The Art Exposé are 15-minute presentations in which Gallery Staff, Faculty, or Gallery Interns discuss a mystery art object in the gallery collection. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the results of object-based learning and support our gallery team. …
September 18, 2023 through February 8, 2024 Opening Reception: September 14, 2023, 5-7pm UWM Gallery Night Thursday, September 21st from 4-7pm Art Works places the spotlight on curation and research practices at the UWM Art Collection and Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. …
“Dung is vital for survival in the grassland. The most popular material for fuel is yak-dung, mostly for strong, quick cooking. Just like the Tibetan language has fine-grained terminology for the different stages of maturity of these animals, so as …
Dr. Hilary Snow, UWM Teaching Faculty in Art History and Asian Studies, will present on the topic of sets and collections, as exemplified in Japanese art, books, and prints from the library collection. Saturday, April 29, 2023, 12 pm – …
Object ID: 2009.002.24 Object Name: Textile Artist/Maker: Unrecorded Bamana artist Culture: Bamana People, Mali Title: Bamana “Mudcloth” Medium: Woven textiles and resist-dye Dimension Details: H-67 W-45 inches On Campus Collection: UWM Art Collection Gift of Mark and Mary Jo Wentzel …
Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Open Parameters—late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s Chinese calligraphy and painting from the Zhou Cezong’s donation curated by Jingwei Zeng. This exhibition explores the diversity …
Please join us Thursday, April 13th at 5PM for the graduate thesis exhibition opening of Negotiating Authenticity: Reproducing the Past for the Present curated by David Symanzik-Stock. The exhibit will be open until May 11th, 2023 and, as always, the …
Folk-arts for peace: HemisFair ’68 and the Cultural Olympics in México’s 1968 Olympiad during the Global Cold War Guest: Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) This lecture will center on folk …
Read Professor Tiffany’s latest post on the website, AGENART, https://agenart.org/blog/.
In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white …
UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present. | To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.