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Chazen Museum of Art Free and open to all, the Chazen Museum of Art is located on the UW–Madison campus. Copyright for some images is maintained by artists or their estates.

The Chazen Museum of Art is a valued resource, presenting a significant permanent collection, compelling temporary exhibitions, and innovative programming. The museum, on the UW-Madison campus, offers something new and extraordinary every visit. In such cases, please obtain permission for reproduction directly from the artists or their representatives. All images published by the Chazen Museum of Art are for noncommercial, educational, and/or personal use only. The museum loves to hear from you - here's a quick note on posting and commenting. This page is an open forum where anyone is welcome to contribute, but please be aware that offensive, defamatory, obscene or harassing comments or personal attacks are not tolerated. Posts unrelated to the collections and exhibitions of the museum, especially for any commercial purpose, may be deleted. Unsolicited contributions are not generally accepted via social media. Please visit our website to contact the appropriate staff person. The UW-Madison social media statement can be found here:
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Ever wish could you take a piece of the Chazen home with you? You can—just grab one of our new wall calendars at the fro...
10/27/2026

Ever wish could you take a piece of the Chazen home with you? You can—just grab one of our new wall calendars at the front desk!

This edition celebrates our newly reimagined galleries by featuring some works you probably haven't seen up close before. Take a look—they're free!

📅Months run through December 2027.

10/23/2026

You’ve waited for months, and it’s finally here! We are so excited to invite you to a weekend of festivities in honor of the Chazen’s reopening on Saturday, November 13 and Sunday, November 14. Explore the entire museum—both the Chazen and Elvehjem buildings—while you discover interactive art activities, live performances, and sweet treats along the way.

Although the museum will be open for anyone to enjoy, we highly encourage registering in advance for guided tours, which have limited capacity.

Head over to go.wisc.edu/ChazenOpenHouse to check out the full lineup.

📆Upcoming Drop-in Tours | Pressing Issues Meet a Chazen guide at the front desk and see how Depression-era artists used ...
10/21/2026

📆Upcoming Drop-in Tours | Pressing Issues
Meet a Chazen guide at the front desk and see how Depression-era artists used their evocative works to call out the inequities they saw all around them. Sign up to reserve a spot; walk-ins are welcome as space allows.

Sunday, Oct. 25: https://loom.ly/RsuVyRQ
Sunday, Nov. 1: https://loom.ly/iM5aPL0
Thursday, Nov. 6: https://loom.ly/fE6-_jQ

Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States is organized by the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and curated by Kathryn Koca Polite.
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From Krannert Art Museum, allocated by the U.S. Government and commissioned through the New Deal art projects:
- Top: Jacob Kainen, Tenement Fire, around 1934–1943, lithograph, 1943-4-205.
- Bottom: Charles Frederick Ramus, The Coal Pickers, 1939, lithograph, 1943-4-356.

What do museum directors and gardeners have in common? It’s more than an appreciation for Monet’s Water Lilies. In a new...
10/19/2026

What do museum directors and gardeners have in common? It’s more than an appreciation for Monet’s Water Lilies. In a new op ed for Hyperallergic, Chazen Director Amy Gilman invites us on the imaginative, experimental, and occasionally agricultural adventure of leading the museum into a new era. Find the 🔗 In the comments ⬇️

What's it like to teach, and learn, at the Chazen—possibly one of the biggest classrooms on campus? Find out by tuning i...
10/14/2026

What's it like to teach, and learn, at the Chazen—possibly one of the biggest classrooms on campus? Find out by tuning in to the latest episode of the L&S Exchange, a podcast produced by the UW-Madison College of Letters & Science's Instructional Design Collaborative!

Our Chief Engagement Officer Berit Ness and Academic Coordinator Mieke Miller talk with hosts David Macasaet and Molly Harris about the ways we can collaborate with faculty—and offer students who may not have spent time at museums "radical hospitality" to feel comfortable with a new way of learning.

"Our goal is that class visits to the museum are not to the side of the learning goals on the syllabus, but rather a new strategy to advance those same goals in a different setting," Ness says.

Listen to L&S Exchange wherever you get your podcasts, or at the podcast homepage: https://loom.ly/EuDqyyg

Yes, it's true! We've opened the first section of reinstalled galleries, all on the Chazen building's third floor. Galle...
10/12/2026

Yes, it's true! We've opened the first section of reinstalled galleries, all on the Chazen building's third floor. Gallery 10 and the Elvehjem building galleries remain closed as we work towards a full reopening in November.

Watch our social media for updates as more galleries open up!

📝 NOTE: we'll be closing at 4 p.m. today (Friday, Oct. 9) for a private event—we'll be back open at 11 a.m. Saturday.___...
10/09/2026

📝 NOTE: we'll be closing at 4 p.m. today (Friday, Oct. 9) for a private event—we'll be back open at 11 a.m. Saturday.
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Mary Sibande (South African, b. 1982), Sower in the Field, 2015, bronze, 67 1/4 x 66 x 117 1/2 inches, Sara Guyer and Scott Straus Contemporary African Art Initiative made possible by the Straus Family Foundation, 2022.1.

Pressing Issues Celebration with UW–Madison School for Workers📆Thursday, Oct. 8 | 🕔 5–7 p.m. | 📍Chazen Museum of ArtJoin...
10/06/2026

Pressing Issues Celebration with UW–Madison School for Workers
📆Thursday, Oct. 8 | 🕔 5–7 p.m. | 📍Chazen Museum of Art

Join us as we celebrate the courage and vision of Depression-era artists who used their prints to call out the inequity, exploitation, and racism they saw all around them.

Pressing Issues: Printmaking as Social Justice in 1930s United States provides a visceral and much-needed reminder of how visual artists can question and challenge oppression in all its forms.

Starting at 5 p.m., UW-Madison School for Workers scholars Dr. Ericka Wills and Prof. Alexia Kulwiec will discuss the state of labor in the United States since these prints were made.

After the conversation, join us in the Mead Witter Lobby for a public reception with complimentary appetizers and a cash bar, and take an opportunity to tour the exhibition.

Pressing Issues is organized by the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and curated by Kathryn Koca Polite.

RSVP: https://loom.ly/j6YIFqo
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Boris Gorelick (1912—1984), Industrial Strife, 1938, lithograph, Krannert Art Museum, allocated by the U.S. government, commissioned through the New Deal art projects, 1943-4-138.

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Thursday 10am - 7pm
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Saturday 11am - 5pm
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