Apr 22, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
On Friday, April 12, more than 300 Wisconsin high school artists traveled to UW-Madison and the Art Department for the 2019 Visual Arts Classic (VAC), a state-wide art competition sponsored by the Wisconsin Art Education Association and the UW-Madison Art Department....
Apr 15, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
Lothar Baumgarten, a German artist living in New York, dwelled for eighteen months with indigenous people in the forests of Venezuela and Brazil in the late 1970’s, with only cameras, film, art supplies, and whatever else fit into a single backpack accompanying...
Apr 1, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
This week I am in New York directing the Conney Conference on Jewish Arts, a meeting place for artists working with Jewish content, wrestling with theory and practice and, through public talks and dialog, attempting to create a sense of place for their own...
Mar 25, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
All memory is individual, unreproducible – it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds....
Mar 11, 2019 | Essay, From the Chair
I often ask my students to create a knowledge map that illustrates as many of their inspirations and influences as they can recall. As you can imagine, asking the question in the context of an art course would return a long list of visual artists, often confined to...
