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Travis Head: Artist Talk & Opening Reception

ArtsFest Advance! Featured Artist

The University of Wisconsin–La Crosse School of Visual & Performing Arts will welcome nationally exhibiting visual artist Travis Head to campus this March as part of its ArtsFest Advance! guest artist series.

Head will present an artist talk at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in Room 116 of the Truman T. Lowe Center for the Arts, followed by a public reception at 5 p.m. celebrating the opening of his exhibition, Busy Boys, Better Boys, in the UWL Art Gallery. All events are free and open to the public.

The exhibition “Travis Head: Busy Boys, Better Boys” will be on view March 26–April 12, 2026, in the UWL Art Gallery, located on the first floor of the Lowe Center for the Arts.

Head’s work combines drawing and writing to explore personal narrative, memory, and the everyday accumulation of lived experience. Through layered imagery and text, his drawings function as documentary records that capture fragments of daily life and transform them into visually rich storytelling.

“ArtsFest Advance! allows our students and community to engage directly with accomplished artists whose work is shaping contemporary creative practice,” said the School of Visual & Performing Arts. “Travis Head’s work demonstrates how visual art can merge storytelling, observation, and personal history in compelling ways.”

Head’s artwork has been exhibited widely throughout the United States. He has received prestigious artist residencies at organizations including MacDowell, Yaddo, Ox-Bow, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and he was awarded a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship. Head holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and currently serves as Associate Professor of Drawing at Virginia Tech’s School of Visual Arts.

During his residency at UWL, Head will also work directly with students through a hands-on Risograph workshop held March 23 and March 25 in the University Art Gallery. Participants will experiment with drawing, writing, and collage to construct short visual narratives while learning Risograph printing techniques.

Head’s visit is part of ArtsFest Advance!, a series of guest artist residencies leading up to ArtsFest Weekend, UW–La Crosse’s annual celebration of the arts that highlights the creativity and achievements of students, faculty, and guest artists across the visual and performing arts.

The UWL Art Gallery is open 1–8 p.m. Monday–Thursday and 1–5 p.m. Friday–Sunday, and all exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.

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When

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  • 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 26

Where

116 Lowe Center for the Arts

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University of Wisconsin - La Crosse Lowe Center for the Arts

If you go

  • Free, no registration needed

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact Pete Rydberg at 608.785.8446 or prydberg@uwlax.edu.

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