Noted: Ms. Coyne’s references to writers will be the focus of an exhibition in 2021 at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Amy Gilman, director of the Chazen, finds the sculptures “evocative in the way that great literature stays with you,” she said. “Petah’s work exposes private things without being explicit, these deep wells of memory and meaning and relationship.”
Art and science joined forces as part of a recent collaboration among area high school students, UW-Madison physicists and Madison-based writers and visual and performing artists.
Noted: After two years as an instructor at Long Beach City College, Warrington came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a one-year appointment and stayed for the rest of his long teaching career. Serigraphy, that is, silk-screen prints, began to replace his paintings by the mid-1950s although water-colors were to remain essential as preliminary studies for his prints.
Former UW-Madison First Wave Urban Arts performance poet Danez Smith has won the prestigious Forward Prize for Best Collection in London, England, and at age 29, he’s the youngest poet ever to win.
Warrington Colescott, a printmaker and former art professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been described as a “social scold” and a “mad-dog attack artist” with a humorous and deeply humane side.
Go Big Read is a program promoting the enjoyment of literature among students on campus as well as members of the surrounding community. Each year, UW selects a new, academically focused book for participants to read, as well as hosts a variety of classroom discussions and campus events about it.
The exhibit is a Madison Arts Commission BLINK temporary public art project created by Ben Orozco and Emily Leach, two BFA students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
The goal of the festival is to broaden horizons, particularly for UW students, and serve as a platform for artists who may be very well-known in their countries but haven’t performed in the United States yet.
It was all worth it. That is, the recently concluded Bucky On Parade program, aka a giant gauntlet of latter-day Hummel figurines, aka let’s decorate different versions of the same sculpture 85 whole times and place most of them within a few blocks of each other, but also put a real scary one all by its lonesome in Sun Prarie, was worth it because it gave us Visible Bucky.
A four-month public art display of 85 colorful, life-sized Bucky Badger statues wrapped up this week in Dane County. Bucky on Parade encouraged families throughout the city, and state, to see all 85 Bucky statues.
Noted: The timing was certainly right, coming right after Sidran had compiled personal papers and artifacts for his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. “I had gone through all these tapes, so I knew what was there,” Sidran tells Billboard. “I knew where all the great stuff was, so it came together very quickly. I had literally hundreds of tracks to choose from. “
WRAP began at UW-Madison in 1940 to foster creativity in rural areas. Now part of Continuing Studies, WRAP partners with the nonprofit Wisconsin Regional Artists Association (WRAA) to showcase artists in rural and urban areas statewide.
Noted: The singer, rapper and producer (who goes by his first name) is halfway to earning an art degree at UW-Madison, where he is also working toward a certificate in Afro-American studies. The outspoken campus activist released an excellent album in February, Dequadray! A Black Sitcom, and is currently writing and experimenting with new songs while carving out a path in Madison as a queer, black artist.
UW-Madison alums will be the focus of Cinematheque’s “Spotlight on Documentary” series, Sept. 6-7.
If you really want to know how people use the English language in North America, you will find one consistently reliable peer-reviewed source of information, four times a year: the journal American Speech, sponsored by the American Dialect Society and published by Duke University Press. And though it is scholarly and research based, there’s a surprising amount of information that is intelligible to anyone, even without special training in linguistics. The current editor is Thomas C. Purnell of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Michael Leckrone, longtime director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Marching Band, announced Saturday that he will step down at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.
University of Wisconsin marching band director Michael Leckrone says he’s stepping down at the end of the school year.
Noted: At the center is an enormous portrait of Freddie Mae Hill, the first African American to graduate from UW-Madison. Hill’s family is well-represented at the event, dressed up and posing for pictures in front of their now-famous relative.
I have no doubt it’ll be an interesting picture, as Mr. Chazelle is an interesting and energetic filmmaker (although his work isn’t always entirely compatible with my taste). FilmStruck’s Criterion Channel is now showing a chat with Mr. Chazelle, conducted at the University of Wisconsin, as part of its “Masterclass” series of film supplements. The movie he lauds therein is “Chronicle of a Summer,” the 1961 French documentary directed by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin.
She has also been selected as artist-in-residence at Isle Royale National Park, Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, and UW-Madison Center for Limnology Research Station at Trout Lake.
Honored: Chris Walker, artist director, First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble at UW–Madison
UW–Madison Center for the Humanities, Sara Guyer, director
Specific programs recognized are HEX-U, Humanities Without Boundaries and Humanities NOW
Johannes Wallmann, UW–Madison Jazz Studies
Tandem Press, printmaking studio and gallery, UW–Madison School of Education
Timothy Yu, poet and professor, UW–Madison English and Asian American Studies
Having grown used to the solo, acoustic performances and revivalist lyrics that flowed from Bob Dylan, his fans cried a united foul when he showed up defaced by commercialism at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
When Bob Dylan showed up to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival with an electric guitar and a full backing band, many fans decried he had turned his back on folk music. It turns out this debate over what exactly is “folk” has been happening for a long time.We speak to a UW-Madison student who was recently awarded a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution to zero in on how people in 20th century America defined “folk?”
