THE SUN WILL FIND US is a site-specific work created for the community and neighbors surrounding the Thurber Park Studio on display through November 15, 2025.
“The community in our physical vicinity is the community we have to rely on to keep each other safe, to make change, and to lean on in a crisis.
How do we connect to them more at a time when we are increasingly isolated from each other?“”
— Jennie Bastian on The Sun Will Find Us
In it’s entirety, THE SUN WILL FIND US contains 13 banners across 10 sites.
This exhibition, Our Result of ‘Doing Something’, brings together 10+ years of work by TetraPAKMAN, including paintings, prints, collages, repurposed artifacts, and community-generated social sculptures. These pieces are displayed alongside the creative works of library patrons and local community members made during his 7-month artist residency at Central Library. The exhibition deeply engages with our climate crisis, bll 28, 2025.
200 block of Oak St*
2000 block of Union St
3000 block of James St
100 block of Powers Ave
Corner of Memphis Ave & St. Paul Ave
3325 Thurber Ave
400 block of Memphis Ave
500 block of Rethke Ave
St. Paul Community Garden
Corner of Memphis Ave
& Thurber Ave
*Secret second banner on this site is visible from Reger Park!
The Thurber Park Artist Residency:
3325 Thurber Ave
Fall 2024 - Fall 2025
As part of his residency at Central Library, TetraPAKMAN has worked with the public over the last seven months to paint an additional 21 climate sheets during open studio hours, workshops, and other special events, while discussing personal responsibility, privilege, and collective climate action with patrons of all ages. Visit TetraPAKMAN’s residency page.
THE SUN WILL FIND US is a site-specific work created for the community and neighbors surrounding the Thurber Park Studio. I am compelled to connect to the world around me through art. My time at this artist residency has deepened my commitment to creating work that is outward-facing, publicly engaged, and often made in collaboration with others.
I owe immense gratitude to those who have donated sheets, cut and sewn squares of fabric, offered to host banners on their homes and in their yards, and installing them. Thank you to everyone that has given their time and energy to this work.
A Note From the Artist:
The Keeling Curve data
Thank you:
Thank you to the dedicated Madison Public Library staff and Central Library patrons who helped make this possible!
A special thank you to those who assisted in the three-floor installation of ‘Wake Up!’ at Central Library including: Pablo Baxter, Lars Koch, Samuel Johnson, Mitch Johnson, Stephen Balsley, Emily Balsley, Christine Holm, Maria Schirmer, Kathy Walker, Lauren Scanlon, Nate Smith, Ali Loker, Shloka Mohanty, Yasmin Trammel, Elee Sharpe, Aaron Gavney, Isabel Chiriboga-Pineda, and our special artist-in-residence Giacomo.
TetraPAKMAN’s residency is made possible thanks to The Friends of Madison Public Library.