Spring break next week will be a good time to go down on campus, find parking and check out the extensive show of University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty art at the Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave.

I'd be interested in knowing what your favorite art work is and why?

My own preference run to furniture maker Tom Loeser's boat-like wooden spars and ribs (see at left). They exude a grace and sense of line second to none.

I also very like the combination of two-dimensional art and 3-D transparency in Steve Feren's glass panels, with their embedded scenes (below at right).

There is a computer installation by Laurie Beth

Clark kids too might like and some great large works of abstract art by Derrick Buisch, some oil paintings by Carol Pylant and some video art by Douglas Rosenberg and Frances Myers, photography by Jim Escalante and digital prints by Jack Damer.

If you want to celebrate Women's History Month, which takes place in March, you might also look at the art work "Four Women" by artist Elaine Scheer and literature professor Emily Auerbach. They collaborated on making original cards that deal with 16 women characters in four major works by women writers (Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" and Alice Walker's "The Color Purple.") Each character has a hand-painted card of her own (Jo's card for "Little Women is shown here at below right.) The point is to raise public awareness of women writers.

The faculty show ends March 30.

For more information. Call 608 263-2246 or visit www.chazen.wisc.edu.

Admission is free to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Chazen is closed Mondays and major holidays.

So let Art Talk know what works you liked most and enjoyed most?

And what works you enjoyed least.

Also, what you think of the overall quality of the UW faculty art show?

You be the critic.