“I learned about Mildred because she is from Wisconsin and there was a Mildred Harnack Day in Wisconsin every year on her birthday. She is a Milwaukee native and she attended UW-Madison.”
Sanford Biggers constantly looks for creative ways to spark challenging conversations through his painting, sculpture, video and live performances. Sanford, who is black, says art plays a vital role in promoting those conversations, especially when topics become volatile and uncomfortable to discuss.
Japan’s “floating world” has long provided the West with fantasies of both attachment and detachment, with the promise of refashioning our lives by “decluttering” and surrounding ourselves with only the most exquisite objects. Marie Kondo offers us a dream of minimalist Japanese beauty not unlike the dream of Japan that first enchanted the West in the Victorian period.
During September workshops, UW-Madison scientists and local and national streets artists will design murals on themes including molecular structure, astrophysics and diversity in science. The exact number of murals will depend on how much money WID is able to raise.
Film2Future, which has served more than 100 students so far, stays with students throughout their high school years – its first graduating class begins college this fall, with four students earning full-ride scholarships to Syracuse, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USC and the University of Chicago.
Before he was a Tony award-winning actor and ahead of becoming a Broadway legend, André De Shields was cast as Tiger Lily in a “Peter Pan” play on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that caused a stir for its nude depictions of sirens.
This is the story of a book deal, a substantial advance and the kismet of a cultural moment. It’s about a first-time author finding her subject and following her dream. And it begins with women talking to each other — about their voices.
Before he was a Tony award-winning actor and ahead of becoming a Broadway legend, André De Shields was cast as Tiger Lily in a “Peter Pan” play on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison that caused a stir for its nude depictions of sirens.
At 73, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus André De Shields receieved his first Tony Award in the category of Best Actor in a Featured Role. We talk to the actor about his performance in the Tony-winning musical “Hadestown.”
Noted: “There isn’t a huge market for studio art in Madison. I’ve sold one or two pieces in the last two years — my markets are Texas and New York,” says Michael Velliquette, an associate professor at UW-Madison who calls his work “paper sculpture.” His contributions to CSArt are small paper “meditation tools.”
The program’s near-century of summers will be lauded June 27 at a Summer Music Clinic 90th Anniversary Celebration held on campus at the University Club. The $25 fee to attend the celebration will benefit the long-running camp and scholarships (the deadline to purchase tickets is Wednesday).
Noted: Born in Madison, Metz White earned a bachelor’s degree in art education from UW-Madison and moved to Milwaukee, where she taught creative arts at Urban Day School.
We have in our group, two members of the Pro Arte Quartet from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, players from Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Milwaukee Symphony, and players who have performed with the Atlanta Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago Philharmonic.
Abloh and West go way back, to the artist/designer’s days as a grad student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where in 2002 the two met. Abloh would go on to become West’s creative director.
In a career spanning fifty years, André De Shields has distinguished himself as an unparalleled actor, director, choreographer and educator. Mr. De Shields is an esteemed alumnus of both the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2004 Doctor of Fine Arts honoris causa) and New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Madison just dedicated its newest work of public art, a massive sculpture, “Both/And — Tolerance/Innovation,” which has been completed on lower State Street, adjacent to Library Mall.
Phúc will speak from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pyle Center, about her experience on the 47th anniversary of the napalm attack that her village experienced during the Vietnam War. Nick Ut, the photographer who captured an iconic war image of Phúc’s pain and desperation, will make a special appearance as well.
De Shields’ Broadway credits include ‘The Wiz’ and ‘The Full Monty’. Film credits include ‘Prison’ and ‘Extreme Measures’. His television résumé includes an Emmy Award winning performance in ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’’.
De Shields has previously been nominated twice, but has never taken home an award.
The Baltimore native began his career at UW-Madison in 1968 when he appeared in a nude production of “Peter Pan.”
Ralph Russo once carried the late great Maya Angelou’s grocery bags around Kohl’s after she gave a lecture at the Wisconsin Union Theater. He was the one tasked with breaking the news of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to Angela Davis, whose home was in Oakland. In 2007, he ushered French jazz star Madeleine Peyroux out of the Union Theater after her sold-out Isthmus Jazz Festival performance and watched her jaw drop as she witnessed thousands of people gyrating on the Terrace to Madisalsa.
