Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Pei-Hsuan Wang’s practice traces kinship shaped by migration, memory, and the interplay between personal and canonized histories. Weaving together bio(mytho)graphical narratives, folklore, and cultural artifacts born of Asia-Pacific geopolitics, her work reflects on how meaning is carried and reconstructed across generations. Through sculpture, installation, video, drawing, and public intervention, Wang navigates migratory restlessness. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Cost: Free, seating is reserved. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Jim Gaylord is a New York based artist who explores the possibilities and boundaries of abstraction, adapting languages of formalism, geometry, ornament, and iconography. He interlayers motifs from both man-made and organic structures, finding connections between engineered and naturally occurring patterns. Recontextualizing symbols from our visual culture, his work resonates in ways that are specific yet enigmatic, inviting multiple readings. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Cost: Free, seating is reserved. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Mini Relief Prints Workshop with Christie Tirado
You will design and carve a 3”x4” relief block, apply ink to it, and then hand-print the plate with a barren to create a textured graphic print. We will be using easy to carve plates, and a variety of safe-wash inks to print our pieces. This class is for anyone interested in learning more about the relief printmaking process. All supplies and tools will be provided. Mead Witter Lobby, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Information: hphart@wisc.edu
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