Wisconsin Triennial 2010

July 22nd, 2010 admin No comments

Actual Size Artworks, Gail Simpson and Aris Georgiades from Stoughton, Wisconsin. Sculptural installation at the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial Exhibition, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin. Exhibition is open May 22-August 15, 2010. (Jim Escalante)Saturday was a beautiful sun filed day. When my colleague Gail Simpson called to ask advice on taking a photograph of Vanishing Point, Actual Size Artworks piece in the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, I jumped at the change to go outside and stroll along State Street. Vanishing Point stands 20 feet high and is on display inside the corner window area of the museum. Make sure to see the exhibition. More photographs of Vanishing Point can be seen by visiting the Actual Size Artwork photos at my site, or by going to Gail Simpson and Aris Georgiades’s Actual Size Artworks site.

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Sarah Noreen Hurtt: Finding Home

May 20th, 2010 admin No comments


Sarah Noreen Hurtt installed her Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the Commonwealth Gallery this May. You can visit a gallery of her work by clicking on the images above. Photographs by Jim Escalante

Julie VonDerVellen: Recollection: Tailored Narratives

May 6th, 2010 admin No comments

Julie VonDerVellen, Recollections: Tailored Memories

An Installation view of Julie VonDerVellen's Master of Fine Arts Exhibition


The pieces in Julie VonDerVellen’s Master of Fine Arts Exhbition tell stories about specific moments in her life when she can recall exactly what she was wearing. This body of work is a collection of garments that read as reinvented book structures. Each piece tells a significant story and is made entirely from paper. For VonDerVellen, memories evoke garments; garments evoke a memory. Follow this link to see a gallery of Julie Vondervellen’s work.

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Kim Cridler’s newest metal sculptural forms

April 29th, 2010 admin No comments

Detail image of Field Study number 2 by Kim Cridler

Detail image of Field Study number 2 by Kim Cridler

Kim Cridler’s newest work will be exhibited soon. I was able to take photographs of two of her newest pieces. You can see a gallery of Kim Cridler’s newest work at this link.

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Lisa Gralnick’s Gold Standard Catalog

March 30th, 2010 admin No comments

Lisa Gralnick The Gold Standard Bellevue Art Museum publication

After several months of work, a recent project is finally off the press. My colleague Lisa Gralnick, is having a major exhibition at the Bellevue Art Museum (March 18 – August 1, 2010) in Washington State. For more information about the show, visit Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard. Working on collaborative projects is always a pleasure. You can see a gallery of photographs of Lisa Gralnick’s work. Phil Kovacevich from Seattle, Washington designed the catalog.

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Cartonera! Cartoneros! They’re everywhere!

October 14th, 2009 admin No comments

Douglas Diegues  of YiYi Jambo Cartonera - Asunci--n, ParaguayCartonera artists from Cartonera Mexico, Elsoisa Cartonera and YiYi Jambo visited to make work in out type lab on Friday, October 9, 2009. You can see a gallery of photographs of the Cartonera book artists during the energetic and chaotic event. These book artists and publishers were in town as part of the Cartonera Publishers Conference and the Wisconsin Book Festival.

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Combat Paper workshop at UW-Madison Paper Lab

October 3rd, 2009 admin No comments

20091003_Combat-Paper-065October 1, 2 & 3 Drew Cameron, Robert Possehl and Drew Matott conducted a workshop for veterans as part of the Combat Paper project. You can learn more about the efforts at the Combat Paper Organization site. A link of photographs can be viewed from the Combat Paper workshop.

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Reservation calendar

August 25th, 2009 admin No comments


This calendar can be used to see if the beater room has been reserved. You can also use it to reserve any of the beaters. Please list the time and the beater that you want to reserve. jim
This calendar should be used to reserve the beater room.

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June 9th, 2009 admin No comments

For those of you wanting to learn about Search Engine Optimization, aka SEO, Photoshelter, a great photo hosting service, has an SEO Cookbook with excellent information to learn how to get found on the net. Get the Photoshelter SEO Cookbook here. Download this information and read it.

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Summer Session starts on June 15!

June 7th, 2009 admin No comments

View of the Papermaking facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The first day we will meet in 6451 Humanities to review the course. The remainder of the four weeks we will meet in Room 1009 of the Art Lofts, the location of the new paper lab. See you soon.