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Fulford & Shopsin | A Conversation with Alec Soth | Meiselas | Rathman | Gallery Talk with Brad Zellar
Lesy | Talk by Brad Zaller | Workshop with Brad Zellar | The Goggles | MANIAC Lunchtime Talk
Strand | Student Showcase Event: Slide Show and Tell


Guest Artists Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin*

photographer and publisher | graphic designer, illustrator, and author

DATE

  Wednesday, September 10

TIME

  4:30 – 5:45 pm

LOCATION

  Room L160
Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue

DescripTION

 

Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a contributing editor at Blind Spot magazine, and frequent lecturer at universities. Monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs For $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), and Hotel Oracle (2013). He is co-editor, with Gregory Halpern, of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014), and co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014).

Tamara Shopsin is a graphic designer and illustrator whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Good, Time, Wired, and Newsweek. She is the author of the memoir Mumbai, New York, Scranton, designer of the 5 Year Diary, and co-author with Jason Fulford of the children’s book This Equals That (2014). She is also a cook at her family’s restaurant in New York.




A Conversation with Alec Soth about his current MMoCA exhibition From Here to There with MMoCA director Stephen Fleischman


DATE

  Saturday, September 13

TIME

  6:30 – 7:30 pm

LOCATION

  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA)
227 State Street
MMoCA event: $10 MMoCA Nights admission/free

 

   



Guest Artist Susan Meiselas*

documentary photographer

DATE

  Wednesday, September 24

TIME

  4:30 – 5:45 pm

LOCATION

  Room L160
Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue

DESCRIPTION

 

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer who lives and works in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), and Encounters with the Dani (2003)She has co-edited two published collections: El Salvador, Work of 30 Photographers (1983) and Chile from Within (1990), rereleased as an e-book in 2011, and also co-directed two films: Living at Risk (1985) and Pictures from a Revolution (1991) with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow.




Guest Artist David Rathman*

painter and multimedia artist

DATE

  Wednesday, October 8

TIME

  4:30 – 5:45 pm

LOCATION

  Room L160
Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue

DESCRIPTION

  David Rathman is a multimedia artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Primarily a painter, Rathman's work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Milan. In addition to his paintings Rathman has produced limited edition books and prints, and has created several original films. Rathman's work is in numerous public and private collections including The Walker Art Center, MN, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, and The Getty Museum, CA. Rathman is represented by Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, and Martin Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis.



Gallery Talk with Brad Zellar: "A LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOM ODYSSEY"

 

DATE

  Friday, October 10

TIME

  6:30 – 7:00 pm

LOCATION

  Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
MMoCA event: Free admission to all.

DESCRIPTION

 

Brad Zellar will talk about the experience of working and traveling with Alec Soth. More information on this event here.




Guest Speaker Michael Lesy*

author and professor of literary journalism at Hampshire College

DATE

  Wednesday, October 15

TIME

  4:30 – 5:45 pm

LOCATION

  Room L160
Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue

DESCRIPTION

  Michael Lesy, professor of literary journalism, received a B.A. in theoretical sociology at Columbia University, an M.A. in American social history at the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in American cultural history at Rutgers University.

He has published 13 books of history, biography, and narrative nonfiction. Professor Lesy's most recent book, Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910 (2013), written in collaboration with his wife, Lisa Stoffer, was inspired by the New York Public Library's Buttolph Menu Collection.

Many of his books have been based on historic photographs, gathered in archives; several have been based on oral histories, gathered during fieldwork. Professor Lesy's first book, Wisconsin Death Trip, has remained in print since 1973. Professor Lesy's book, Murder City (2007), grew out of a Hampshire College tutorial.

Professor Lesy's books have been made into operas, plays, dance performances, and films. In 2007, the United States Artists Foundation named Professor Lesy its first Simon Fellow. In 2013, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.



Talk by Brad Zellar:“House of Coates Revisited: Lester B. Morrison, Little Brown Mushroom, and Other Lost Broken Men”


DATE

  Saturday, October 18

TIME

  5:30 pm

LOCATION

  Community Room
Madison Central Library
201 West Mifflin Street

DESCRIPTION

  Wisconsin Book Festival event. Click here for more details.



Workshop with Brad Zellar:“How Many Words is a Picture Really Worth? Writing From Photographs”


DATE

  Sunday, October 19

TIME

  11:00 am – 2:00 pm

LOCATION

  The Bubbler
Madison Central Library
201 West Mifflin Street

DESCRIPTION

  Wisconsin Book Festival event, in partnership with FlakPhoto. Registration is required. For more details about the workshop, including how to register, click here.



Guest Artists The Goggles (Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons)*

interactive, immersive storytellers

DATE

  Wednesday, October 22

TIME

  4:30 – 5:45 pm

LOCATION

  Room L160
Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue

DESCRIPTION

 

The Goggles: Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons are award-winning authors, artists and creative directors. They have spent most of their professional lives telling stories in compelling new ways, creating unique books, magazines and television spots. They are most known for their award-winning work with Adbusters Magazine.  

They were creative collaborators on the book Design Anarchy, and in 2008 they co-authored the groundbreaking I Live Here. This four-volume collection, often described as a “paper documentary,” incorporated art, writing and graphic novels to tell stories about some of the world’s most troubled regions. The book was on numerous top ten book lists, including the Los Angeles Times, Canadian Booksellers Association and January Magazine bestseller lists.

Winners of  3 Webby Awards, the Goggles have also produced major international advocacy campaigns for TV Turnoff Week,  Buy Nothing Day and the Blackspot Sneaker, listed as one of the New York Times’“Best Ideas”. Their work has been featured in more than sixty publications, on CNN and MTV, as well as in documentaries for the BBC and PBS.




Madison Area Network for Innovation and Collaboration (MANIAC) Lunchtime Talk with Alec Soth and Brad Zellar


DATE

  Wednesday, October 29

TIME

  11:30 am – 12:45 pm

LOCATION

  Gordon Commons
770 West Dayton Street
Registration recommended: go.wisc.edu/f6mqhm


DeCRIPTION

  Photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar, the Fall 2014 UW Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Artists in Residence, will discuss their work in the context of their own personal biographies. 



Guest Artist Ginger Strand*

author

DATE

  Wednesday, November 12

TIME

  4:30 – 5:45 pm

LOCATION

  Room L160
Elvehjem Building
800 University Avenue


DESCRIPTION

  Ginger Strand grew up in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, but mostly on a farm in Michigan. She is the author of three books: Flight, a novel, Inventing Niagara, the untold story of America's waterfall, and Killer on the Road, a history of the interstate highway system told through the stories of the killers who have haunted it. She has published essays and fiction in many places, including Harper'sThe Believer,The Iowa ReviewThe New England Review and the New York Times, as well as This Land and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. A former fellow in the Behrman Center for the Humanities at Princeton, she has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, the Eisenhower Foundation, and the American Antiquarian Society, as well as residency grants from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Center for Land Use Interpretation, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She lives in New York City, but spends a lot of time on the road. 



(Slide)Show and Tell: An Evening of Visual Storytelling


DATE

  Wednesday, December 10

TIME

  6:00 pm

LOCATION

 

Fredric March Play Circle Theater
Memorial Union
800 Langdon Street

Description

  To wrap up the fall semester, the students of photographer Alec Soth and writer Brad Zellar's class "Truth, Lies, Memory, and Imagination: The Photograph as Story" will be presenting a live variety show of their final projects. The evening will feature performance pieces, visual narratives, local history, family yarns, and perhaps even some music. Free and open to the public.