{"id":981,"date":"2025-01-23T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=197870"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:57:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:57:41","slug":"swept-over-the-rug-a-commemoration-of-caretaking","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/event\/swept-over-the-rug-a-commemoration-of-caretaking\/","title":{"rendered":"SWEPT OVER THE RUG \u2014 Michelle Grabner + Brad Killam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 23 \u2013 April 5 , 2025 | Artist Reception: Thursday, Feb 6 | 5:00\u20138:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>A visually arresting and wonderfully provocative installation. Bronze-leafed wash buckets to porcelain toilet paper rolls to Wisconsin landscape paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle\u2019s tableau of custodial implements memorializes janitorial labor. A concept that emerged from her artist-in-residency experience at Kohler Co. Michelle transforms these elements in silverleaf, bronze, and porcelain in celebration of their design and use.<\/p>\n<p>The unexpected juxtaposition of Brad\u2019s\u00a0bucolic landscapes causes us to wonder\u00a0about our own custodial practices and\u00a0responsibilities in the world around us \u2014 and reflects the couple\u2019s shared life as dedicated artists, teachers, and parents.<\/p>\n<p>Grabner\u2019s interplay between material experimentation and conceptual rigor is contrasted with Killam\u2019s enthusiasm for traditional genre painting and its histories.\u00a0While their ongoing engagement with\u00a0their daily environments may yield different approaches to artmaking, art as a lived experience is something they both value.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Grabner is a Guggenheim Fellow and Crown Family Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Brad is a professor at\u00a0College of DuPage. These domestic\u00a0partners have collaborated on artwork, curating, and publishing since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri 12-6pm | Sat 10am-2pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 23 \u2013 April 5 , 2025 | Artist Reception: Thursday, Feb 6 | 5:00\u20138:00pm. A visually arresting and wonderfully provocative installation. Bronze-leafed wash buckets to porcelain toilet paper rolls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":982,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[35],"class_list":["post-981","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-art-exhibit","cat_art-exhibit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}