Careers in Museums: A Conversation with Chazen Staff
Curious what it looks like to work in museums? Join us for a special career panel featuring staff members from across the Chazen Museum of Art. This panel will offer overviews of different kinds of careers and career paths, as well as advice for early professionals starting out in the field.
Speakers:
Mariana Cameli, Director of Development
Andrea Selbig, Collections Registrar
Erica DiBenedetto, Curator
Haylie Hart, Event Coordinator
This program is offered in partnerships with the Department Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6 p.m. Cost: Free. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Exhibition Celebration: Pressing Issues with Dr. Ericka Wills and Professor Alexia Kulwiec
Join us for an evening of art and dialogue as we celebrate Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s US. The exhibition brings together work by artists who, through their art, produced radical critical commentaries on the social injustices plaguing the country in their time.
The event begins at 5 p.m. with a conversation with Dr. Ericka Wills and Professor Alexia Kulwiec from the UW-Madison School of Workers. Together, they'll bring the perspectives of labor organizing and labor l Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Cost: free. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Rendering Visible: A Talk by Dana Landress
How can artists call attention to critical issues and realities of their time? Join Dana Landress, Assistant Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, for a talk that delves deeper into the art on view in Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States. As a scholar focused on the histories of structural racism, economic inequality, and labor history, Landress will invite attendees to make connections between the themes in the exhibition and our current moment. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
The Art of Memory: A Conversation with Dale M. Kushner and Viviane Silvera
Join novelist and poet Dale M. Kushner and filmmaker and artist Viviane Silvera for a conversation exploring the intersections of storytelling, neuroscience, and visual art. Centered around Silvera’s film See Memory—composed of over 30,000 hand-painted frames—the conversation will be moderated by Michelle Wildgen, author and Writer-in-Residence at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Infrastructure Bodies/Injury Systems
Anne E. Stoner's artist 's talk is April 10, 5–6 p.m. in the Play Circle Theatre on the second floor of Memorial Union.
Opening reception is April 10, 6–7:30 p.m., outside of the Main Gallery of Memorial Union. Light refreshments will be provided!
Infrastructure Bodies/Injury Systems will be on view in the Main Gallery at Memorial Union, April 10–May 22, 2026.
Open hours: 8 a.m.–10 p.m., daily, except holiday/university closures. Main Gallery, Memorial Union. 5-7:30 p.m. Cost: free.
Rosemaling at the Chazen
Join Tara Austin (MFA 2017), UW–Madison’s Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Culture’s 2026 Folk-Artist-in-Residence and for a live rosemaling demonstration accompanied by Nordic American old-time music from the Nordic Lights Dance Band. Rosemaling is a traditional Nordic decorative painting style that emphasizes floral designs and swooping scrolls. UW–Madison folklorists will provide historical context and moderate a question-and-answer session with the artist. Mead Witter Lobby, Chazen Museum of Art. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
In Conversation: Sable Elyse Smith
Join us for a conversation with New York–based artist Sable Elyse Smith and Tandem Press Collaborative Printer Patrick Smyczek. They will discuss their collaborative process in creating Smith’s first print edition at Tandem Press. Smith works across video, painting, and performance, interrogating the carceral state and the pedagogical systems that normalize its authority. Her work reveals how seemingly ordinary visual languages participate in the maintenance of legal and social power. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Francisco Scarano Lecture Series – Inaugural Talk
Join us for the inaugural lecture of the Puerto Rican Studies Hub’s Francisco Scarano Lecture Series, honoring UW–Madison Professor Emeritus Francisco A. Scarano. In “Peasants, Doctors, and Empires,” he examines how medicine and empire shaped Puerto Rican life around 1900. Arrive early to visit Caribbean Matters: Cuestiones Caribeñas by Pablo Delano, co-curated by Aurora Santiago Ortiz and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Lecture begins at 5:30 p.m.
Join us for a light reception before the talk. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 4:30 p.m. Cost: free and open to the public. Information: 263-1661, prstudies.hub@wisc.edu
Experiencing Music in the Holocaust: Talk by Teryl Dobbs
Music in the Holocaust is often perceived as means of hope, resistance, and inspiration. However, a dark side existed: the Nazi regime employed music as propaganda, for inciting riots, and as a form of torture. Hence, music was experienced in profoundly different ways: it could sooth, comfort, and inspire hope as well as serve as a means of pain. Join Teryl (Teri) Dobbs, PhD, professor emerita, UW-Madison, in this public talk as she explores the complicated musical experience of the Holocaust. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-6:15 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu
Leilehua Lanzilotti: Screening and Talk
The hidden soundscapes of Toshiko Takaezu’s closed ceramics have long captivated Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kanaka Maoli sound artist, composer, and co-curator of the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within. Over the course of several years, Lanzilotti collected recordings of Takaezu’s closed forms, gently tapping their surfaces and revolving them so the small ceramic rattles within them resound.
Free and open to all. RSVPs appreciated. Walk-ins welcome as capacity allows. Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art. 5-7 p.m. Information: 263-2246, events@chazen.wisc.edu