Nov 22, 2019 | News
When word came this fall that she was receiving an honor worth $625,000, Lynda Barry knew what she would do with it: spend money on artists at their most pure — those who had only recently stopped wearing diapers. Barry, the indie comics creator turned cutting-edge...
Nov 19, 2019 | News
Paulina Eguino is a third year art major concentrating in neon and cartoon art, and is one of only two students at the University of Wisconsin with neon as one of the concentrations for their major. Though she didn’t start working with neon until college, her work has...
Nov 11, 2019 | News
Two years ago, Bird Ross [MFA ’92] and Brenda Baker [MFA ’90] came up with the idea for an art prize to support Dane County’s professional female artists. Gender disparities in the art world are stark. Only 30% of artists represented in commercial...
Nov 10, 2019 | News
It was an art show two years ago that first sparked an idea for Madison artists Bird Ross [MFA ’92] and Brenda Baker [MFA ’90]. And then another idea. And another. The culmination of that chain of sparks came Friday night with the announcement of the two...
Nov 5, 2019 | News
I’ve been a fan of cartoonist, novelist and memoirist Lynda Barry for decades, long before she was declared a certified genius; Barry’s latest book, Making Comics is an intensely practical, incredibly inspiring curriculum for finding, honing and realizing...
Nov 3, 2019 | News
Artist Jayne Reid Jackson [BS-Art ’77] could be working on a piece for weeks before she knows exactly what it looks like. Jackson is a practiced hand at mezzotint, a centuries-old printing process, but it still surprises her all the time. “The plate can fool you...
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