On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 5:00pm, join us for a live, interactive artist talk and Q&A with 2020-21 Bridge Work Madison artists Gillian Drier and Kel Mur. Gillian Drier: Ideas, Ideals, Criticism, and Concerns and Kel Mur: Reap are on view at Arts + Literature Laboratory from January 14 through February 27, 2021. The event will be streamed live on Facebook. Audience members are invited to ask questions during the event or email questions in advance to hello@artlitlab.org.
Sponsored by Dane Arts, Bridge Work Madison is the Dane County chapter of a multi-state project founded by Jason S. Yi and Leah Kolb of Plum Blossom Initiative (Milwaukee), and joined in 2017 by Arts + Literature Laboratory. Bridge Work provides critical opportunities for emerging artists to broaden the scope of their professional connections and experiences. Bridge Work endeavors to forge a more interconnected arts community throughout the Midwest by facilitating meaningful artistic exchanges and dialogs among artists and art-centered organizations and professionals.
The emerging artists invited to participate in this project express the energy, commitment, and willingness to benefit from the resources and guidance provided by each region’s facilitators. A culminating group exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who are dedicated to their practices and poised to fully engage the contemporary art world. Kel Mur and Gillian Drier will represent Madison in this year’s group exhibition at the Allen Priebe Gallery at UW OshKosh from March 29 to April 14, 2021.
Artist portraits by Jennifer Bastian