Ho-Chunk Artist Celebrated As His Sculpture Returns To Madison by Faye Parks and WORT News Department
After more than 25 years of travel – from the White House Garden in Washington D.C. to Kalamazoo, Michigan – a Truman Lowe original sculpture has found its home in Madison. On Friday, UW-Madison unveiled Effigy: Bird Form and celebrated Lowe’s long career. WORT...
Sculpture from Ho-Chunk artist Truman Lowe returns ‘home’ to UW-Madison by Sarah Lehr
When Tonia Lowe approached the eastern edge of Observatory Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus on Friday, she saw something gleaming in the sunlight. At first, her mother, Nancy Lowe, thought it was just a car. But as the pair came closer, it...
UW and tribal leaders honor newly installed Truman Lowe sculpture
University of Wisconsin–Madison and Ho-Chunk tribal leaders gathered on campus on Sept. 15 to honor a newly acquired sculpture by Indigenous artist Truman Lowe, a long-time UW–Madison professor. “Effigy, Bird Form” is meant to evoke the effigy mounds that have since...