WAUSAU — To most people, a chest is just a place to stash polished silverware, tattered underwear, love letters, junk, jewelry, secrets, treasures. It is furniture with a predictable purpose, not interactive artwork. Until now.
“More Than Drawers: Wisconsin Cabinets,” a new exhibit at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, is an exercise in broken stereotypes. Eight of the show’s nine woodworkers live in Dane County. (One of them is UW-Madison art professor Tom Loeser)