Faculty Exhibition

Name: Faculty Exhibition
Start: 2020-01-31T00:00:00
End: 2020-03-16T00:00:00
Location: Chazen Museum of Art

Jan 31, 2020 to Mar 15, 2020

Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706

January 2, 2020

9:23 AM

Jean Laurenz

To celebrate 50 years of being a staple in the university’s art community, the Chazen put out the call to UW-Madison faculty for exhibition entries. Acknowledging that artwork continues to overlap with numerous academic departments and disciplines, the museum wants to showcase projects from university staff who use art as a medium for both teaching and research. From art history to dance and creative writing, the exhibits will explore relationships between the work of the artist and the works of Chazen’s collections or public spaces.

A message from the Chazen: At the Chazen, the health and safety of our visitors, staff, and docents is always our top priority. We are working closely with UW–Madison leadership to make the best decisions for our community.

As of this writing, the University campus remains open, though students are being asked to stay home and will resume their classes via alternate delivery starting March 23.

For now, the Chazen is also open, and offers a quiet, contemplative space that may provide some moments of solace and diversion in this stressful time. To help slow the spread of COVID-19 we have decided on the following changes:

Museum Hours:

Beginning March 23, we will move to reduced hours:

11 a.m.–5 p.m., daily.

During the University’s spring break, March 14–22, we will be open our regular hours.

Café Hours:

The Chazen Café is open daily 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cancelled public events: As you may have seen in previous announcements, we have cancelled public and group events.

This is a fluid and evolving situation, and we will update plans on a daily basis via our website and social media.

For the latest information from campus, visit http://covid19.wisc.edu .

press release: February 1 to May 10, 2020. 5:30–7:30 p.m., 1/31. Opening reception.

Every four years, the Chazen showcases art by UW–Madison faculty. A tradition since the museum opened, the show has usually included only faculty and emeriti from the art department. In celebration of the Chazen’s 50th anniversary in 2020, and in acknowledgement that art-making increasingly crosses disciplines and departments, Faculty Exhibition 2020 welcomed proposals from all departments across the campus that utilize art-making in their teaching and research. In addition, rather than confining the show to a single gallery, the exhibition showcases parts of the collection and buildings that are often overlooked. Projects explore relationships between the artist’s own work and specific artworks in the museum’s collection, or the artist’s own work and the museum’s public spaces and architecture.

Proposals were reviewed by an outside juror, Gary Garrido Schneider, director of the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey. A total of 31 submissions were accepted from 26 artists representing 10 different departments on campus, including art, dance, Asian languages and music. Highlights from the show will include a performance piece in which a meal inspired by the collection will be staged in the museum’s galleries (Spatula & Barcode, Art Department), dance performances that will lead visitors though both buildings (Li Chiao-Ping, Vilas Research Professor, Dance Department), cut-glass typographic forms above the bridge over East Campus Mall (Helen Lee, assistant professor and head of glass, Art Department) and a presentation of Indian manuscripts alongside Indian works from the collection (Anthony Cerulli, associate professor, Asian Languages and Cultures department).

All of the Chazen Museum of Art’s 50th anniversary year activities are supported by a grant from the UW–Madison Anonymous Fund, with additional support from the Office of the Chancellor.