by John O. "Jack" Holzhueter, Andy Kraushaar, Michael Lesy, Martha Glowacki | Oct 31, 2014 | Videos
Photographer, archivist, visual thinker, bricoleur: Paul Vanderbilt devoted his life to understanding the way images convey meaning. Learn more about this brilliant, complex man with our three panelists: Jack Holzhueter, who worked closely with Vanderbilt at Wisconsin...
by Lewis Koch | Aug 26, 2014 | Magazine Article
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 was a proselytizer for “the notion of...
by Jody Clowes, Donald Friedlich | May 14, 2014 | Magazine Article
It was a chance meeting on a ski run that first piqued Donald Friedlich’s interest in making jewelry. At the age of twenty, unsure of his direction, Friedlich spent a winter in Stowe, Vermont, skiing and contemplating his future. One day on the slopes, as he recalls,...
by Michael Kienitz, Kevin Miyazaki, Craig Schreiner, Jason Smith | Mar 27, 2014 | Videos
The Wisconsin Academy welcomed photographers Michael Kienitz, Kevin Miyazaki, and Craig Schreiner to discuss their own work and reflect on the way photographic images can be used to record personal narrative, document conflict, capture a cultural landscape, and share...
by Melanie Herzog | Feb 20, 2014 | Magazine Article
Ida Wyman, now 87 and a relative newcomer to Madison, may not be familiar to younger Wisconsinites. But it’s likely her post-war photographs will strike a chord with older ones. Wyman began at an early age to photograph everyday scenes of her native New York City and...
