conley...
“Let’s Talk About It” book seeks to preserve protest art and keep the moment from being forgotten by Ayomi Wolff
The American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact, in partnership with the city of Madison Arts Commission, has created a substantial book titled “Let’s Talk About It,” a compilation of the many city-commissioned murals painted along State Street...
A Respite From The Waking Nightmare: A Review of Western Exhibitions Drawing Biennial by Erin Toale
I haven’t publicly written about art for over a year. A year called incoherent, unresolved, discontinuous, and disconsonant in this very publication by Alan Pocaro, a great writer. I, a mediocre and melodramatic writer, prefer the term waking nightmare. I don’t know...
American Family Insurance rises to call for action, preserving State Street art in new book
MADISON, Wis. — Last summer, after the death of George Floyd, artists in our community started painting murals along State Street that captured the moment, mood and emotion behind the Black Lives Matter movement. The boarded up store fronts were transformed into works...