Dig deep into the Madison Public Library’s website, and you’ll find order forms for some items you might not expect to find at a library. Popsicle sticks with velcro dots. Maple hardwood planks. Silkscreening materials. Tiny little robots. Catapults. These are some of the ingredients the Library’s Bubbler crew have put together in packets called […]
Social Good Summit: Doing Good Work to Build Communities
There’s no shortage of “leadership seminars” out there that purportedly aim to get you earning big money and success climbing the corporate ladder. There’s also plenty of conventions and conferences dedicated to selling the shiniest, newest product. Why, though, are there so few opportunities to get people who are doing good work to build their […]
Jennifer Bastian: Photo-Archivist of Emotions
Jennifer Bastian calls herself a photographer and an emotional archivist. She has committed to taking photographs every day to make contact with people she knows and people she’s meant to meet. She’ll be occupying the Madison Bubbler Room this month as the Madison Public Library’s Artist in Residence for the month of August, 2017. Jennifer […]
Richie Morales: Painting Is My First New Language
Richie Morales taught himself painting as a child growing up in Guatemala. Now residing in Madison, Morales calls painting “his new first language,” saying he now paints “with the intensity of a scream to crack open calluses of insensitivity and oblivion, to nail puncture effervescent bubbles of privilege and overconsumption.” He’ll be the latest artist […]
Catching up on Madison’s public funding for music
This month brings two music events that are supported with public funds from the City of Madison. The first, coming up June 15 through 18, is the inaugural Between The Waves music conference and festival (previously announced under the name Madison Songwriter Conference and Festival), and the second is the annual Make Music Madison event […]
Young Space Exhibition at the Central Library
Denver, Colorado and Madison, Wisconsin both exist in the vast, nebulous forgotten land known as “Flyover Country” to jetsetters between the U.S.’s coastal capitals of cultural privilege, New York and Los Angeles. Together With, a collaborative exhibit between Denver’s Hyperlink collective and the currently Wisconsin-based Young Space project seeks to collapse the 964 miles between […]