by Jason Smith | Mar 3, 2021 | Magazine Article
The Wisconsin Academy community was saddened by the news of Ruth Kohler’s death on November 14, 2020. Ruth was a long-time supporter of the Academy and its arts programming. She was named a Wisconsin Academy Fellow in 1989 for her monumental contributions to Wisconsin...
by Steven Potter | Jul 14, 2017 | Magazine Article
Around the turn on a cobbled path that runs through Madison’s Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Peter Krsko perches on top of a ladder next to a tree, holding a handful of what look like unnumbered yardsticks. As visitors pass by, they pause and watch him add a few of the...
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...
by Lynne Harper | Nov 8, 2016 | Magazine Article
The search for the knowable has led to remarkable discovery and innovation in the sciences. At the same time, this unrelenting quest for knowledge has also fostered in many of us a sense of discomfort with ambiguity—and a detachment from our often-messy internal and...
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...
