Anwar Floyd-Pruitt

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Casey Coolidge/courtesy the Chazen

A segment of the installation "SUPERNOVA: Charlotte and Gene’s Radical Imagination Station," by Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, at the Chazen Museum of Art.

Shake things up with a jolt of color and invention by walking through SUPERNOVA: Charlotte and Gene’s Radical Imagination Station, a temporary installation at the Chazen. The show is from Anwar Floyd-Pruitt, winner of the Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize, and it is a multimedia explosion of joy at self-expression. SUPERNOVA is both autobiography and a celebration of imagination. Lucky visitors can leave with a gift bag containing the pattern to make their own baby astronaut motif. The Chazen is open Tuesday-Friday, noon-5 pm; visitors must sign up for a 45-minute appointment slot in advance via Eventbrite. It's a "ticket," but it's free. The exhibit is on display through March 1, but note the museum will be closed Dec. 24-25 and from Dec. 31 to Jan. 26.

The Chazen is open on a limited basis Tuesday–Friday, 12–5 p.m. by appointment. The website is open 24/7. Closed 11/26, 12/24-25 and 12/31-1/26.

press release: SUPERNOVA: Charlotte and Gene’s Radical Imagination Station

Oct 13, 2020–Mar 1, 2021

The Russell and Paula Panczenko MFA Prize is offered by the museum in collaboration with the UW–Madison Art Department; the winner is selected by an outside juror.

The 2020 Panczenko Prize winner is Anwar Floyd-Pruitt. Floyd-Pruitt focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to art-making. Combining his BA in psychology from Harvard University and a BFA from UW–Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, Floyd-Pruitt served as visual arts coordinator for the therapeutic arts nonprofit organization Express Yourself Milwaukee. His recent projects include a body of work encouraging students to vote, a gun violence memorial sculpture garden, co-producing an interdepartmental performance art showcase, and leading puppet-making workshops at Madison area schools and arts organizations. His work Black Pain, an abstract trio of assemblage wall pieces, was featured in the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2013 in conjunction with 30 Americans.

The 2020 Panczenko Prize juror Glenn Adamson is a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. He was previously director of the Museum of Arts and Design, head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee.