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Selection Committee

Exhibitions by contemporary Wisconsin visual artists are a core component of the James Watrous Gallery's programming.

Belonging

Thirty scarves I finished for whom I’m not sure nights awake knit knit pearl. I wrapped them around my neck gave each one a name used the wool of rare alpaca llamas

“I go back to the hospital and there’s an orange on the bedside table. A big one, and pink. He’s smiling: ‘I got a gift. Take it.’” —From the book Voices from Chernobyl, as retold on the radio show This American Life

BUON FRESCO

Sylvia Gilbertson

"I want a fresco," Michel's mother Mireille announced one autumn afternoon. She had just emerged from a three-day migraine, and her face was flushed, her eyes burning and glittery, her little hands pale as candles.