On April 30, a portion of the UW–Madison Humanities Building — which houses half of the School of Education’s Art Department — had to be closed for repairs due to structural damage.
Andy Rubin, a lecturer in lithography, finished one last lithographic print — “of our beloved Bucky Badger, posing as a 19th century intellectual,” he explained — before the equipment had to be moved out of the building to a temporary space.
The print will be used as a fold-over cover for the print sets that Rubin’s lithography students have created this semester.
Rubin described further: “Behind (Bucky) is a bookshelf with each student named on the spine of their own book/volume/tome. At the top of the image are two framed prints: a famous self-portrait of Alois Senefelder (the inventor of lithography), and an image of an early printer at a wooden press, inking a litho stone.”
View the print in more detail, as well as other amazing work by students in Rubin’s lithography class.
Repairs to the Humanities Building are expected to be completed by the beginning of the Fall 2021 semester.