Libraries are all about permanence, serving as indexed archives of culture. The written word, photographs, moving images in physical or digital media, written musical scores, musical recordings, these are the bread and butter of libraries. But what about the ephemeral, the fleeting or the one of a kind? How do you archive those kinds of […]
Fantasy Coffin Carpenter is Bubbler Artist in Residence
Have you ever put any thought into the type of vessel that you’d want to be buried in? Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t – but this next story will make you think about your burial in a different way. Our next guest is the Owner of the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop in Teshie, Ghana […]
Rachal Duggan: The Bubbler Artist In Residence
Rachal Duggan is an illustrator, comic artist, instructor and live-drawer. Her work features deceptively simple line drawings, with subjects ranging from portraits of famous women authors, political cartoons and drawings of pickle jars. She’s been published in Driftless Magazine, The Pitchfork Review and Isthmus. She’s the Madison Central Library’s Artist in Residence for the months […]
Kim Charles Kay: Nov-Dec Bubbler Artist In Residence
Multimedia artist Kim Charles Kay grew up in Olympia, Washington and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. In between those two, she’s worked and exhibited her art up and down the U.S. East and West Coasts, Lexington, Kentucky and Rome, Italy. This month and next, she sets up shop here in the Madison Central Library, […]
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 […]
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