The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting
Feb 23–May 20, 2018
The Tile Club was one of many societies that formed across the United States during the late nineteenth century. Including such well-known artists as Winslow […]
Derrière: Works by Michele Marti
Apr 20–Jul 8, 2018
Exhibition Overview The 2018 Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize has been awarded to Michele Marti. Marti will create lithographs and video of the body—backs […]
Drawn to Art: The Waisman Center’s Collection
May 11–Jul 15, 2018
Exhibition Overview The Friends of the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison sponsor the Harvey A. Stevens International Collection of Art by People with […]
Watanabe: Japanese Print Envoy
Jun 1–Sep 2, 2018
Exhibition Overview In the first decades of the twentieth century, Shozaburo Watanabe started his publishing business, hiring a new generation of artists and craftsmen to […]
Print in Protest
Jun 12–Sep 16, 2018
Exhibition Overview From its beginnings, the printmaking department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison embraced social commitment. Its founder Alfred Sessler said, “I have always been […]
Iceland’s Vanishing Beauty: Photography by Michael Kienitz
Sep 14, 2018–Feb 3, 2019
Exhibition Overview Madison photographer Michael Kienitz created these images during five years of work in the region of Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland. A visually […]
Warrington Colescott: Wisconsin Master
Oct 23, 2018–Mar 3, 2019
Exhibition Overview Prints by Warrington Colescott are on view at the Chazen Museum of Art on the second floor of the Chazen building. Colescott, a […]
Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home
Nov 24, 2018–Jan 6, 2019
Exhibition Overview How does lack of safety and security affect our psyche and ability to live and flourish? Fourteen contemporary artists tackle the public issue […]
Southern Rites by Gillian Laub
Jan 25–May 12, 2019
Exhibition Overview In 2002, Gillian Laub was sent on a magazine assignment to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to document the lives of teenagers in the American […]
Un/Seen: The Alchemy of Fixing Shadows
Feb 15–Apr 14, 2019
The earliest photographic processes were simultaneously science, art, and magic. This new, strange alchemy concealed as much as it revealed, light and silver halide combining, […]