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Longtime UHD Professor of Art Floyd Newsum Receives First Major Retrospective at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

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Houston, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Professor of Art at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) for 47 years and Project Row Houses Co-Founder Floyd Newsum is presenting his first large-scale retrospective, Evolution of Sight, at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin, from May 20 through October 8, 2023.

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  • Houston, May 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Professor of Art at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) for 47 years and Project Row Houses Co-Founder Floyd Newsum is presenting his first large-scale retrospective, Evolution of Sight, at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin, from May 20 through October 8, 2023.
  • As Newsum explains, “My career covers 50-plus years of creating works of art that are exploring color, marks, and surfaces in various mediums.
  • “Floyd Newsum is a leading artist whose work has been shown and represented in major institutions and collections across the United States,” said Cross.
  • As part of the MMoCA exhibition, Newsum will engage Dane County–area youth and communities through Art Cart, MMoCA’s summer outdoor art-making program.