Gallery Exhibitions & Events
Working collaboratively--and with materials like thread, ink, video, photography, and ceramics--Nirmal Raja’s investigations can be intimate, beautiful, and wrenching. An interdisciplinary artist and curator, she carves a brave and questioning path via a persistent and focused practice.
Join the Wisconsin Academy staff and interdisciplinary artists Nirmal Raja and Millicent Kennedy on Thursday, October 17 at 5:00pm for a captivating virtual artists' conversation, Object as Muse and Material, online via Zoom.
Maureen Fritchen’s exhibition showcases the impact of consumerism on our environment. Fritchen uses industrial waste materials as her principal medium, repurposing non-biodegradable polyethylene foam (PE) used in a wide variety of packaging. While PE is technically recyclable, in practice there...
Nina Ghanbarzadeh’s art practice is rooted in the desire to share her personal experiences and understanding of the culture and history of Iran, where she was born. She often works with geometric patterns, calligraphic letters, clay, and the color turquoise, inspired by their importance in the...
Join Nina Ghanbarzadeh, Maureen Fritchen, and Wisconsin Academy staff to celebrate the opening of the exhibtions Tales of the Seated Cat and ...
Guest curated by Amal Azzam and Nayfa Naji, the exhibition Wherever Home Is will focus on the feeling of belonging and being at home. Azzam and Naji have been collaborating since 2019 as Fanana Banana; Fanana means ‘artist’ in Arabic, and Banana, as Naji says, “just gave it a goofy...
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James Watrous Gallery
3rd Floor, Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608.733.6633 x25