Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Mothership with talks by ten of your favorite Wisconsin artists. FREE FOR MEMBERS.

DELLA WELLS
Saturday, May 20 | 11:00
Self-taught artist Della Wells sees herself as both a storyteller and an artist. Although her professional career in the arts began at the relatively late age of 42, Wells’s collages and assemblages are animated with personal stories that have attracted the attention of museums and collectors nation-wide.

MICHELLE GRABNER
Saturday, June 17 | 11:00
Michelle Grabner is an artist-alchemist who transforms humble domestic objects into high art. Her hypnotic variations on the theme of gingham have won the Wisconsin native an uber-prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship and a national reputation that names her the twenty-seventh most powerful woman in the art world.

TOM UTTECH
Saturday, July 15 | 11:00
Tom Uttech needs no introduction. The elder statesman of Wisconsin art has long enraptured viewers with otherworldly paintings of the natural world at its most magical.

JASON S. YI
Saturday, August 5 | 11:00
Raised in South Korea until the age of eleven, Jason S. Yi’s bi-cultural background inspires his boundary-crossing artistic practice. His use of humble, utilitarian materials like packing peanuts, plastic wrap, and PVC tubing form site-specific installations with all the grandeur of Romantic-era landscapes.

FRED STONEHOUSE
Saturday, September 23 | 11:00
Fred Stonehouse’s paintings marry wide-ranging art-historical influences with inscrutable symbols according to a strangely compelling dream logic. The bravado Neo-Surrealism of his work has secured Stonehouse a place in collections around the world, including those of Madonna and Sheryl Crow.

VAUGHAN LARSEN
Saturday, October 7 | 11:00
Vaughan Larsen’s photography defies dichotomies. The non-binary artist situates themself at the center of their work to explore the fluidity of identity and the public reception of non-conforming individuals. Larsen is definitely one to watch.

LON MICHELS
Saturday, November 18 | 11:00
After working with renowned sculptor Louise Nevelson in New York City during the 1980s, Lon Michels returned to his home state of Wisconsin, where he developed a vibrant Neo-Pop brand of painting that celebrates male and female beauty. Michels’s canvases brim with joie de vivre.

PAST TALKS
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DAVID LENZ | Saturday, March 18

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