by Lynn Keller | May 13, 2019 | Magazine Article
When we consider the impacts of global climate change, we tend to think of spectacular disasters fueled by extreme weather—deadly fires and mudslides in California, flooding from Hurricane Sandy—or of massive environmental transformations—glaciers calving in Greenland...
by Nathaniel Stern, Maggie Sasso, Jody Clowes | Oct 29, 2018 | Magazine Article
Maggie Sasso and Nathaniel Stern, the two Milwaukee-based artists featured in our forthcoming James Watrous Gallery exhibition, use somewhat unconventional means to achieve their artistic ends: Where Sasso uses fiber art to create installations that transform...
by Andy Adams, Clarissa Bonet, Jess T. Dugan, Tytia Habing, Jon Horvath, Julie Renee Jones, Dave Jordano, Nathan Pearce, Barry Phipps, Jason Vaughn, Lindley Warren | Aug 13, 2018 | Magazine Article
There’s a quote I scribbled on a yellow piece of paper and taped to my bedroom wall back when I was twenty-five-years old: “A place is artistic if an artist lives there.” At the time, this idea was really important to me because I felt like a failure for never leaving...
by Judith Woodburn | Oct 12, 2017 | Magazine Article
Perched on a hilltop in LaFarge, Star Cemetery is just across the road from artist Terese Agnew’s house. Over the past decade, Agnew has visited the tiny cemetery almost daily on her walks, finding inspiration in its sweeping views of the Kickapoo River Valley. But in...
by Diane Bacha | May 1, 2017 | Magazine Article
Gerit Grimm and Gina Litherland are contemporary Wisconsin artists inspired by the imaginations of long ago. Though one works in clay and the other in oil, one in unglazed and earthy monotone and the other in lusciously lacquered color, both turn to folklore and...