Ralph Russo once carried the late great Maya Angelou’s grocery bags around Kohl’s after she gave a lecture at the Wisconsin Union Theater. He was the one tasked with breaking the news of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to Angela Davis, whose home was in Oakland. In 2007, he ushered French jazz star Madeleine Peyroux out of the Union Theater after her sold-out Isthmus Jazz Festival performance and watched her jaw drop as she witnessed thousands of people gyrating on the Terrace to Madisalsa.
Christine DeSmet, faculty associate in writing for UW-Madison Continuing Studies and director of the June 17-21 Write-by-the-Lake Writer’s Workshop and Retreat, said there are likely three big reasons Wisconsin is home to so many mystery writers .One is the support writers receive from UW-Madison, UW-Extension and associations throughout the state, DeSmet said in an email. “It certainly helps to have conferences like the annual UW-Madison Writers’ Institute that brings in literary agents looking for mystery books as well as suspense and thrillers,” she said.
It was summer on the Pacific coast and Ani Michaud, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was standing at a small fish tank in the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, peering through a camera’s viewfinder.
The most dangerous places on the planet exert an irresistible pull on Lynsey Addario.
You could romanticize it as a balcony, but really it’s an ornate fire escape, painted creamy beige and stretched across the facade of the Walter Kerr Theater. And if you’d glanced up from West 48th Street early one evening this month, you’d have spied a tableau of considerable glamour and grace: André De Shields, in citrus-striped coat and zebra-striped shoes, posing for the camera with the animate aplomb of a model who just happens to be a dancer.
Noted: A big assist came from Janet Gilmore, UW-Madison professor of landscape architecture and folklore studies. Gilmore will facilitate audience discussions after performances on May 24, 30 and June 1.
The facility will offer new opportunities to showcase a film collection held in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin that’s one of the largest Hollywood archives in the world.
Noted: Out of West High, where he met Linda — they’ll celebrate 50 years of marriage in August, the same month David turns 70 — Maraniss attended UW-Madison but did not graduate. He wasn’t much of a student, preferring chess games at the Union to class.
UW-Madison’s legendary band director is about to take his final bow.After 50 years, Mike Leckrone is preparing for one last commencement. He told WKOW his final year at UW-Madison has been “breathtaking.”
Almost a year ago, a viral photograph of high school students mugging for the camera with a Nazi salute after a prom in Baraboo caused a worldwide scandal. Since then, some prominent Madisonians have joined with residents of the Sauk County town in public education efforts about the grim realities of fascism and the legacy of the Holocaust. Among these is Teryl Dobbs, associate professor and chair of music education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Music. Having long studied the music of Eastern European Jews under Nazi occupation, Professor Dobbs will share her research with the public at the Baraboo First United Methodist Church on Thursday, May 2nd at 6:30 pm.
Noted: Finalists for the interior piece include Maria Amalia Wood, a Honduran-born textile artist and recent master of fine arts graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Human Ecology.
Noted: The UW-Madison MFA candidate’s current show runs through July 26 at the Central Library.
Noted: Teryl Dobbs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison music professor, will present the free community event “Music, Remembrance, and Repairing Our World: Lessons on Yom Ha’Shoah” on Thursday at First United Methodist Church. Through her work, she has interviewed Holocaust survivors and studied testimony and oral history, with a focus on how they made music while undergoing hardship and oppression.
Noted: Abdu’allah, who is 49, has lived in the United States since 2014, where he is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but visits his home town regularly.
Noted: De Shields said he was “the only hippie” from his family. “I grew up during the summers of love in ’64 and ’65. I’m the one who went to college [the University of Wisconsin-Madison]. I’m the one who brought white friends back to the ’hood. People said, ‘Is André crazy? But I’m the one who made it beyond 25, because growing up in Baltimore you had to check yourself, ’cause 25 is old age.
