Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli is Madison-area mixed media artist, art workshop leader, and author. She holds a degree in expressive arts therapy and mental health counseling, and she’s currently an […]
New city mural program creates opportunities for artists
Up and down State Street, and throughout downtown, artists and creators have used plywood boards covering storefronts as canvases for their work. The boards were erected after widespread vandalism and […]
When “public art” overlaps with “street art”
Karin Wolf, who oversees the City of Madison’s arts grant programs as an arts administrator, wrote in the latest issue of Our Lives Magazine about the tension between rigid city […]
Madison’s “Mural Alley” Takes Shape
The Hermina Street alley behind the Madison East Shopping Center has always had a scruffy, unwelcoming, maybe even downright unsavory appearance. Plain brick walls, dumpsters, locked back doors to the […]
A Tone Madison audio extra: The road ahead for public art in Madison
In our latest audio edition of a Tone Madison story, Chris Lay reads aloud Reid Kurkerewicz’s recent reflection on the state of public art in Madison, which also featured a bunch […]
The meaning of that “You Are Beautiful” mural
If you’ve headed down East Washington Avenue toward the Capitol lately, you’ve likely seen a new mural proclaiming “you are beautiful.” It’s on the side of art space and venue […]
