Artist Hannah O’Hare Bennett takes familiar objects and materials and makes them feel wild. She creates pincushions with unruly tufts of fur, books that turn into messy spirals, and embroidery that looks rough and brittle. The work draws a lot of inspiration from the materials that people source from the natural environment. In a way, Bennett’s […]
Writing towards the strange with Andy Gricevich
The strange can take on many forms in Andy Gricevich’s poetry. Working with weird music selections in the background and drawing inspiration from reading subjects such as philosophy and biology, the Madison-based writer is bound to get results that feel bizarre and boundary-pushing. But he doesn’t necessarily want readers to see his work that way. […]
Rachal Duggan’s universe of doodles
If you’ve looked at Tone Madison any time in the past year, you’ve probably seen the artwork of Rachal Duggan. Her illustrations are almost always black-and-white line drawings. They’ve appeared in publications including the Chicago Reader, Our Lives Magazine, The Pitchfork Review, and Isthmus. She can often be seen at live events, doing custom live portraits of people’s butts […]
Campaign to Support Making Spaces Program in MMSD
The Bubbler at Madison Public Library, Madison Metropolitan School District, and the Foundation for Madison Public Schools have teamed up to support maker education in our schools! Brian Standing is joined in the studio by Rebecca Millerjohn, Youth Services Librarian, Madison Public Library – Sequoya and Jennifer Milne-Carroll, Library Media Technology Specialist, Whitehorse Middle School. […]
What federal funding means for public libraries
Just before Donald Trump’s inauguration, The Hill reported that his administration is planning to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Together, these two agencies have provided millions of dollars to support art projects across the country since they were created in the mid 1960s. In fact, since 2010 […]
Direct Messages
Madison Public Library’s bubbler program likes to break the rules about what you can do in a library. Each month we check in with the Bubbler’s resident artists to find out what things they’re making, creating or showing off. This week, we have artist Faisal Abdul’Allah, who’s been working with Madison area teens on a […]