Fall 2022 Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) Newsletter

FALL 2022

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
FAISAL ABDU’ALLAH
DARK MATTER
Main Galleries • Sep 17, 2022–Apr 2, 2023
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DARK MATTER by British artist Faisal Abdu’Allah
explores cultural representation and the systems of
power that structure our experiences of the world.
The exhibition includes a selection of the artist’s most
celebrated series, as well as a reconstruction of Garden
of Eden (2003), an architectural installation the artist
created in collaboration with renowned architect Sir
David Adjaye. It is the first time that Garden of Eden
will be exhibited in the United States.
Exploring issues of privilege, exclusion, and the voyeuristic
gaze, Garden of Eden separates visitors based
on genetic traits—in this case, eye color—in order to
highlight our perceptions of difference and alienation.
With Garden of Eden, Abdu’Allah points to the privileges
conferred to certain people based on the nuances
of their genetic matter.
DARK MATTER also features a counter-monument
by Abdu’Allah, which he first conceived of in response
to debates about the role of monuments and their
removal from public view. His solution was to commission
artists of color to create new monuments that
represent their own aesthetics, histories, and experiences.
Commissioned by MMoCA, Blu³eprint was realized
in collaboration with the fine arts team at Quarra
Stone Company in Madison and Italy-based expert
stone carver and sculptor Martin Foot. The countermonument
is on view in front of MMoCA on State
Street.
EXHIBITION
CELEBRATION
FAISAL ABDU’ALLAH
DARK MATTER
Friday, Sep 16, 2022 • 5–8 PM
Artist talk • 6:30–7:30 PM
Join us for a special reception
marking the opening of Faisal
Abdu’Allah: DARK MATTER,
including a talk by the artist
at 6:30 PM in the Lecture Hall.
Lecture hall seating is limited,
so be sure to find your seat
right away.
The evening includes time
to explore the exhibition,
as well as music and a nonalcoholic
cash bar. Admission
is free. Masks are encouraged
indoors at MMoCA.
Blu³eprint has recently been accessioned
into MMoCA’s Permanent Collection,
thanks to a partial gift from Faisal
Abdu’Allah, Quarra Stone, and the Gabriele
Haberland Permanent Collection Fund.

WENDY RED STAR
Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
State Street Gallery • Nov 12, 2022–Feb 26, 2023
Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird is a traveling exhibition by multimedia artist
Wendy Red Star, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) tribe. Red Star’s work offers accounts
of American history that rectify the frequently flawed narratives about Native people. An avid
researcher, Red Star re-examines cultural artifacts and primary source historic imagery, and uses
them as the foundation for her beautifully annotated photographs and installations. The Children
of the Large-Beaked Bird exhibition provides an opportunity for adults and children to look at
history and representation with fresh eyes. As Red Star notes: “It is critical to preserve and pass
along culture, heritage, and shared values while also providing future generations with a sense of
identity, solidarity, and empowerment.”
EXHIBITION CELEBRATION
WENDY RED STAR
Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird
Friday, Dec 9, 2022 • 5–8 PM
You’re invited to a reception for Wendy Red Star: Apsáalooke: Children of the
Large-Beaked Bird. Beginning at 5 PM on Dec. 9, 2022, guests may view the
exhibition in the State Street Gallery and The Shop. Apsáalooke: Children of the
Large-Beaked Bird is a traveling exhibition curated by Laura Thompson of the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and celebrates the
career of Red Star, a multimedia artist and member of the Apsáalooke (Crow)
tribe. The reception will offer a welcome, live performance, and refreshments
at a non-alcoholic cash bar. Admission is free. Masks are encouraged indoors
at MMoCA.
COVER: Wendy Red Star, Déaxitchish/Pretty Eagle, 2014. Archival pigment print on photo paper and red ink 1880 Crow Peace Delegation,
in Washington D.C., original photograph by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ethnology. Déaxitchish/Pretty Eagle
(b.ca. 1846 – d. 1905) was a reservation-era leader who, by 1890, was recognized along with Plenty Coups as head chief of the Crow Tribe
from 1886 to 1903. Courtesy of the Artist. PAGE 2: Faisal Abdu’Allah, The Duppy Conqueror (triptych), 2017. Jacquard tapestries, 117 x 60
inches, each. Courtesy of the Artist. PAGE 3: Wendy Red Star, Apsáalooke Feminist #2, 2016. Full color print on phototex, 109 x 170 inches.
