Winter is Alive

Thank you to the City of Madison Arts Commission, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and everyone from the City of Madison and Dane County who supported Winter is Alive!

A very special thank you to Karin Wolf, Madison Arts Commission Director for your existential support of this project. Thank you for recognizing and supporting the potential of a winter carnival as a platform for exhibiting public art and illustrating the climate crisis.Your extensive support and engagement - including primary funding, facilitating meetings, coordinating partnerships and connecting like-minded groups and individuals - was inestimable. A special thank you to Bethany Jurewicz and all of the Madison Art Commissioners, for supporting this project from its conception to its completion.

Support for Winter is Alive! was received through county and State agencies including Dane Arts who supported all of the online/ live-streamed programming which made both regional and international participation in Winter is Alive! possible. Thank you Dane Arts Commissioners and Director Mark Fraire for your support!

Design support was generously provided by Mark Fitzgerald, who created the Winter is Alive! logo, documented artist installations and formatted all of the signage for the artwork. Meri Ekberg designed and formatted the Airtable applications and galleries - a special thanks to you both!

Thank you to Bonnie Koenig, from Public Health Madison & Dane County who advised on public health and safety, Madison Sustainability Coordinator Stacie Reece, ​Sujata Gautam from Dane Co. Waste and Renewables who coordinated the Trash Lab appearance, Ann Freiwald and Mark Kiesow, City of Madison Parks for assisting with sites and permitting, Angela Puerta, City of Madison Planning Division for press release posts and to Ryan Caputo, Wisconsin DNR for your support of artist projects on Madison Lakes.

And finally, and most importantly - thank you to the people of Madison for visiting, streaming and sharing all of the artist projects and dialogues of Winter is Alive! a cooler world carnival!

City of Madison: www.cityofmadison.com

City of Madison Arts Commission: www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/planning/madison-arts-commission/1580

City of Madison Parks Division: www.cityofmadison.com/parks

City Arts: www.cityofmadison.com/visit-play/city-arts

Dane Arts: www.danearts.com

Dane County Department of Waste & Renewables (Trash Lab): www.landfill.countyofdane.com/sustainability/Trash-Lab

Madison and Dane County Public Health: www.publichealthmdc.com

Wisconsin DNR: www.dnr.wisconsin.gov

Thank you to the faculty, students and staff of the University of Wisconsin Art Department for all of your participation and support of Winter is Alive! Aris Georgiades and Gail Simpson of Actual Size Artworks offered support from the earliest days of the project including jurying the installation projects. They proposed the first work for outdoor installation “Sad Yeti” which became one of the most popular works of the exhibition - the forlorn icon of winter and mascot of our media posts. A special thank you to Aris, Sarah FitzSimons, Tim O’Neil and the Sculpture Program who supported the development of the project through student assistantships and studio space for artist projects.

Darcy Padilla presented her photographic series “Ice” in State Street kiosks and Tom Jones was a juror for the online artist projects.

Art projects were produced by many UW-Madison art students and UW-Madison alumni including Derick Wycherly, Jeff Chelf and Derek Kiesling, Ian Van D., Bill Rice, Matthew Vivirito, Carley Schmidt and students in Henrique Nardi’s Beginning Graphic Design course. An international collaborative project with Latvian artist Ojārs Feldbergs was produced by grad sculpture students Ian Van D., Brittany Weekley, and Teresa Audet. Brittany Weekley and Marc La Pointe are our incredible Social Media crew - a dynamic duo of daily posts highlighting all of the artists, groups, makers and thinkers contributing to the project.

The support and participation of so many in the UW Art Department created a perfect winter storm - thank you!

To learn more about the UW-Madison Art Department, visit www.art.wisc.edu

For more information, visit the artist’s websites

Actual Size Artworks: www.actualsizeartworks.com

Teresa Audet: www.teresaaudet.com

Jeff Chelf: www.jeffchelf.com

Aris Georgiades: www.arisgeorgiades.com

Sarah FitzSimons: www.sarahfitzsimons.net

Tom Jones: www.tomjoneshochunk.com

Henrique Nardi: www.behance.net/henriquenardi

Darcy Padilla: www.darcypadilla.com

Gail Simpson: www.gailsimpsonsculpture.com

Carley Schmidt: www.carleyschmidtart.com

Ian Van D.: www.ianvand.art

Matthew Vivirito: www.MatthewVivirito.com

Brittany Weekley: www.brittanyweekley.com

Derick Wycherly: www.derickwycherly.com

Artwork Information:

Actual Size Artworks. Sad Yeti, Steel, chickenwire, textile, 8′ x 6′ x 5’6″, 2021. Image by Mark Fitzgerald, City of Madison.

