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. Mask-wearing is requested by artists at all events; masks will be available. 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. L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building. 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. L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Craig Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta, Georgia, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is represented by Brigitte Mulholland Gallery in Paris and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Marietta-Cobb Museum in Marietta, Georgia, The Suburban in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Freight+ Volume Gallery in New York City. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Anton Kern Gallery in New York City and the Kunstverein Langenhagen in Langenhagen, Germany. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu
Spring 2026 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Perry Price is the executive director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine. He is a scholar of contemporary studio craft, material culture, decorative arts, and design. 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, and as curator of exhibitions and collections for Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. Chazen Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 262-1660, artfrontdesk@education.wisc.edu