Courtesy of the Artist.
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UPCOMING & CURRENT
CHRISTINA RAMBERG
Vertical Amnesia
State Street Gallery • Mar 4–Jul 17, 2023
Taking its title from one of the artist’s signature
works in MMoCA’s collection, Vertical Amnesia
will center this often overlooked and at times
forgotten artist within the Chicago Imagist
group. Gaining visibility in this contemporary
moment, Christina Ramberg utilized a dizzying
amalgam of “found” visual materials—a singular
cartoon cel, sewing patterns, fabric grains
and textures, girdles and cinchers, wisps of hair
and fur—to create works that center on the forgotten,
concealed, or overlooked. Even her preferred
substrate of Masonite allowed Ramberg
to render her brushstrokes nearly invisible.
Providing a unique perspective on the world
of women and their clothing, her delicate works
have garnered great attention in recent years
for opening a gateway to discussing femininity,
femme, and the gaze. Often read as fetishistic
representations, the artist described her own
work as stemming from her own interest in
clothing and how it can be used to talk about
the female body.
2022 WISCONSIN TRIENNIAL
Ain’t I A Woman?
On view through Oct 9, 2022
State Street Gallery, The Shop, and the Lobby
The 2022 Wisconsin Triennial, Ain’t I A
Woman?, organized by Guest Curator Fatima
Laster, features Black female and femme artists
in Wisconsin who expand upon the nature
and scope of art production. The exhibition
highlights an intergenerational group of
women working across different disciplines,
including murals, printmaking, sculpture,
painting, performance, textiles, and more.
The theme of the 2022 Wisconsin Triennial is
influenced by abolitionist and women’s rights
advocate Sojourner Truth’s quote and author
bell hooks’ book on Black feminism, titled
Ain’t I A Woman? Laster’s exhibition draws
attention to the fact that most racial and gender-based
equity and inclusion opportunities
in the arts have been dominated by Black men
and white women to the exclusion of Black
women. Ain’t I A Woman? expands the discourse and highlights trailblazing women and their work.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
HOME
Henry Street Gallery • On view through Feb 19, 2023
Home is a multi-media exhibition that creates
conversations around concepts often
tied to the sense of home—memory, comfort,
loss, displacement, and reclamation.
Sometimes described as a state of mind,
home occupies both a physical and emotional
space. Each artist in the exhibition
examines how the concept of home can
alternate based on an individual’s perception,
simultaneously serving as a site of
renewal or rejection, longing or resistance.
Whether stemming from self-selected
removal or forced exile, each artist grapples
with the impact of displacement and
utilizes their work to provide a space of
meditation on the experience. Drawing
its title from Warsan Shire’s poem Home,
which is shared in the space, the exhibition
combines written and visual art.
Artists featured in Home include Lida Abdul, Marc Chagall, Mona Hatoum, Pao Houa Her, Bessie Scottie
Iquginnaaq, Tom Jones, Mohammed Omar Khalil, Louise Nevelson, Milton Resnick, Ben Shahn, and
Warsan Shire.
SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY
closeLISTENER(reverse, react, “desire”)
Imprint Gallery • On view through Mar 12, 2023
The fifth iteration of the artist’s DOG-
WHISTLE series, close LISTENER(reverse,
react, “desire”) is a multimedia installation that
uses rolling text and animated video to visualize
and contemplate loss. The dog whistle—a
sound that some humans can hear, but most
can’t—can prompt physical discomfort without
knowing the source, analogous to feelings of
grief without a clear origin and without a known
method of relief. Using poetry, an accompanying
30-minute sound piece, sculptural guides,
and the series signature of shocking blue light
and bold text, the artist prompts the viewer to
reflect on the nature of loss, both permanent and
impermanent.
PAGE 4: Christina Ramberg, Vertical Amnesia (detail), 1980. Acrylic, 47 3/4 x 35 5/8 inches. Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary
Art. Museum Purchase, through funds from George and Sally Johnson and the Rudolph and Louise Langer Fund. • Zari Williams, Miss Celie’s Blues I,
2022. Linoleum print on cotton rag paper. 11×15 inches. Courtesy of the Artist. PAGE 5: Mohammed Omar Khalil, Cinnamon, 1979. Intaglio, 7 3/4 x
8 3/4 inches. Gift of Warrington Colescott and Frances Myers, Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. • SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN
HOLLOWAY, shawne+michaelain+holloway+_+dog+whistle+2019+_+rose+close+up, 2019, digital image. Courtesy of the Artist.
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NEW ACQUISITIONS
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is honored to have welcomed five new acquisitions into the
permanent collection thanks to the generosity of supporters of the Museum Purchase Fund.
Between, an exhibition of photographs that depict the nuances of liminal space, prompted the Museum to
explore its collection of contemporary photography and add works by Hannah Price, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,
and Guanyu Xu.
night as a backdrop and a shroud by instilling a sense of
foreboding and unease. This series aims to challenge blackand-white
thinking and the negative associations (impurity,
sin, death, evil) tied to the word “black.” Through her
photographs, Price attempts to raise awareness of these
unfair assumptions and reveal this heavy burden carried
by Black men. Thank you to JoAnne Robbins for funding
this acquisition for the Permanent Collection.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya was born in 1982 in San Bernardino,
California. He received his BFA from New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts in 2004 and his MFA from the
University of California, Los Angeles, in 2016. Public
collections featuring Sepuya’s work include Museum of
Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York; International Center of Photography, New York; Irish
Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh; and now MMoCA.
Raised in Fort Collins, Colorado,
Hannah Price (b. 1986) is a photographic
artist and filmmaker primarily
interested in documenting relationships,
race politics, social perception and
misperception. Price is internationally
known for her project City of Brotherly
Love (2009-2012), a series of photographs
of the men who catcalled her on
the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014, Price
graduated from the Yale School of Art
MFA Photography program, receiving
the Richard Benson Prize for excellence
in photography. In her series, Cursed by
Night (2012), Price uses the darkness of
Although his work can appear digitally
manipulated, Sepuya centers the camera
lens to reveal the process of photography.
Each work is carefully developed
in his studio using mirrors, curtains,
and cutouts. The play of time, reflection,
and refraction create a complex
narrative about the space between what
is seen and how it came into existence.
MMoCA is grateful for the generosity of
Museum supporters who established the
Art Acquisition Fund held at the Madison
Community Foundation.
Guanyu Xu (b. 1993 Beijing, China) is
currently based in Chicago. He earned
his MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago
and serves as a lecturer at the University
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of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture
and a conservative familial upbringing in China, Xu’s practice extends from examining the production of
power in photography to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. His
works have been exhibited and screened internationally.
In this series, Temporarily Censored Home (2019), he stages his childhood home with his own artwork
and assorted ephemera and then photographs the created environment to reclaim his familial space as a
queer place of belonging and freedom. According to the artist, this series is a two-fold secret—his family
does not know he is gay or about this project.
The past and present intertwined in Caja de visiones: arte moderno y contemporáneo de México en el
Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos, or Box of Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art from Mexico in the
Midwest. The exhibition featured selections from MMoCA’s significant collection of Mexican modern art in
dialogue with contemporary artists based the United States who address analogous themes in their work,
nearly a century later. The Museum was able to acquire works by J. Leigh Garcia and Roberto Torres Mata.
J. Leigh Garcia completed her MFA in
printmaking at the University of Wisconsin–
Madison and is now Assistant Professor in
Print Media and Photography at Kent State
University in Ohio. She describes herself as a
“biracial Latina,” a seventh-generation Texan
of European descent on her mother’s side and
the granddaughter of Mexican immigrants on
her father’s. Her print-based practice examines
the tensions between her two cultures,
Texan and Mexican, which have often been at
war with each other. Vigilantes (2018) is an
explicit political commentary on the fraught
nature of undocumented Latinx migrants
in the United States. Depicting an unauthorized
practice by Border Patrol agents, sand is
combed behind a patrolling truck so that footprints of those attempting to cross the border are easier to
track. Yet within the tire tracks, Garcia reveals soldaderas, Mexican vaqueros, and indigenous Mexicans in
the sand to envision how her native ancestors would respond to this contemporary Border Patrol practice.
MMoCA is grateful for the generosity of Museum supporters who established the Art Acquisition Fund
held at the Madison Community Foundation.
Examining both human and animal migration,
Roberto Torres Mata’s multimedia
practice centers on the migrant experience.
His work strives to present migration as a
fundamental right, working to destigmatize
the phenomenon through its focus on
metaphors of the natural world. The work
of Torres Mata engages with the complexities
around the geopolitical forces behind
human migration, including ecological and
economic realities centered in the Americas.
Addressing the Mexican diaspora, in The
Path That Leads Us (2020), Roberto Torres
Mata uses a flock of birds undulating in one
singular line across the top of the picture as a visual metaphor for mass migration and movement. In
discussing the work, Torres Mata also referenced the cohesion with nature that is disrupted by the looming
man-made border wall. Thank you to Dynee and Barney Sheafor for funding this acquisition for the
Permanent Collection.
PAGE 6: Hannah Price, Lexington Group, Bed-Stuy. Brooklyn, New York, USA, from the series Cursed by Night, 2012. Archival inkjet print, 40 x
50 inches. Museum Purchase with funds from JoAnne Robbins, Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy of the Artist.
• Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study (0X5A7421), 2018. Archival pigment print, 51 x 34 inches. Museum Purchase Fund, Collection of the Madison
Museum of Contemporary Art. Image courtesy of the Artist and DOCUMENT Gallery, Chicago. • Guanyu Xu, Facing North, Looking West, from the
series Temporarily Censored Home, 2019. Archival pigment print, 56 x 70 inches. Museum Purchase Fund, Collection of the Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art. Image courtesy of the Artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, and Gaotai Gallery. PAGE 7: J. Leigh Garcia, Vigilantes, 2018. Screen
print on paper, 14 x 20 inches. Museum Purchase Fund, Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. Courtesy of the Artist. • Roberto
Torres Mata, The Path That Leads Us, 2020. Screenprint, lithograph, 40 x 33 inches. Museum Purchase with funds from Dynee & Barney Sheafor,
Courtesy of the Artist.
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IN MEMORIAM
SAM GILLIAM (1933–2022)
Kind. Generous. Silly. Surprising. All words that MMoCA’s Installations and Facilities Associate
Bruce Crownover uses to describe artist Sam Gilliam, whom Crownover knew as a friend for 35
years before Gilliam died in Washington, D.C., on June 24, 2022, at the age of 88.
Crownover, now an expert printmaker in his own right, was a 20-something college student when
he met Gilliam in 1987 at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tandem Press. Gilliam was already
well-established in the art world, best known for his draped canvas works.
Gilliam holds a special place in Crownover’s own history: the first print that he editioned at
Tandem was by Gilliam, and he worked with the artist on numerous other works. One such project
was Gilliam’s work Of Fireflies and Ferris Wheels (c. 1991). The work was printed on pelon fabric
and ultimately spanned 100 yards. Crownover and dozens of UW students—along with people
from the neighborhood around Tandem—helped with its production.
To create the work, Gilliam made designs on a sheet of plywood, and Crownover carved them into
about 50 blocks. According to Crownover’s recollection, Gilliam declared ”any color, any block,
any time, doesn’t matter, just grab a can of ink, ink up a block, put it on the press.’”
“So the press bed kept going back and forth and everybody would grab a block when it came off,
ink it in whatever color, put it on the press, roll it through, do that again, and just all day long, a
million colors,” Crownover remembered. Later, they went to Tandem Press founder Bill Weege’s
farm in Arena, Wisconsin, where helpers stretched the canvas at intervals while Sam applied many
colors of paint using a mop and brushes.
“What struck me about Sam early on is that there’s a lot of surprises in the way that he works, in
that he seems to keep everything sort of to himself until the end.” When the works are finished,
Crownover said, “they’re just so elegant and so simple and so powerful.”
Sam Gilliam, Carousel, 1970. Acrylic on unstretched canvas, 9’ 10” x 67’ 1”. Purchase through funds from the Brittingham Foundation and
an anonymous donor, Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Photo by Charlotte Cummins
MMoCA Launches the 2022-23
Teen Forum Program
Applications Are Due Friday, September 16, 2022
MMoCA is accepting applications for the 2022-23 Teen Forum, a program in which Madison-area
teens get a hands-on introduction to a career as a museum professional. Successful applicants for
this year’s program will join five Teen Forum members who were part of the 2021-22 program.
The program is open to teens ages 14-18. Under the guidance of MMoCA’s Education and
Curatorial staff, the teens learn how to conceive, organize, and curate a teen art exhibition, as
well as develop educational programming to complement the exhibition.
The Teen Forum will have the autonomy to build a meaningful and relevant arts program at the
museum, and will be exposed to a diverse array of careers within the arts. Members will meet
in-person at MMoCA for 3 to 6 hours per month and
will be paid a stipend. Eligible teens may participate for
two years.
Applications are available on mmoca.org at: mmoca.org/
learn/for-teens/ Applications must be received by Friday,
September 16, 2022.
ART EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE
YOUR DONATION HELPS SUPPORT FREE EDUCATION
PROGRAMMING. GIVE TODAY AT MMOCA.ORG/DONATE.
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EDUCATION PROGRAMS
SPOTLIGHT CINEMA RETURNS
THIS WINTER
MMoCA’s tradition of bringing critically
acclaimed, independent films to the Madison
community continues this winter, with screenings
planned for the Museum Lecture Hall. This
year’s series is still being curated and dates
are not yet finalized, so please keep an eye on
MMoCA’s social media, the digital newsletter
MMoCA Notes, and on mmoca.org.
Spotlight Cinema is $7 per screening, or free
for MMoCA members and anyone age 18 and
younger. Ticket sales begin at 6:30 PM in the
Museum lobby.
Spotlight Cinema is a program of MMoCA’s education department, and generously funded by an anonymous
donor, maihaus, and Venture Investors, LLC.
JOIN US FOR A POETRY PANEL
Thursday, September 8 • 6-8 PM • Lecture Hall
Admission is Free
MMoCA’s education team will present a
Poetry Panel on September 8 from 6-8
PM in the Museum Lecture Hall. The
Panel will focus on displacement--specifically
how artists of color cope with
feeling displaced in Madison. The panel
is in tandem with the Home exhibition,
now on view in the Henry Street Gallery.
Both the panel and the exhibition focus
on how art creates the space to ruminate
on one’s experiences.
After their performance, poets will
engage in conversation about how their
lives impact their art, as well as how to
navigate the thin line of catharsis and trauma dumping.
Poets include:
Photo by Lucy Nguyen Pham
Kai Brown: Kai Brown (They/Them) is a BLK Queer poet and visual artist from Des Moines, Iowa.
Brown is a First Wave Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Alpha Stokes: Alpha Stokes (She/Her) is a collegiate junior from Buffalo, New York, majoring in English
with a concentration in Creative Writing, as well as a certificate in Political Economy, Philosophy, and
Politics. She is a First Wave Scholar and peer mentor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Tatiyana Benson: Tatiyana Benson (She/Her) is a rising junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
studying Personal Finance.
Zack Lesmeister: Zack Lesmeister (They/Them) is a queer Vietnamese-American poet based out of
St. Louis, Missouri, and Madison. He is a First Wave Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
studying Creative Writing.
We invite you to explore the exhibition in the Henry Street Gallery before the Poetry Panel. Admission
to the event and the Museum’s galleries is free.
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MUSEUM EVENTS
GALLERY NIGHT
Friday, Nov 4, 5–9 PM
Gallery Night returns to Madison this
fall on Friday, November 4 from 5-9 pm.
Dozens of venues in the Greater Madison
area will open their doors to celebrate the
vibrant local art scene. Organized by the
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art,
Gallery Night offers art lovers an opportunity
to enjoy a wide variety of visual art
offerings throughout the area.
Getting out on Gallery Night is an excellent
way to support local artists and small
businesses in the community. During the
event, local businesses, galleries, artist studios,
and non-profits will host special exhibitions,
demonstrations, and receptions. It’s the perfect opportunity to shop local and pick up something
to brighten up your own space, or buy a one-of-a–kind gift for an upcoming celebration.
To view a list of participating venues, and peruse an online map, visit mmoca.org/gallerynight. Please
follow all social distancing and masking guidelines set by participating venues as you enjoy the evening.
ART & GIFT FAIR:
WEEKENDS AT MMoCA
Nov 4–6, Nov 19 & 20, Dec 3 & 4 • Free admission
Kicking off on Gallery Night, Nov 4 • MMoCA Lobby
The popular pop-up series, the Art & Gift Fair:
Weekends at MMoCA, is returning this winter.
This year, guests will be able to shop in the
Museum’s lobby during three alternating weekends
beginning on November 4, which coincides
with fall Gallery Night. Each Art & Gift Fair
weekend will feature a diverse mix of 14 local artists
and makers. In addition to fine art painters,
printmakers, photographers, jewelers, and artists
working in glass, fiber, metal, wood and clay, the
weekends will also showcase vendors offering
body products, wearables, specialty foods, and
more. Each of these Art & Gift Fair: Weekends at MMoCA are fundraisers for the Museum’s operations,
exhibitions, and educational programs. Visit mmoca.org for a list of participating artists.
SHOPPING HOURS
Gallery Night:
Friday, Nov 4 • 5–9 PM
Saturday, Nov 5 • 11 AM–5 PM
Sunday, Nov 6 • 11 AM–5 PM
Saturday, Nov 19 • 11 AM–5 PM
Sunday, Nov 20 • 11 AM–5 PM
Saturday, Dec 3 • 11 AM–5 PM
Sunday, Dec 4 • 11 AM–5 PM
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PRIVATE EVENTS
CELEBRATE IN STYLE AT MMoCA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is the
perfect place to host a private event, whether
it be a professional gathering or a personal
celebration.
Photo by Tara Draper Photography
The Museum has several four-season indoor
spaces, such as the 230-seat Lecture Hall that
can be used for company presentations, annual
meetings, speaker series, or strategy sessions.
The Museum Lobby, with its large windows facing
State Street and downtown Madison, is an
excellent location for a company luncheon, using
the caterer of your choice.
Consider planning ahead for summer 2023 for your wedding, rehearsal dinner, or engagement party. The
Museum’s Rooftop Sculpture Garden is ideal for outdoor events, where you can dance under the stars
surrounded by colorful garden beds and contemporary sculptures. MMoCA’s events team will happily
work with you to find the caterer that best matches your theme and budget.
By choosing MMoCA for your event, you are also helping support the Museum’s free exhibitions and
education programs, available to the community year-round. Discounted rental rates are available for
non-profit groups and members of the MMoCA Langer Society and Business Council. For more information,
contact Bob Sylvester at events@mmoca.org.
MEMBERS MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Join or Renew Your Membership Today
Community support is vital to MMoCA’s
success, but we also recognize the barriers
that have existed in traditional membership
models. MMoCA is committed to
serving as an inclusive and welcoming community
resource.
MMoCA recently launched a new membership
option—the Friend of MMoCA level.
Become a Friend of MMoCA and enjoy
invitations and free admission to exhibition
opening receptions, films, and art talks; a
subscription to MMoCA’s newsletter and
membership mailings; a subscription to
the weekly MMoCA Notes e-newsletter;
and more!
Photo by Sharon Vanorny
If you are in a position to have a paid membership, please know that your contribution supports MMoCA’s
mission to provide transformative experiences that educate, reflect, and inspire us as individuals and a
community. Gifts of any size support the Museum’s dynamic exhibitions, robust education programming,
and engaging events offered free-of-charge to the public.
To view a list of membership benefits, renew, or join as a member,
visit mmoca.org/membership. Questions about membership?
Contact us at membership@mmoca.org or 608.257.0158.
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MEMBERSHIP & GIVING
BUSINESS, FOUNDATION,
& GOVERNMENT DONORS
MMoCA gratefully recognizes the businesses, foundations, and government agencies making contributions
to Museum exhibitions, education programs, events, and ongoing operations. Thanks to this support,
MMoCA can offer compelling and thought-provoking programming, which makes this community and
region more vibrant. Through their gifts, the organizations below have established themselves as engaged,
generous community leaders. MMoCA thanks the following for their support.
BENEFACTOR ($10,000)
Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts
Block 100 Foundation
Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family
Foundation
The DeAtley Family Foundation
Dirigible Studio
John J. Frautschi Family
Foundation
W. Jerome Frautschi
Foundation
The David and Paula Kraemer
Fund
Madison Community
Foundation
MMoCA Volunteers
National Endowment
for the Arts
Nimick Forbesway Foundation
Pleasant T. Rowland
Foundation
SupraNet Communications Inc.
Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith
Family Foundation
SPONSOR ($5,000)
Artful Home
The Cummings Christensen
Family Foundation
Dane Arts
Findorff
Hooper Foundation
Husch Blackwell Foundation
Johnson Financial Group
SMS Foundation
Step Inside Media
Summit Credit Union
Venture Investors
Wisconsin Arts Board
LEADER ($2,500)
Access Information
Management
The Capital Times Kids Fund
First Business Bank
Hellenbrand Glass
Isthmus Community Media
J. F. Ahern Co.
Madison Magazine
Magic 98
Milwaukee Valve Company
Oak Bank
Oakbrook Corporation
Pepsi Cola of Madison
Ross Hegginbottom - M3
Insurance
Selinger & Brunette, LLC
Sketchworks Architecture
Staff Electric Co.
Wildwood Productions
Wisconsin Lottery
Wisconsin State Journal
WKOW TV
PARTNER ($1,000)
Ace Electric
Custer Financial Services
DoubleTree by Hilton Madison
Lake Effect HR & Law
Madison Arts Commission
The Terry Family Foundation
U.S. Bank Private Wealth
Management
Widen Enterprises
Woodman’s Food Market, Inc.
IS YOUR BUSINESS
AN MMoCA
SUPPORTER?
In addition to receiving special benefits
at the museum for their employees,
business members gain visibility
in the community as economic and
cultural leaders, while supporting free
access to modern and contemporary
art.
For more information on becoming
a corporate supporter, contact
Kaitlin Kropp at kaitlin@mmoca.org
or 608.257.0158 x249.
MMoCA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OFFICERS
Dynee Sheafor, President
Vikki Enright, Vice-President
Colin Good, Vice-President
Juliet Page, Vice-President
Eric Plautz, Treasurer
Jennifer Ridley Hanson, Secretary
OTHER TRUSTEES
Dan Abrahamson • Erin Bemis • Marian Bolz,
Life Trustee • Gina Carter • Jim Escalante •
Veronica Figueroa Velez • Larry Frank •
Evan Gruzis • Chele Isaac • Valerie Kazamias,
Life Trustee • Nathan Kirley • Hedi Rudd •
Leslie Smith III • Tina Virgil
NEW LANGER SOCIETY MEMBERS,
MAR 1–JUN 30
Rob and Buffy Gard
Scott Grosz
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ABOUT THE MUSEUM
Photo by Nicholas Sadowski
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is an independent, nonprofit organization presenting
exhibitions by local, regional, national, and international artists. A permanent collection of more
than 5,500 works of art is maintained and enlarged through gifts and purchases. The Museum’s
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227 State Street • Madison, WI 53703
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
invites you to the Exhibition Celebration for
FAISAL ABDU’ALLAH
DARK MATTER
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
RECEPTION • 5–8 PM
Music and a non-alcoholic cash bar
ARTIST TALK • 6:30–7:30 PM
Faisal Abdu’Allah will discuss DARK MATTER, which includes a
selection of the artist’s most celebrated series, along with the
continuing arc of his artistic practice. Lecture hall seating is
limited, so be sure to find your seat right away.
This celebration is admission free and open to the public.
Please enter through the MMoCA Lobby doors at 227 State
Street. Masks are highly encouraged indoors at MMoCA.
Presenting Sponsorship for Faisal Abdu’Allah: DARK MATTER has been provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Major Sponsorship
has been provided by Gina and Michael Carter, and Husch Blackwell. Additional support has been
provided by Dane Arts with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, the Evjue
Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of the Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.
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