Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Chris Bradley is an artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Over the past two decades, Bradley has developed a sculptural language around representation, poetics of ordinary subjects, trompe l’oeil techniques, and exhibition as a site for the imagination. He uses this creative language to encourage his audience to practice the suspension of disbelief as a method for reconsidering and understanding this shared common world. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Leonie Bradley is a conceptual artist working in the field of expanded printmaking. Currently, she is working with AI-art generators to explore their impact through the traditional, analogue medium of wood engraving. She describes her work as in a constant state of flux: a balance between formal structure and experimentation, between repetition and one-offs. Playing at the intersection of processes, always with an urge to communicate ideas. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Our graduate students earning their Masters degrees will present their interdisciplinary work to the public. Explore their body of art, three-years in the making through the development of a rigorous studio art practice under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee, learning to cultivate professional practices that facilitate a sustainable career in the arts. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Ben Blount is an artist, designer, and letterpress printer best known for work that explores ideas of race, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about living in America. Blount was born and raised in Detroit and has spent most of his adult life as a graphic designer in the Chicagoland area. As a designer, he has worked with a range of non-profit, educational, and creative arts clients. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Our graduate students earning their Masters degrees will present their interdisciplinary work to the public. Explore their body of art, three-years in the making through the development of a rigorous studio art practice under the supervision of a faculty guidance committee, learning to cultivate professional practices that facilitate a sustainable career in the arts. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Taj Matumbi is an emerging artist, who grew up in Northern California. A 2021 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he earned an MFA in painting and 2018 received his BFA in ceramics and painting from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. Matumbi has had two solo museum exhibitions at MOWA’s satellite gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and at University of Alabama’s Paul R. Jones Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Astria Suparak’s cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism, feminism, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science fiction movies, rock music, memes, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work, Suparak’s projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives. Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Joyce Lin is a Houston-based artist and furniture maker whose practice investigates the relationship between surface and structure and the eroding boundaries between the natural and human-made. Merging meticulous craftsmanship with experimental processes in wood, found materials, fiberglass, and more, she reimagines familiar forms—chairs, tables, and other functional archetypes—as studies on dissection, reconstruction, and mimicry. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Hannah Beerman's themes in her mixed-media paintings include play, loss, survival and desire. She includes wigs, clothing, food and more found objects and collage in her work. Beerman’s paintings have been exhibited at the The Brooklyn Museum, Anton Kern Gallery, Fredericks and Freiser, Kapp Kapp, Duck Creek and Stowaway among many others. She has lectured at The Cooper Union, RISD, NYU, Cornell, School of Art Institute of Chicago, and more. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu