RESCHEDULED!!!
So Much More than Childless Cat Ladies!
A Presentation and Craft Workshop by Lisa Currie
NEW DATE: OCTOBER 20TH!!
Paper Beads
The Importance of Choice, Lisa Currie
The recent social media-fueled fuss about childless cat ladies relies on tired tropes about spinsters sitting at home alone with hordes of cats, destined to be lonely and regretful forever. The reality for those who are childfree by choice -- SINKWACs, DINKWADs, PANKs, HUNKs and more! - is quite different. While our pro-natalist society continues to promote childbearing and traditional family-building, each succeeding generation is increasingly choosing not to have children. What does this mean within a reproductive justice framework and for our future collectively?
Join this presentation and discussion, led by Lisa Currie an HIV and sexuality educator, to learn more about many of the reasons behind the growing childfree by choice movement, plus engage in a craft project hand making paper beads. You’ll have the opportunity to incorporate your own reproductive justice or other personal messages into your beads, if you so choose!
Lisa Currie’s piece The Importance of Choice is featured in the exhibition
Let Me Tell You: Dane County Artists on Reproductive Health Justice currently on display in Communication’s gallery. This workshop will serve as the closing event for this exhibition.
Lisa Currie (she/her) is a sexuality educator, currently working in HIV clinical workforce development through a federally funded training center located at UW-Madison. She has also been engaged in reproductive justice activism since the early 1990s. She is currently working on her PhD in human sexuality studies through Widener University and begins writing her dissertation regarding people who are childfree by choice in Fall 2024. She also has a side hustle making handmade beaded and fused glass jewelry and hopes to see you at an upcoming craft fair in the Madison area!
Let Me Tell You:
Dane County Artists on Reproductive Health Justice
July 14th to September 14th
Motherhood should be a choice (segment of Triptych), Selia Salzsieder
[em]power tools, Mejia Borowski
Artists from Dane County responded to Communication’s Call for Entry for art relating to the theme of abortion and reproductive health justice.
The resulting exhibition features comics, painting, collage, ink and poetry.
These pieces touch on issues of transness, healthcare, and legislative politics as they relate to the autonomy of the body and mind. In the face of a government that obfuscates our rights as they pertain to these issues, these pieces are declarations and instructions.
Viewing and reading these pieces you are guaranteed to learn about the wider political climate of Wisconsin, and the United States more generally, as well as the personal lived experiences of our featured artists.
An exhibition of art around the theme of reproductive health justice from artists living in Dane County
Are you an artist also interested in including art in this exhibition?
There may still be room! Contact exhibitions@communicationmadison.com
Past Exhibitions
COMMUNICATION PART 2: REVELATIONS
September 24, 2022 - January 2, 2023
Reception: September 24, 4-7pm
Communication Part 2: Revelations is a reflective, introspective exploration of communication. It’s a complementary counter to the outward, community-oriented communication themes in Communication: Meaningful Connections. This second exhibition delves inward to focus not only how one communicates with oneself, but also how one discloses oneself and identity to others.
Read more here.
COMMUNICATION: MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
May 28 - August 21, 2022
Successful communication connects people together and can provide a sense of belonging and understanding that fosters relationships and develops supportive communities.
This group exhibition explored all aspects of communication using visual, performing and literary arts. Read more here.
MARCH 26 - APRIL 25, 2022
East High School’s 31 Days highlights and celebrates young, black artists and their artistry.
SEPTEMBER 18-DECEMBER 20, 2021
Symbiosis: Art and the Community highlights the eclectic artists and variety of art objects sold at Communication. This exhibition features work by 20 different shop artists working in textiles, printing, painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, and jewelry.
JUNE 19 - JULY 26, 2021
Right What’s All This About Then - University of Wisconsin, Madison student Lexie Olson solo exhibition
JANUARY 9 - FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Beautiful Creatures - An arts scene for the time being in Madison, WI
SEPTEMBER 16 - NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Into the Deep: Exploring Fear is a series of large-scale paintings and painted woodcuts created by Sara Meredith (also known as @smeretactics). This series investigates many parallels between falling into the depths of the ocean, finding or changing oneself, processing emotions, and dealing with dark times. This specific exhibition focuses on processing fear, both personal and community-wide.
JANUARY 25 - MARCH 1, 2020
Work from artists Seth Albertson, Chloé Allyn and Lonnie Evans make up Eyes on the Road: an Exhibition about Cars.
NOVEMBER 9, 2019 - JANUARY 5, 2020
Communication is pleased to announce a solo exhibition from Liubóv Szwako "Triangulador."
AUGUST 16-OCTOBER 26, 2019
Library Workers Make Art (and Community): a Group Exhibition at Communication
JANUARY 26-MARCH 30, 2019
A generic definition of the term Outsider Art is, “art created outside the boundaries of official culture.” Is that really what it means today? Join us in considering what that question brings up for eight Wisconsin artists.
NOVEMBER 8-DECEMBER 21, 2018
November 11, 2018 is the 100th anniversary of the armistice of WWI. As art events around the city honor the veteran experience through In Good Company: An Exposition of Emerging Veteran Artists, Communication has invited young people in Madison to express themselves about related issues.
SEPTEMBER 8-NOVEMBER 8, 2018
Always Be Who You Are -
A group exhibition from the artists at ArtWorking.