Children's Tour and Workshop

This family-fun workshop begins at 1:00 pm at the James Watrous Gallery, third floor, Overture Center for the Arts, with a free, guided tour of Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land, followed by a guided discussion in Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana in MMoCA’s Permanent Collection.

After the tour, an art workshop will be held in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s classroom where you will create unique landscapes inspired by the exhibitions.

Registration is required: $5.00 per child. Ages 5 years and up is recommended, and children must be accompanied by an adult. A maximum of 25 children can participate, so please contact McKenzie Glynn at 608-256-6445 ext. 550 to register today.

Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider the Land at the James Watrous Gallery is an exploration of landscape through the painstaking and richly textured medium of fabric and embroidery. Each of the artists in the show-Terese Agnew (Lacrosse), Chris Niver (Milwaukee), Leah Evans (Madison) and Sarah Gagnon (Madison)-use needle and thread to create work that, while unabashedly beautiful, embodies the contradictions implicit in our relationship to the land.

For James Watrous Gallery hours and more information on the current exhibition, please visit www.wisconsinacademy.org or call 608-265-2500.

Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana presents works of art that explore ideas about American history, landscape, and culture. For MMoCA hours and more information on Apple Pie please visit www.mmoca.org or call 608-257-0158.

Please visit MadisonChildrensMuseum.org for up-to-date information on special events and our Road Show.  

Other Stitched Ground exhibition-related events:

Friday, February 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m., exhibition reception with gallery talk led by guest curator and Design Gallery director Jody Clowes.  Exhibiting artists will be present. Gallery talk begins at 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 7, 2:00 p.m., Gallery talk with exhibition artist Terese Agnew

Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m., Gallery talk with exhibition artist Leah Evans

Stitched Ground: Four Artists Embroider The Land is supported by the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, by a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation and the Overture Foundation, by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Anonymous Fund, by Suzanne and Richard R. Pieper Sr., and by Ann Neviaser. Ongoing gallery support comes from DoubleTree Hotel-Madison and Robert & Carroll Heideman. The Wisconsin Academy thanks these sponsors for their generous support.

We would also like to thank the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum for their loans of Terese Agnew’s pieces to the exhibition. Finally, we thank the exhibition artists, Terese Agnew, Leah Evans, Sarah Gagnon, and Chris Niver, for their enthusiastic participation in this project.

Artwork image: Details of artwork by the artists of Stitched Ground, (l to r) Chris Niver, Sarah Gagnon, Terese Agnew, and Leah Evans.