April 19, 2024
The work of UW–Madison alumna Rita Benissan was spotlighted in the New York Times recently in their article previewing the Gallery 57 exhibition, “Constellations, Part 1: Figures on Earth & Beyond.”
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Nine from Art Department win 2024 Creative Arts Awards
April 18, 2024
Nine individuals with ties to the School of Education's Art Department are recipients of 2024 Creative Arts Awards from UW–Madison's Division of the Arts.
UW–Madison graduate students win award to pursue artistic research in Europe
April 16, 2024
UW–Madison’s Tandem Press has awarded graduate students David Love and Emilee Taxman the Gabriele S. Haberland Graduate Student Printmaking Award for Travel to Europe.
UW–Madison’s Portlock discusses intersection of art, environmentalism on WORT
April 12, 2024
UW–Madison’s Tim Portlock, a professor with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the School of Education’s Art Department, beginning in fall 2023, was a guest on WORT 89.9 FM’s “A Public Affair” program recently.
Artist-in-residence brings people together over dinner, fostering connectedness and healing
April 11, 2024
UW–Madison's Spring 2024 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence Marlon H. Hall makes tables to make meals as an art practice, inviting a cross-pollination of people — 16 at a time – to engage in the beauty intrinsic to being human. His exhibition in the Memorial Union's Main Gallery runs through May 17.
Two with School of Education ties named among Wisconsin’s most influential Native American leaders
April 11, 2024
Nicole Bowman, an associate scientist and evaluator with the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative, and Ashley Hesse, an Art Department alumnus, are among the individuals recognized on this year's list.
In podcast, UW–Madison’s Velliquette speaks on ‘presence and permanence’ in paper sculpting
April 9, 2024
UW–Madison faculty member Michael Velliquette appeared recently on the Level Up Artists podcast for an episode that is titled, “Presence and Permanence with Michael Velliquette.”
Art Department’s West among 2024-25 winners of Vilas Associates Competition
April 4, 2024
Christina West is one of 24 UW–Madison faculty winners of the 2024-25 Vilas Associates Competition, which recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance.”
On Wisconsin spotlights alumna’s ‘eye for Indigenous art’
March 26, 2024
On Wisconsin spotlighted the work of UW–Madison alumna Patricia Marroquin Norby in the Winter 2024 issue of the award-winning alumni magazine.
Memoir by UW–Madison alum reflects on friend’s death from Covid
March 19, 2024
UW–Madison alumna Barbara Seyda, who earned her bachelor’s degree from the School of Education’s Art Department in 1980, has a forthcoming memoir that is titled, “Gaudy Sorrow.”