Another article about our current exhibition "Loose Strife"

Michael Velliquette Transforms Cut Paper into Sculptural Human Forms

"Loose Strife" reception photos

The reception was a success and we thank everyone who came, the artists and OPEN for their contribution.

Edgewood College Gallery's director in the news

Here is a video featuring our director Paul Baker Prindle in Art City Looks blog from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Art City Looks: Paul Baker Prindle

New article about exhibiting artists Michael Velliquette and Amy Quan Barry.

Starting from scrap: Madison artist makes a statement with cut paper, fragments : 77-square

"Loose Strife" Exhibition Reception

Sponsored in part by OPEN Madison, the reception is scheduled for 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, Thursday, November 15, at the Edgewood College Gallery. 
This event is presented as part of the Year of the Arts at Edgewood College, a celebration of music, theatre and art for 2012-2013. Supporters of our Year of the Arts programming include the Kohler Foundation, BMO Harris Bank, the Madison Arts Commission, with additional funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board, DANE Arts with additional funds from the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Native Capital Investment, and the Ahrens-Washburn Community Fellows Program.

Meet the Artists of "Loose Strife"

Born in Saigon and raised on Boston’s north shore, Quan Barry is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she recently directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. The author of three books published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (Asylum, Controvertibles, and Water Puppets), her work has appeared in such journals as the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Ms., and the New Yorker, and among her awards are an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She is currently at work on a novel.
 
Michael Velliquette is a mixed media artist known for his dimensionally complex paper sculptures, installations, and drawings. Velliquette’s work is represented by DCKT Contemporary, New York and David Shelton Gallery, Houston. Velliquette was recently picked to be the Dane County artist representative for EUARCA+2012, an artist residency in Kassel, Germany. His museum exhibitions include Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Art and Design New York and Psychedelic at the San Antonio Museum of Art. Velliquette is currently a Faculty Associate in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Lecturer at Madison College. 

Detailed Information About Our Next Exhibition "Loose Strife"

The first exhibition in the BMO Harris Gallery Series, Loose Strife presents a series of works created through collaboration by the poet Quan Barry and the visual artist Michael Velliquette. In classical terms, the title of the exhibition stems from a translation of the Greek name Lysimachus, the name describing one who makes war, who literally “looses battle” on the world. In this context the works in the exhibition are inspired by the brutality of Aeschylus’ ancient Greek tragedy The Oresteia, an archetypal narrative of internecine conflict.