Art Department Faculty Exhibition Catalogues

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About the Collection

In 1974, the UW-Madison Art Department and the Elvehjem Art Center (later the Elvehjem Museum of Art, now the Chazen Museum of Art) began a regular series of group art exhibitions showcasing the works of Art Department faculty. Occurring every four years, the exhibitions provided, and continue to provide, an opportunity for faculty to display their creative work to students and the community at large.

Each exhibition has been documented with a printed catalogue, and these catalogues are presented here in full-text online. The catalogues are a rich historical record, containing remarks by the museum director and department chair, photographs of faculty with statements and biography, and illustrated with photographs of the exhibited works themselves. From catalogue to catalogue, one can chart the evolving nature of the artists' work, the department's faculty, and the creative atmosphere of the UW-Madison campus.

For an even broader overview of the history of the Art Department from its inception, see Arthur Hove's essay, Exploring Artistic Potential: An Informal History of the Department of Art, at pages 11-19 of the 1999 catalogue. Also see Hove's essay: Taking Inventory: Women Faculty in the Art Department (reproduced here with permission of the author), which appeared in the Art Department Newsletter the following year.

Art Department Faculty Exhibition Catalogues

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2008
2008 UW-Madison Art Department faculty exhibition catalogue
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AFacEx2008

Fifty-one artists (27 current faculty, 17 emeriti, and 7 department affiliates) exhibited their work from January 26 through March 30, 2008, at the Chazen Museum of Art. The 2008 art faculty exhibition is documented in an illustrated catalogue with forewords written by Russell Panczenko, Director of the Chazen Museum, and Elaine Scheer, Chair of the Art Department, along with notes contributed by Michael Jay McClure.

2003
UW-Madison Department of Art, Quadrennial Exhibition
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExQuad2003

Russell Panczenko, Director of the Elvehjem Museum of Art, and Jim Escalante, Chair of the Art Department, introduce this catalogue presenting the most recent work of current and emeritus faculty, affiliates, and staff of Tandem Press. Jim Escalante's foreword also summarizes faculty transitions since 1999.

1999
UW-Madison Department of Art, Sesquicentennial Celebration
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExSesqui

Marking the 150th anniversary of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this catalogue reflects on the Department of Art and its history via essays by Laurie Beth Clark, Professor and Chair of the department, and Arthur Hove, historian of the arts on the UW-Madison campus. Russell Panczenko, Elvehjem Director, contributed a forward; and 40 artists are represented through photos, statements, and biographies.

1994/5
UW-Madison Department of Art, Faculty Exhibition
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExFacEx1995

The work of 28 faculty, 2 staff and 11 emeriti are represented in the catalogue for the sixth quadrennial faculty exhibition held December 9, 1994 through February 12, 1995. Russell Panczenko, Director of the Elvehjem Museum of Art, and Truman Lowe, Chair of the Department of Art, provide opening remarks and acknowledgements.

1990/1
UW-Madison Department of Art, Faculty Exhibition
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExFacEx1991

Russell Panczenko acknowledges the 20th anniversary of the Elvehjem Museum of Art in his introduction to this catalogue for the fifth Department of Art Exhibition. Phil Hamilton, Chair of the Art Department, contributes remarks from the department; and catalogue entries document recent work of 43 artists (faculty, staff and emeriti).

1986
UW-Madison Department of Art, Views 86: the art faculty
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExViews86

Views 86, the fourth quadrennial art faculty exhibition, showcases works produced between 1982 and 1986 which faculty felt were most representative of their artistic directions during the period. Bruce M. Breckenridge, Chairman of the Art Department, and Russell Panczenko, Director of the Elvehjem Museum of Art, provide a foreword and acknowledgements.

1982
UW-Madison Department of Art, Art Faculty Exhibition
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExFacEx1982

N. Wayne Taylor, Chairman of the Department of Art, and Katherine Harper Mead, Director of the Elvehjem Museum of Art, introduce this catalogue. Thirty-eight art faculty are represented by works in a range of media from silverpoint drawing to steel.

1978
UW-Madison Department of Art, New Art Works: Department of Art Faculty Exhibition
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExNewArt

An innovative exhibition catalogue format was employed for the second art faculty exhibition. Thirty-five individual postcards depict and describe the works of the faculty, and a folding envelope conveys the foreword of Eric McCready, Director of the Elvehjem Art Center, and the remarks of Phil Hamilton, Chairman of the Department of Art.

1974
UW-Madison Department of Art, Department of Art Faculty Exhibition: celebrating the 125th anniversary/the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Arts.AExFacEx125th

The year 1974 was the 125th anniversary of the founding at Madison of the University of Wisconsin. It also marked the first extensive group exhibition on campus displaying the work of faculty of the UW-Madison Art Department. The exhibit was held at the Elvehjem Art Center, itself inaugurated only four years earlier. This collaboration of department and museum began a tradition of regular art faculty exhibitions that continues to the present day. This original exhibit catalogue contains remarks from Chancellor Edwin Young, Elvehjem Art Center Director Millard F. Rogers, Jr., and Chairman L. E. Moll of the Department of Art. Professor Phil Hamilton designed and supervised the printing of the catalogue, which contains faculty biographies and photographs of their work.

Thanks go to the following for their contributions to this digital collection: the UW-Madison Art Department; Chazen Museum of Art; Arthur Hove, Special Assistant to the Chancellor Emeritus; the Kohler Art Library, and UW Digital Collections Center.

Technical Note

Please note that full-text searching for the electronic-facsimile texts in our collections is based on uncorrected OCR (Optical Character Recognition) results. While such text is often highly accurate, it will contain errors that may affect your search results. In particular, texts with the following characteristics are particularly prone to error (in some cases, accuracy for such texts is so low that we have decided not to attempt to provide full-text searching):

• Hand-written texts;
• Texts that contain diacritics;
• Texts that contain non-Latin scripts;
• Texts that contain obsolete characters (including the "long S" [looks like an "f"]);
• Texts that are printed in a font in which the letters are difficult for the software to differentiate.