Why Files designer flies solo in new exhibition

While she hasn’t quit her day job (designing UW–Madison’s Why Files science-education Web site for the last five years), of late Sue Medaris has been mighty busy outside of work. She’s been readying a 40-piece gallery exhibition, “A One-Chick Show: Of Cocks and Hens,” for its opening Wednesday, Oct. 6, at the downtown Madison Public Library on Mifflin Street. A free public reception will be held at 5 p.m.

Medaris lives on a farm with many chickens, and says she intends this show to capture the essence of chickenhood.

“The portraits and scenes, many of them large-scale, unveil a complex order of life and death in the hen yard, and reflect the struggle for supremacy, survival and procreation,” she says.

The show, complete with a 13-foot chicken in the library’s stairwell, will be up through Saturday, Oct. 30.