James Watrous Gallery
The James Watrous Gallery is dedicated to celebrating Wisconsin artists. Located on the third floor of Overture Center for the Arts in downtown Madison, the Watrous focuses on solo exhibits by contemporary Wisconsin artists and curated shows that reflect the Wisconsin Academy’s interest in drawing connections between art and other disciplines.
Liz Bachhuber & Jill Sebastian: Eat My Words
The problem of waste is a global question. Bachhuber and Sebastian ask: How precious are our works and our words? How can we serve?
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Weeds Walk
Explore, document, and discuss the variety of plants growing in abandoned urban landscapes with artist Jill Sebastian ...
Liz Bachhuber & Jill Sebastian: Eat My Words
The problem of waste is a global question. Bachhuber and Sebastian ask: How precious are our works and our words? How can we serve? ...
Featured Wisconsin Artists
from Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine
Night Vision
Night Vision evolved out of my strong desire to learn more about the wild creatures that share the 58-acre farm my husband and I own in the Driftless Region of ...
Crafting Brilliance
In the world of pottery, where creativity and craftsmanship converge, some artists are not just molding and glazing their clay, but creating their own unique surface treatments. Experiments with glazes ...
Matthew Warren Lee: A Scientist’s Artist
The relationship between science and society is an important one and arguably a measure of the intellectual and aspirational health of our civilization. One way to keep this relationship strong ...
Paul Vanderbilt: Recombinant Iconographer
Curator, photographer, librarian, archivist, Monuments Man, teacher, philosopher, flaneur, iconographer—Paul Vanderbilt was all these things. No matter what his specific role in life and work, primarily, and most distinctively, he ...
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