On Wings of Art On Wings of Art

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O ne of the main highlights at the newly renovated Dane County
Regional Airport is the splendid
new Art Court. Th e Dane County
Regional Airport is the cultural
gateway to a vibrant, and dynamic
artistic community. Th e richness of these cultural
resources can be found at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
the new Overture Center, and at
numerous other museums, theatres,
and artistic centers throughout the
city of Madison and Dane County.
T he inaugural exhibition is entitled: “On Wings of Art.” Seven individual shows make up
the fi rst exhibit. Th e theme of the
exhibition highlights many aspects
of aviation, mapping, bird’s-eye
views, and fl ight through historical
photographs, maps, globes, sculptures,
fi lms and posters, rare books, and
contemporary prints. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Kathleen Falk, Dane County Executive THE DANE COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT COMMISSION ART COMMITTEE: Diane Everson, Judy Sidran and Bill White
DANE COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT STAFF: Brad Livingston, Director
David Jenson, Michael Kirchner, Rodney Knight,
William La Gore, Sharon Wisniewski
TANDEM PRESS STUDENTS AND VOLUNTEERS: Oreoluwa Adedeji, Art Hove, Blythe Kennedy, Margaret Knight,
Amy Nowell and Renee Schlatter SPECIAL THANKS: Matt Dubbe, Architect; Lynne Watrous Eich, Director,
Dane County Cultural Aff airs Commission;
Robert and Viletta Skuldt
Linda Endlich, Designer, UW-Madison, School of Education,
Instructional Media Development Center
Framing was most generously donated by Eye Level Framing “On Wings of Art” was organized by Paula Panczenko, Director, Tandem Press, with the assistance of curators
Timothy Rooney, Amy Newell and preparator Jason Ruhl. Th is brochure is funded with a grant from the Brittingham Fund–University of Wisconsin-Madison T he Dane County Regional Airport hosts over a million travelers
a year. Business and leisure travelers,
and those waiting for family, friends
and guests to the community will
now have the opportunity to enjoy
diverse and exciting displays in the
new art court. Th e exhibitions program is designed
to introduce airport visitors to a
broad range of visual and cultural
treasures drawn from the Dane
County community. T his exhibit represents a very small part of the tremendous cultural
assets we have in Dane County and
is intended to encourage visitors to
seek out the many cultural riches in
our community. Benjamin Edwards,
Tandem Press
Maxine Fleckner Ducey, Archivist, Wisconsin
Center for Film and
Th eater Research
Stephen Fleischman, Director,
and Jane Simon, Curator,
Madison Museum
of Contemporary Art
Ken Frazier,
Director of the General Library System, University
of Wisconsin-Madison Martha Glowacki, Artist
Andy Kraushaar,
Visual Materials Curator,
Library Archives Division,
Wisconsin Historical Society
Randy Paul,
Historic Blooming Grove
Historical Society
Robin Rider, Curator, and
Ann Myers, Intern,
Department of Special Collections, UW Libraries
John Taylor, JTaylor’s EXHIBIT PARTICIPANTS: On Wings of Art On Wings of Art ORGANIZED BY TANDEM PRESS—UW-MADISON Bill White, Chairman, Th e Dane County Regional Airport Commission and Paula Panczenko, Director, Tandem Press THE PARTICIPATING EXHIBITORS ARE: Department of Special Collections: Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison At the nucleus of the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library at UW–Madison is the impressive book collection assembled by Chester Th ordarson, an immigrant from Iceland who founded a successful electrical manufacturing company in Chicago in 1895. Shortly after World War II, the University purchased Th ordarson’s collection, rich in natural history and history of science as well as English literature and Icelandic history. Among the highlights of the Th ordarson Collection are beautiful illustrated works on ornithology and botany, many of them hand-colored and depicting birds and plants at life size. Other strengths in Special Collections include the Cairns Collection of American Women Writers Before 1920 – some well known, others often neglected – and the Little Magazines Collection, fi lled with experimental English-language literary magazines. Th e Department also features collections documenting political movements and social developments in European history, ranging from pre-revolutionary French political pamphlets to documents from Fascist Italy in the Fry Collection. A spacious display area features changing exhibits drawn from the Department’s 220,000 volumes and hundreds of linear feet of manuscripts and archives. VISIT THE WEBSITE AT: www.library.wisc.edu/ libraries/SpecialCollections/ EXHIBIT: “Birds in Books” Th e Wisconsin Center for Film and Th eater Research – University of Wisconsin-Madison i s one of the world’s major archives of research materials relating to the entertainment industry. It maintains over three hundred
manuscripts collections from outstanding playwrights, television
and motion picture writers, producers, actors, designers,
directors and production companies. In addition to the paper
records, materials preserved include fi fteen thousand motion
pictures, television shows and videotapes, two million still
photographs and promotional graphics, and several thousand
sound recordings. WCFTR collections are richest in records of
the American fi lm industry between 1930 and 1960, popular
theater of the 1940s and 1950s, and television from the 1950s
through the 1970s. It has an international reputation as one of the
most accessible archival repositories, where, since its founding in 1960, research undertaken using
its collections has revolutionized
our understanding of American
cinema, theater and television. Th e WCFTR is co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-
