Opening Reception for Current Exhibitions: Hannah O.B, Jennifer B., Sami S., Sam W. & Terri M

Jennifer Bastian uses fibers, sculptural and photographic processes to make objects related to the labor of parenting, grieving, and making community. Bastian received her BFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was a finalist for the Women’s Forward Fund Forward Art Prize in 2022, and her 2021 work "I have missed you (Community Care is the Intimacy I Need)" was included in the 2022 Wisconsin Biennial at the Museum of Wisconsin Art and given an Award of Merit from Wisconsin Visual Artists. Bastian is the Thurber Park Artist in Residence in Madison for 2024-2026. Pleasure is Power is celebration of Pleasure Art and Activism. Through photographs, film, and collage, Schalk and Waldron invite audiences into intimate and public spaces where pleasure is a liberatory and political act that centers joy and self-love as tools for a collective revolution. Sami Schalk is a fat, Black, queer, disabled pleasure artist and professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison who celebrates and centers pleasure as a tactic for healing and liberation. Sam Waldron is a visual artist based in Madison, Wisconsin whose work centers queer joy, fat liberation, disability pride, and pleasure activism. Terri Messinides has been an artist since the mid-1990s, first working in clay and now in paper and fiber. Terri uses handmade paper, and collage to explore the issues of social justice, environmental concerns and feminism and women’s rights. The collage series In the Pejorative examines women’s place in the world in relation to the pejorative words specific to women that are frequently aimed at girls and women, young and old. The English language has over 5,000 words that demean, deride and disrespect women and the lexicon of these words keeps growing. Hannah O’Hare Bennett is an artist, experimental papermaker and educator based in Madison WI. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Kansas (1998) and an MFA in Design Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison (2017). Between those degrees, she worked as a farmer, Peace Corps Volunteer (Ecuador, 2004-2006), and produce manager, manual labor that informs her current subject matter and manner of creating art. Since completing her MFA she has had residencies at institutions such as Women's Studio Workshop, Penland School of Craft, Playa Summer Lake, and Studioworks at the Tides Institute, taught papermaking workshops at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Pyramid Atlantic, the Paper and Book Intensive, the Morgan Conservatory and more, and exhibited work in group and solo shows across the country. Free admission, donations accepted and welcomed.

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