University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Art Department

UW–Madison’s Stonehouse featured in Tone Madison

UW–Madison’s Fred Stonehouse, a professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, was featured in a Tone Madison article about his new album, “Fred Stonehouse: Accident Prone.”  Stonehouse, the article says, is known for his “surrealist, mystical visual work that seems to pull dreamlike imagination into a framework of American and religious folklore.”  Painting is a form …

Community Altar Project on display at Overture through Nov. 14 honors loved ones

UW–Madison alumnus Roberto Torres Mata is one of the organizers of the 2021 Día de los Muertos Community Altar Project on display at the Overture Center for the Arts through Sunday, Nov. 14. Torres Mata has been involved with the Community Altar Project since last year, when he was a student in the School of Education’s Art Department. …

UW–Madison connections abound in MOWA glass art exhibition

A number of artists with connections to the UW–Madison Art Department, housed in the School of Education, are part of an exhibition exploring 60 years of Wisconsin glass art at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, Wisconsin. The exhibition, titled “The Studio Glass Movement: The Hyde Collection,” coincides with the International Year of Glass …

Artwork by UW–Madison student Verma will appear at conference in Italy

Artwork by UW–Madison student Anjika Verma has been selected to appear at the 24th Generative Art International Conference in Italy Dec. 15-17.  Verma is a senior pursuing a BFA in graphic design in the School of Education’s Art Department. The generative art and design work she submitted is an interactive sound installation originally created for her …

Art Department’s Annual Open Studio Day returns on Nov. 6

UW–Madion’s Art Department will be hosting its Annual Open Studio Day on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 12-6 p.m.   This autumn arts celebration is back after a year hiatus, featuring multidisciplinary work at over 50 artist studios. The event will showcase the Art Department’s graduate and undergraduate students and include a number of special presentations at various media …

Abdu’Allah’s ‘I Wanna Kill Sam’ on display at Tate Britain

Works by UW–Madison’s Faisal Abdu’Allah are included in Tate Britain’s new display, “Sixty Years: The Unfinished Conversation.” Abdu’Allah, an internationally acclaimed artist and professor with the School of Education’s Art Department, is the Chazen Family Distinguished Chair in Art and the associate dean of the arts in the School of Education. “Sixty Years,” which opened on Oct. 13, …

Alumni invited to submit artwork for exhibitions at SGCI 2022 conference

The Printmaking Area of the School of Education’s Art Department invites UW–Madison alumni to submit printmaking artworks to be considered for spring 2022 alumni exhibitions at the UW–Madison Union art galleries during the Southern Graphics Council International Annual Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, Mar. 16-19, 2022. The exhibitions will be guest curated by UW–Madison alumna Tyanna J. Buie, assistant professor and …

‘Hangul Alphabet’ selected for Virtual Design Exhibition Forum 2021

UW–Madison’s Yeohyun Ahn and Esther Cho were invited to present their project, “Hangul Alphabet,” at the Virtual Design Education Forum 2021, taking place Nov. 11-12. Ahn is an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Art Department, and Cho is an MFA student within the Art Department. Taekyeom Lee, an assistant professor of graphic design at Iowa …

Lee is named faculty director of The Studio creative arts community

Helen Lee has been named the faculty director of The Studio, UW–Madison’s residential creative arts community for first- and second-year undergraduate students. Lee is an associate professor in the School of Education’s Art Department. She is an artist, designer, and educator, who holds an MFA in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and a bachelor’s …