From the Chair

Feb 26, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair

Museums are perhaps the most comforting spaces for me. Full of objects and art, thoughtfully arranged and displayed and, depending on the choices of the curators, often exhilarating to pass through. While museums vary in architectural style and in the type of objects...
Cap Times Talk explores public art in Madison by Abigail Becker

Cap Times Talk explores public art in Madison by Abigail Becker

Feb 22, 2018 | News

Madison artist Kelly Parks Snider sees potential locations for public art everywhere in Madison. “I’m just driving through town, and I think, ‘There should be art there, there should be art there.’ Everywhere I go, all the time,” Parks Snider said at a Cap Times Talk...

From the Chair

Feb 19, 2018 | Essay, From the Chair

It is hard to write anything in the face of overwhelming grief after a public tragedy as others are burdened with mourning and loss. Perhaps there is some measure of comfort to be found in thinking about how art functions in such times, as both a balm and as a space...