by Rafael Francisco Salas, Tom Berenz | Feb 15, 2016 | Magazine Article
I met Tom Berenz back in 2008 when we were teaching together at Ripon College. Both Wisconsin-based painters with backgrounds in traditional methods, we often met to discuss our views on painting and art. Since then we have exhibited together and from time to time...
by Helen Klebesadel | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
In terms of American Democracy, the arts are for everyone. They are not reserved for the wealthy, or for the well-endowed museum, the gallery, or the ever-subsidized regional professional theater. As America emerges into a different understanding of her strength, it...
by David Mladenoff | Oct 8, 2015 | Videos
From our pines and sugar maples in the north to our oaks in the south, we have more forest in Wisconsin today than at any other time in the last 100 years. Join us for an evening with ecologist David Mladenoff who will guide us through the vast and winding history of...
by Jody Clowes | Mar 18, 2015 | Magazine Article
You can draw a lake or paint the ocean, film a rainstorm or a blizzard, sculpt the contours of a river’s path. But how can you express the essence of water? It’s slippery. Definitions of water mostly describe what it isn’t: colorless, odorless, tasteless, transparent....
by Randall Berndt, Martha Glowacki | Dec 15, 2014 | Magazine Article
There was no way of knowing what a great success the James Watrous Gallery in Overture Center for the Arts would be when its doors opened on Sunday, September 19, in 2004. Located in downtown Madison, just steps from the Capitol Square, the high-profile gallery was...
