Overture Galleries Winter Reception
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Overture Center 201 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
media release: This season’s exhibitions examine how personal, family and cultural histories shape the ways we live and create. This season’s artists translate memory and identity into a variety of visual art forms. Each exhibition invites reflection on resilience, revealing that cultural heritage is continually renewed through art, storytelling and shared experience. Together, these works illuminate how creativity helps to shape belonging across generations and cultures.
Winter Galleries Reception: Friday, January 9, 2026 | 5:30-8:30pm, Rotunda Stage Artist Talks start at 6pm
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Sunday, March 8, 2026:
Gallery I: Entre Memorias y Nepantla, Ariana Gutierrez & Christie Tirado
Gallery II: Manifest Black, Marlon Howard Banks & Sharon L. Bjyrd
Gallery III: Where Do You Wander? Shlomit Cohen Kafri & Connie Yu
Rotunda Studio: Earthlings: Revisited
Jeanne C. Wilkinson
Rotunda Gallery: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 – Sunday, February 22, 2026
Portraits as Jazz/Improvisation in Sound; Improvisation in Form
Martel Chapman
Chapman’s work is a tribute to the creators of jazz music who have shaped and inspired him. Drawing from a culture that continues to influence art across the globe—from Africa to the wider world—his work explores improvisation in sound and improvisation in form.
Playhouse Gallery: Tuesday, November 25, 2025 – Sunday, February 22, 2026
Curated by Artdose Magazine: 2025 Indiana Green Invitational
Liala Amin, Amal Azzam, Geornica Daniels, Nehemiah R. Edwards, Gabriela Marván, Fernando Rico, Sonia Vasquez
The Indiana Green Invitational is an annual group exhibition featuring two-dimensional and three-dimensional works by artists living and working in the Midwest. This exhibition features significant contemporary works being created in today’s contemporary art landscape.

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