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  • Anamika Siingh standing at the entrance to the exhibition.
    April 30, 2025

    In Debris, Sound, and Images, Corpus Grapples with Contested Histories and Violence

    UW–Madison MFA candidate Anamika Singh has been awarded this year’s Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize, an honor that includes a solo exhibition at the […]

  • a landscape painting with figures in the foreground and buildings in the mid-ground and horizon line.
    April 21, 2025

    Teaching with Treasures: How UW–Madison Faculty Use the Chazen Collection to Spark Engagement

    This year, UW–Madison faculty members from disciplines across campus used the Chazen’s permanent collection to spark curiosity, deepen analysis, and make abstract ideas more tangible […]

  • Slabs of orange-pink concrete
    March 25, 2025

    2025 Panczenko MFA Prize Exhibition Now Open

    The 2025 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize winner is Anamika Singh. A current MFA candidate at UW–Madison, Singh’s mixed media practice is the focus […]

  • March 10, 2025

    Esherick Exhibition Sparks Inspiration for Students and Local Woodcrafters

    This semester, UW–Madison students are taking the rare opportunity to explore the work of Wharton Esherick, the pioneering wood craftsman and artist often called the […]

  • February 19, 2025

    Contemporary Vietnamese Artworks Join the Collection

    The Chazen has accessioned seven Vietnamese works on paper that will significantly grow and diversify the museum’s holdings of contemporary art of Southeast Asia. “We […]

  • February 4, 2025

    The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick opens February 17

    MADISON, Wis. – Form, function and fine art coexist in The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick, on view Feb. 17–May 18, 2025 at the Chazen […]

  • December 12, 2024

    Last-Minute Gift Ideas from the Chazen

    Still not done holiday shopping? Art lovers on your gift list? We’ve got you. From newly designed Chazen merchandise, books, and prints to museum store […]

  • An overhead view of tables full of studying students on the right, and students gathered around therapy dogs on the left
    December 5, 2024

    The Chazen’s Study Day helps Badgers #FinishStrong

    This year’s Study Day at the Chazen Museum of Art will have more therapy dogs, more art-surrounded study spaces, more oranges—and possibly more students, depending […]

  • A variety of white people look at the Zelda sculpture in its glass case. The sculpture is covered in white wax, has a vaguely human form, candles, beads, and tiny wax hands cover it.
    November 25, 2024

    With Conversation, Chazen Tours Aim to Help You Connect with the Art

    What’s a Sunday tour at the Chazen Museum of Art like? It might be a tour of a single exhibition. It might focus on a […]

  • October 17, 2024

    Grant Supports Student-Friendly Programming and More

    What does the word access mean to you? At the Chazen Museum of Art, access means thinking broadly about ways to attract people who aren’t […]

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