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Off the Wall: ‘Winterlace’ and ‘Spill’ by Helen Klebesadel

When Donna Silver took a new job as secretary of the academic staff at UW-Madison, the first thing she did was transform it.

“This office was a very dreary, dark, not-welcoming place,” Silver said.

With the help of Helen Klebesadel, director of the UW System Womenâ??s Studies Consortium and a local watercolor painter, Silver installed track lighting, hooks and nine of Klebesadelâ??s richly textured paintings.