Darcy Padilla. "Ice." Pigment inkjet print on resin coated paper. 2019-2020.

Thank you to the jurors of Winter is Alive! A cooler world carnival for providing supportive and creative insights during the project selection process! Jurors include: Kate Bowen, TetraPAKMAN, Aris Georgiades and Gail Simpson of Actual Size Artworks, Tom Jones, Bethany Jurewicz, Marc La Pointe, Tamsie Ringler, and Glenn Williams. Thank you!

Artwork Information: Glenn Williams. “ICU.” Wood, Found Objects, Stainless Steel Cable, 8’ x 7″ x 4.5′, 2021. Images Courtesy of Arts + Literature Laboratory.

Huge thank you to all of the artists, activists, makers and thinkers who presented their work and shared in the discourse of online forums and presentations during Winter is Alive! a cooler world carnival. Special thanks to Rob DZ for hosting the Opening-Mic event, Angie Trudell-Vasquez for hosting A Live-Share, Dawry Ruiz and the JVN Project team, Lynn Battaglia for organizing and hosting the Climate ExChange, Tova Gorman-Baer for hosting Global Cooling Generation and TetraPAKMAN for curating, Aaron Granat and Thomas Ferrella for producing and presenting Shadowlands, Marc La Pointe for organizing and hosting Iceberg of Activism: The Hidden Part of Organizing Change and performatively hosting In-Closing and to Charles Payne, James Edward Mills and Humbird for organizing, hosting and performing Music and Lyrics 4: Force for Nature.

The virtual projects and events were supported by Dane Arts. Special thank you to Mark Fraire of Dane Arts, Aaron Granat for video and technical production, and Anders Zanichkowsky for technical realization and production and to all of the participants and viewers of the virtual projects!

For more information about the online events, visit: www.winterisalive.org/index.php/virtual-events

For information about the performance and narrative artists: www.winterisalive.org/index.php/narrative-perforamce-projects

Participating Artists: Adriana Barrios, Rainer Bartesch, Ian Van D., Lynn Dennison, Laura Feldberga, Thomas Ferrella Aaron Granat, Madison Golden, Humbird, Justine Johnson, Marc La Pointe, James Edward Mills, Catherine Murray, Aly Ogasian, Claudia O’Steen, Anna Orbovich, Darcy Padilla, Charles Payne, Christopher D. Sims, Antoaneta Tica, Tona Williams, Diana Woodcock, and Anders Zanichkowsky.

Visit their websites:

Adriana Barrios: www.adrianabarriosart.com

Ian Van D.: www.ianvand.art

Lynn Dennison: www.lynndennison.com

Laura Feldberga: www.laurafeldberga.lv

Thomas Ferrella: www.ferrella.com

Aaron Granat: www.vimeo.com/aarongranat

Madison Golden: www.mydailyimpact.com

Humbird: www.humbird.bandcamp.com

Justine Johnson: www.justinejohnson.co.uk

The JVN Project: www.thejvnproject.org

Marc La Pointe: www.marclapointe.com

James Edward Mills: www.joytripproject.com

Aly Ogasian: www.alysonogasian.com

Claudia O’Steen: www.claudiaosteen.com

Anna Orbovich: www.annaeorbovich.com

Darcy Padilla: www.darcypadilla.com

Charles Payne: www.artlitlab.org/events/music-and-lyrics-ii-wanna-wang-and-matthew-charles #

Christopher D. Sims: www.spark.adobe.com/page/px076vPfyK0uo/ and www.spark.adobe.com/page/4mJPJwBUZrcx3/

TetraPAKMAN: www.usgathering.info

Antoaneta Tica: www.behance.net/AntoanetaTica

Angie Trudell-Vasquez: www.angietrudellvasquez.com

Tona Williams: www.tonawilliams.com

Anders Zanichkowsky: www.anderszanichkowsky.com

Artwork Information:

Rainer Bartesch. “Our World is On Fire: An Oratory for Our Future.” Video stills. 2021. Film makers Vincent Wild and Alexander Kleinrensing who made “Luminous Delusion,” Munich.

Laura Feldberga. “Intensive Care.” Performance Video. 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

Justine Johnson. “Calling The Light.” Video performance art, poetry. 2021.

Marc La Pointe. “Wading (and waiting).” Performance video with orange felt and clouds. Images by Jasán Lagrimanta. Thank you to Anders Zanichkowsky for film editing support.

Anna Orbovich. “mid winter thaw.” Durational drawings using roadside snowmelt, paper, pen, video, project. 11” x 15” each. 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.