It’s a passing of the baton over at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The school has named a new marching band director for the first time in five decades.
Corey Pompey has been selected for the role of UW Marching Band director starting this summer.
The University of Wisconsin has chosen a new leader of its famous marching band.
Corey Pompey, director of athletic bands and associate director of bands at the University of Nevada, Reno, starts in July.
“Corey Pompey is the clear choice,” said Susan Cook, director of the School of Music, in UW-Madison’s announcement. “He has a deep musicianship along with an enthusiasm and energy on the podium that was infectious; he really connected with the students.”
After 50 years of marching to the same beat, UW-Madison announced they have selected a new band director to replace Wisconsin legend Mike Leckrone.
UW selects new leader after 50 years under Michael Leckrone’s leadership.
Noted: Muir, a native of Scotland and our trail’s namesake, didn’t spend a lot of his youth roaming this idyllic countryside. His father was demanding and strict, working his children long hours, six days a week. The family emigrated from Scotland to Wisconsin in 1849 when Muir was 11. Studying at the University of Wisconsin unleashed his passion for the natural world and conservation. A champion of protecting wild places, he eventually would become known as the “Father of the National Parks.”
Along with Neil Diamond’s 1969 “Sweet Caroline” and a speech from Robert F. Kennedy, the earliest known recordings of Yiddish music are now officially considered national treasures.
Roman Catholic leaders believed a consecrated church was “protected space,” says Karl Shoemaker, a professor of history and law at the University of Wisconsin and author of Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages, 400-1500. “It would be inappropriate in the extreme to carry weapons into the church or to arrest someone or to exercise force within the church.”
“What if this is what a line looks like when it’s giving you an idea?” she wondered. That may certainly be the case as people easily develop theories, often through haphazard scribbles on any available surface. She recounted students writing on both sides of the glass at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches.
The UK only began to track diversity in children’s books last year. In the US, where the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has tracked diversity statistics for years, campaigners recently pointed to a “seismic shift” in representation, with the number of children’s books featuring African-American characters more than doubling over the last 10 years, and the number featuring Asians more than tripling.
UW-Madison’s music library is home to wax cylinders holding the oldest known recordings of Yiddish songs, made between 1901-1905. We talk to a librarian about the music, which is now part of the National Recording Registry.
Natasha Oladokun is a poet, but she didn’t grow up reading much poetry. She wasn’t really aware contemporary poets existed or that poetry was a legitimate academic pursuit.
Mike Leckrone said goodbye Saturday night, after 50 years as director of the University of Wisconsin Marching Band and 45 years of spring concerts.
According to a spokesperson for UW-Madison, Leckrone will also take part in the annual free concert and reception April 28 at 2 p.m. on campus. Leckrone will also take part in the commencement ceremonies on May 10 and 11.
“It’s an amazing thing — this idea of commissioning playwrights to create work” for this age group, said Jessica Fisch, who teaches acting at the University of Illinois-Chicago and is directing “Twilight Bowl” for UW-Madison’s Department of Theatre and Drama.
University of Wisconsin Band Director Mike Leckrone has become a Madison icon. Leckrone, 82, took over the band in 1969, when it was what he called “a sleeping giant.”
The Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) hosted the 13th Annual Line Breaks Festival last week featuring performances, lectures, and discussions by First Wave student scholars, alumni and invited professional artists.
The program will be presented by Dr. Teryl Dobbs, a music professor and chair of music education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and researcher affiliated with the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies.
In March 1975, just five years into his career, Leckrone, then 37, decided an end-of-the-year gathering for his Marching and Varsity bands would be nice.
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Babcock Hall’s newest flavor is called March on Leckrone. The flavor is a vanilla cranberry swirl ice cream with white chocolate flakes.
University of Wisconsin Director of Bands Mike Leckrone has said over the years, he would know when it was time to retire.Now that the moment is almost here, Leckrone has mixed feelings.
Levenhagen is the band’s talented seamstress — the woman behind Leckrone’s elaborate costumes for the past 27 years — and she was still busy hand-crafting this year’s suit the day before the first of three shows.
