Exhibition celebrates 40 years of the Madison Senior Center
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~ The Madison Senior Center is celebrating its 40th anniversary with the exhibition "Our Madison: Aging Vibrantly", featuring the work of six prominent senior artists. The exhibition, which opens tonight, September 21st, 2023 and will remain up until the end of December, showcases artwork created by or depicting Madison seniors living full and healthy lives.

Nick Pjevach, chair of the Madison Arts Commission, expressed his excitement for the exhibition. "It is so exciting to highlight the talents of our creative community with this special exhibition. May this artwork be the perfect way to celebrate the anniversary of this important community space."

Yusuf Bin-Rella is a local chef, farmer and artist whose non-profit TradeRoots Culinary Collective connects people with land, each other and their roots. For this exhibition he created illustrations of BiPOC people producing their own healthy food and enjoying their lives to the fullest. Beloved local artist and arts educator Jerry Butler has been enjoying a thriving arts career in his mid-70s. He received a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from UW Madison before teaching art for MMSD and becoming Associate Dean of Madison Technical College. His works on loan for this exhibition are centered on his grandmother who sowed seeds of art and creativity into his DNA.

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Amos Kennedy finished his MFA here in Madison in 1997 but now lives and works in Detroit Michigan where he is best known for his social and political commentary in his work. He has graciously loaned images to the City for various exhibitions including this one at the Madison Senior Center. Philip Salamone is a classically trained portrait painter who studied at Grand Central Atelier in New York before teaching at Madison College as well as maintaining his own studio offering workshops and classes at Atwood Atelier. He included 20 paintings he has made of Madisonians over 50 that he invited to sit for their portraits for this exhibition.

Hedi Lamarr Rudd is a community leader and storyteller who has been documenting countless Madison community events over the last decades devoted to creating racial justice through her photography which she presents photos of elders she encountered at many community events in Madison for this exhibition. Babette Wainwright has lived, worked, raised her family in Madison for 40 years as an internationally exhibited sculptor whose work relates to both her Haitian and African roots after receiving her MFA in ceramics from UW Madison in 2000 winning multiple awards for her ceramic sculpture which can be found around the world including pieces on loan here at the Senior Center's exhibition.

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The public is invited to visit during working hours Monday - Friday 8:30 am – 4:00 pm to enjoy these phenomenal local artists' works on loan courtesy of The Madison Arts Commission whose mission it is to foster arts appreciation by initiating partnerships, developing new audiences, sponsoring diverse artistic activities by emerging and established artists while preserving Madisons rich artistic tradition

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