Overture Galleries
Winter 2025/26 Exhibitions Reception
Friday, January 9
5:30pm - 8:30pm
6pm - Artist Talks on Rotunda Stage
Overture Galleries & Rotunda Stage
Free
Age Recommendation
All ages
Join us for a reception and artist talks celebrating Overture Galleries' Winter 2025/26 Exhibitions! This season’s artwork examines how personal, family and cultural histories shape the ways we live and create. The artists translate memory and identity into a variety of visual art forms. Each exhibition invites reflection on resilience, revealing that cultural heritage is continually renewed through art, storytelling and shared experience. Together, these works illuminate how creativity helps to shape belonging across generations and cultures.
Gallery I: Entre Memorias y Nepantla
Ariana Gutierrez & Christie Tirado
Gallery II: Manifest Black
Marlon Howard Banks & Sharon L. Bjyrd
Gallery III: Where Do You Wander?
Shlomit Cohen Kafri & Connie Yu
Playhouse Gallery: 2025 Indiana Green Invitational - Curated by Artdose Magazine
Liala Amin, Amal Azzam, Geornica Daniels, Nehemiah R. Edwards, Gabriela Marván, Fernando Rico, Sonia Vasquez
Rotunda Gallery: Portraits as Jazz / Improvisation in Sound; Improvisation in Form
Martel Chapman
Rotunda Studio: Earthlings: Revisited
Jeanne C. Wilkinson
Overture Galleries
Each year, Overture Galleries mount four cycles of seasonal exhibitions in five galleries, providing a forum for diverse artistic expression and showcasing local artists across all visual media. Free and open to the public.
Sponsors
Overture Galleries are supported by Wealthspire, The Arts Access Fund, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation, and by contributions to Overture Center for the Arts.
Upcoming Visual Arts Events
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April 30
Thursday
Educational/Talks, Free Events, Visual Arts Spring 2026 Exhibitions Reception
Overture Galleries
Join us for a reception and artist talks celebrating the Spring 2026 Overture Galleries. Centered on storytelling, our Spring Exhibitions feature artists who translate personal narrative into book-based and ceramic sculptures, symbolic mixed-media works and more.
5:30 PM -
May 9
Saturday
Educational/Talks, Visual Arts Slow Art: Making Responsive Artist Books
Overture Galleries
Join us for a Slow Art experience beginning with a guided meditation in Wisconsin Studio, followed by a contemplative viewing of works by Gallery I artists Katherine Steichen Rosing and Sandra Schoen. The event concludes with a hands-on book-making workshop and reflection exercise led by the artists.
10:00 AM