Intercambios: Art, Stories, and Comunidad is the title of a new exhibit on display in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, in Nancy Nicholas Hall on the UW Madison Campus. The exhibit is a display of collaborative works between artists from Madison, Wisconsin, and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Roberto Torres Mata is one of the artists with work on display in the exhibit.
In this edition of Radio Chipstone, Mata tells contributor Gianofer (JON nah fer) Fields how his work as a printmaker translated to working with textiles.
About the host
Roberto Torres Mata is an artist who specializes in printmaking. He is the winner of the 2021 Russell and Paula Panczenko Master of Fine Arts Prize.
Gianofer (JON nah fer) Fields is an Art Historian and Material Culture contributor and curates the Radio Chipstone series.
Fields also hosts Refrangible, available on Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes or wherever else you get your podcasts.
The project is hosted by the School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and funded by the Chipstone Foundation; a decorative arts foundation whose mission is preserving and interpreting their collection, as well as stimulating research and education in the decorative arts.