Fall 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
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Location TBA. An indigenous artist and cultural educator, Melanie Tallmadge Sainz is a guardian of Ho-Chunk heritage who uses her mastery of beadwork and mixed media to sustain and share Native traditions. Her art is inspired by the history and legacy of her Ho-Chunk (English translation: People of the Big Voice) people. She specializes in traditional and contemporary techniques, including porcupine quill embroidery, beadwork, natural fiber weaving and twining, and mixed-media mosaics. UW Art Department (Humanities Building, 6th & 7th Fl & Art Lofts). 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Michelle Grabner is a Wisconsin-based artist, writer, and curator. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was the Artistic Director for the inaugural 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Her practice spans a variety of media including drawing, painting, and sculpture, and finds a creative center in operating across platforms and towards community. Her work has been the subject of several national museum surveys. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Dr Jadine Collingwood is Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. At the MCA, she has curated projects, including Chicago Works: Caroline Kent (2021), Martine Syms: She Mad Season One (2022), Gary Simmons: Public Enemy (with René Morales, 2023), Nicole Eisenman: What Happened (organized by Monika Bayer-Wermuth and Mark Godfrey, 2024), and Slow Dance (2026). Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Catalina Schliebener Muñoz, is a Chilean-born, trans, and intersex visual artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Their research and collage-based practice extends across multiple media, including work on paper, sculpture, installations, and mixed-media murals. Their work focuses on everyday images and objects related to popular constructions of childhood and adolescence and explores and interrogates learned stereotypes around gender, sexuality, class, and nationalism. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Peter Shear is best known for small-format canvases that resist classification, fixed formulae, or repetition. As a painter, he has staked out a position that uncouples abstract painting from the inheritance of established idioms, offering an exploratory approach and an alternative to dogma and orthodoxy. Working with essentials—planes of color, schematic marks, loosely defined shapes, provisional geometries—his paintings inhabit the space between abstraction and legibility. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Paul Vanouse has sought to force the arcane codes of scientific communication into a broader cultural language. Interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his art practice. For nearly thirty years he has employed molecular biology techniques in his artwork to challenge notions of individual, racial, and national identity. His current project, “Utter”, is a highly process-based endeavor that explores the phenomena of breathing. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Fall 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
A scholar of contemporary studio craft, material culture, decorative arts, and design, Perry Price is the Executive Director of the international Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine. Prior to joining Haystack, he served as executive director of the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, Texas, as director of education for the American Craft Council in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as curator of exhibitions and collections for Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. 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
Furniture maker, artist, and educator Wendy Maruyama has spent more than five decades creating innovative, boundary-pushing work. Rooted in traditional craft, her early pieces explored feminist ideas through furniture and material culture. In recent years, her practice has expanded beyond studio craft into the realm of social practice, addressing urgent global issues through art. Her ongoing wildLIFE Project confronts the endangerment of elephants—an issue that is deeply personal to her. 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
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