Madison and the Wisconsin
Historical Society. All fi lm, photo
and manuscripts collections held
by the WCFTR and the Society’s
Visual Materials Collections
can be consulted through the
Archives Division. VISIT THE WEBSITE AT: www. wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr/ EXHIBIT: “Flying on Film” Th e History of Cartography Project, affi liated to the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and
mapping. Th e Project’s major work is the multi-volume History of Cartography series. Its inter-disciplinary approach brings together scholars in the arts, sciences, and humanities. By considering
previously ignored aspects of cartographic history, the Project
encourages a broader view of maps that has signifi cantly infl uenced
other fi elds of study. Organized by region and time period, the History of Cartography looks at maps in the context of the societies that made and used them. Th e volumes integrate existing scholarship with new
research, examining an unprecedented range of artifacts from local
maps to those of the cosmos. Th e books are extensively illustrated
and contain detailed footnotes, appendixes, and reference maps. John Taylor, of JTaylor’s has organized this exhibit to honor the project. VISIT THE WEBSITE AT: www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/ EXHIBIT: “Terra Sphaeroides (Spherical Earth)” Th e Wisconsin Historical Society engages the public with the excitement of discovery, inspires people with new perspectives on the past, and illuminates the relevance of history in our lives today. In short, the Wisconsin Historical Society helps people connect to the past. Founded in 1846, the Society moved from temporary quarters in the second state Capitol to its present headquarters on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1900. Today the Society ranks among the pre-eminent state historical agencies in the nation, and its collections have grown to comprise the largest library in the world dedicated exclusively to North American history. Th e archives hold numerous collections of national scope, ranging from early American frontier history to late 20th-century social action movements, such as civil rights. Th e Society’s historical museum and its statewide network of 10 historic sites provide one of the nation’s most comprehensive laboratories for the study, appreciation and enjoyment of Midwestern frontier history . VISIT THE WEBSITE AT: www.wisconsinhistory.org EXHIBIT: “Bird’s-Eye Views” Tandem Press – University of Wisconsin-Madison Tandem Press based at University of Wisconsin-Madison, off ers an extraordinary educational experience for students, faculty, and the community, which is unparalleled at any other University in the United States. Th e Tandem Press is an artistic laboratory where creative experimentation in printmaking is undertaken by internationally recognized artists. UW-Madison’s stated mission is threefold: teaching, research, and public service. Th e Tandem Press shares this mission by teaching, undertaking research into new and old printmaking techniques, and by conducting outreach programs to help educate the public about art in general, and printmaking in particular. Tandem Press is fi nancially self-supporting, and affi liated to the Department of Art in the School of Education. Since 1987, sixty-two artists have created prints at the Press; over 250 art, art history and arts administration students have apprenticed at Tandem; and hundreds of workshops, lectures and open houses have abounded. In addition, the visiting artists have made thousands of prints in collaboration with the master printers, and have included such luminaries as Jim Dine, Suzanne Caporael, Sam Gilliam, David Lynch and Judy Pfaff . Th ese prints now hang in museums and corporations throughout the United States including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Chicago Art Institute and the National Museum of American Art in Washington D.C. just to name a few. Th e Chazen Museum of Art, located on the University campus, is the offi cial archive for Tandem Press, and has one of every editioned print in its collection. Tandem prints also hang at their gallery space in Madison. VISIT THEIR WEBSITES AT: www.tandempress.wisc.edu and www.chazen.wisc.edu EXHIBIT: “From a Distance–Benjamin Edwards” Th e Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is a nonprofi t, independent organization that exists to exhibit, collect and preserve, and interpret modern and contemporary art. As one of the city’s oldest cultural organizations, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art traces its origins to the Madison Art Association, which was formed by a group of artists and art enthusiasts in 1901. In 1969, the Association merged with the Madison Art Foundation and shortly thereafter achieved accreditation from the American Association of Museums under the name Madison Art Center. Th e Art Center operated in the former Lincoln School on East Gorham Street until 1980, when the museum moved into its current location. In September 2003, plans for a new Cesar Pelli-designed facility, were unveiled; the facility is scheduled to open April 23, 2006, as part of the Overture Center for the Arts. To mark this new chapter in the organization’s rich history, the Madison Art Center was renamed the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. VISIT THE WEBSITE AT: www.tmmoca.org EXHIBIT: “Works from Starry Transit by Martha Glowacki” Local Aviation Roots Th e text for this exhibit was written by Randy Paul, Historic Blooming Grove Historical Society. To illustrate the exhibit, photographs were selected from the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Additional text was provided by Robert and Viletta Skuldt.

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