Madison — Milwaukee-based digital artist Beverly Richey decided to go to Madison this week primarily to meet a friend.
That friend had said she would be attending the conference “Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture” that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mosse/ Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies hosted this week. So Richey decided to go to the conference as well.
But after she attended the weeklong conference’s first day Monday at the university’s Pyle Center, Richie was glad to be part of the event.
She heard ideas and observations that “will affect my thinking about my own work,” said Richey, who is Jewish.
She was not the only one of the 96 people present Monday who felt that way.
