by Shane McAdams | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog
On my first day of class in Wisconsin, I dropped a “Breakfast Club†reference that thudded like Judd Nelson’s career after “From the Hip.†And I immediately felt a compulsion to familiarize myself with contemporary popular culture. A man in my upper 30’s,...
by Shane McAdams | Jan 28, 2013 | Blog
I have a confession to make: sometimes on Mondays, when I’m in my studio in Cedarburg, working late, I sneak out the back door and down a back stairway to catch the second half of the Big 12 college basketball game at TJ Ryan’s bar on Washington Avenue. The act...
by Shane McAdams | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
The Home Depot is to many contemporary artists in 2013 what the art supply store was in 1913 – a place to wander aimlessly when ideas aren’t coming, hoping for a Eureka. To this day a Home Depot excursion still raises my heart rate like a dog about to be let out...
by Shane McAdams | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog
My art department’s field trip this semester was to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit the Chazen Art Museum. Like many museums, the Chazen’s permanent collection unfolds chronologically, progressing through art eras room-by-room, with the preponderance of work...
by Shane McAdams | Nov 26, 2012 | Blog
My wife and my new daughter and I celebrated our first Thanksgiving in Cedarburg last week in the manner her family has for decades; by dressing up as pilgrims, Indians, and a single dubiously distinguished guest donning a turkey costume. As I held my daughter...
