Most of the artists in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's 2022 Wisconsin Triennial show "Ain't I a Woman?" have asked for a public apology over their treatment and called for the termination of the museum director.
Nearly half the artists have pulled their works from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Arts’ show highlighting the work of Black women and are demanding the museum director’s resignation in protest of what they say has been the museum’s treatment of them and their art.
Madison police have released 18 minutes of surveillance footage, excerpted here, from inside the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and at the top of State Street documenting an incident on June 24, 2022, in which a woman and her two children mistook an intentionally unfinished artwork by Madison artist Lilada Gee as an invitation to create their own work of art. Using paint and glitter, the three marked up several small canvases then took them with them, after two museum staffers tried to intervene. Museum staff confronted the woman again at the top of State Street and ultimately retrieved the works.
Artist Lilada Gee's installation at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, photographed after a woman and two children added paint and glitter to the purposely unfinished piece.
Artist Lilada Gee's installation at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, photographed after a woman and two children added paint and glitter to the purposely unfinished piece.
Most of the artists in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art's 2022 Wisconsin Triennial show "Ain't I a Woman?" have asked for a public apology over their treatment and called for the termination of the museum director.
