The M List 2018: Innovation in the Arts by Katie Vaughn

The M List 2018: Innovation in the Arts by Katie Vaughn

Oct 23, 2018 | News

Cities often recognize the best and brightest. They promote the most influential, the most successful, the most powerful and the most glamorous. Yawn. Madison is home to a strikingly rich population of innovators, creators, doers and dreamers. They are thinkers and...
Point of view by Lindsay Christians

Point of view by Lindsay Christians

Oct 3, 2018 | News

The university may bring artists here, but it’s the community they find that makes them stay. The four artists in this week’s cover story — 4D grad student Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, queer artist and educator Alaura Borealis, new photography professor Tomiko Jones and...
An artistic appetite: Evan Gruzis by Lindsay Christians

An artistic appetite: Evan Gruzis by Lindsay Christians

Oct 3, 2018 | News

Evan Gruzis [BFA ’02] underestimated Madison’s love of tie-dye. Last June, Gruzis and a group of artist friends pitched a few tents and set up big buckets of bold color at a ’60s-themed Madison Night Market. There’d been a little promotion for “We’re Dyeing,”...
Looking Backwards With a Smile by Catherine Jozwik

Looking Backwards With a Smile by Catherine Jozwik

Sep 14, 2018 | News

Artist Tyanna Buie [MFA ’10] had an upbringing that sounds tough: she was placed in foster care at an early age, growing up on Chicago’s South Side. She recalls living in a household with her aunt and eight other children. Yet there is a cheeriness to her work...