A University of Wisconsin-Madison student isn’t letting hemophilia stop him from pursuing his dream of both performing and teaching piano, but an expensive medication is allowing him to do so.
Noted: Fledermaus, which runs July 20-29 at UW-Madison’s Music Hall, is also the first directorship for Shelton, a lyric tenor who has performed in theaters around town and in the blockbuster opera, Dead Man Walking (Madison Opera, 2014). For a director whose heart is in comedy, Fledermaus is a perfect fit.
Noted: Jose Lerma, who earned a master’s degree in painting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been involved with the Green Gallery since its earliest days, was commissioned to create a diptych, which is installed in an expansive marble passageway.
Kangwoo is a doctoral student in piano at UW-Madison and a teacher who’s won at least 10 prestigious competitions. He’s performed as a soloist with the UW Symphony Orchestra and on Wisconsin Public Radio.
Lucy Tan’s ambitious debut novel, What We Were Promised, grew out of a short story she penned while she was a part of UW-Madison’s prestigious master’s program in fiction writing … Since graduating from the MFA program in 2016, Tan has split her time between NYC and Shanghai, but she’ll be back in Madison this fall as part of the UW-Madison faculty; she has been selected as this year’s James C. McCreight fiction fellow. She corresponded with Isthmus by email about what it means to her to return to Madison just as the novel that was born here makes its arrival into the world.
Iva Ugrcic moved to the United States because, as a musician, she was frustrated with gender inequality on her home continent.
Noted: In 2005, she won a scholarship to study in Paris, earning a master’s in solo flute performance. She taught in Belgrade and Paris before moving to pursue a doctorate at the UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music on a fellowship in 2014. She’s performed internationally and regionally with orchestras and as a soloist, and with jazz, blues and alternative ensembles, including Madison’s Sound Out Loud collective. She’s recorded two CDs — one classical and one by a contemporary female composer from Romania — and won awards for her performances and leadership.
Noted: Clark and Peterson, two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors known in their collaborative artistic work as Spatula & Barcode, planned a Sustainable Food Hackathon for about two dozen people on a recent weekday.
Noted: Knox holds degrees from UW-Madison and The Juilliard School.
Noted: Once upon a time, the new men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton was just a regular middle-class guy from the Midwest. Abloh went to Boylan Catholic High School. He was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a degree in civil engineering, later receiving his master of architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a stint spent deejaying, Abloh’s fellow Chicagoan and BFF, Kanye West, put him on the fashion path, and in 2009 he scored an internship at Fendi. Today, Abloh is the first African-American to take on the role of creative head at a European luxury fashion house.
Wisconsin, where Moore lived for much of this book’s composition, makes glancing appearances throughout, first as ambivalently but tellingly described as Moore’s husband, and then, with the benefit of distance—a divorce, a move from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to Nashville’s Vanderbilt—regarded in full, with reserved, bone-chilling candor, in a review of Making a Murderer.
Noted: Dohnielle Clayton, an author and COO of the grassroots #weneeddiversebooks, will appear on two panels this week, including one hosted by her organization. She said there has been progress in the industry, but cited a recent study by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center School of Education, based in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing that children’s stories remain predominantly by and about whites.
Edward Peters, from the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Inquisition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). Henry Kamen, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, wrote The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
Shawn Francis Peters couldn’t believe his luck. After writing 2012’s The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era (Oxford University Press), the instructor in UW-Madison’s Integrated Liberal Studies Program was searching for an intriguing Upper Midwest-based true-crime subject when Harry Hayward entered his life.
Now that “Once Upon a Time” has ended its lengthy run at ABC, executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz are moving on to a new adventure. The duo have signed on as writers and executive producers of Steven Spielberg’s revival of “Amazing Stories” for Apple.
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
Using high-tech scanning equipment, so far Connelly and her partners — from the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin-Madison — have begun to analyze stains in two dozen medieval manuscripts.
Two years before Duke Ellington died at 75, he spent a week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison with his orchestra, teaching and performing in concert. Among the indispensable members of his entourage was a lean, legally blind 20-year-old pianist from New York to whom Ellington referred students in his master class.
But in all her years of drawing, the Prairie River Middle School teacher has never had an art project this big.
On Monday the Madison Area Sports Commission unveiled Bucky on Parade, starring 85 6-foot-tall Bucky Badger statues on display throughout downtown Madison, the University of Wisconsin campus and beyond. They represent the work of 64 Madison area and regional artists including award-winning Milton artist Larry Schultz.
From curator to curated, Russell Panczenko follows his retirement last September as museum director of the Chazen Museum of Art with an exhibit of his own photography.
Photojournalist Jeremy Nichols shows you dozens of these statues, some familiar faces, and the stories behind some of them.
Bucky on Parade, which officially launches with unveiling of the statues on Monday morning, is scheduled to run through Sept. 12.
Campo, a fair-trade start-up that sells high quality Badger gear made from Alpaca fiber, has launched its Kickstarter.
Fellow community members came to Fredric March Play Circle to hear several women and non-binary individuals share their experiences as people of color.
The annual “Threads” fashion show, hosted by the School of Human Ecology, displayed a culmination of three semesters’ of hard work this past weekend.
Noted: The University of Wisconsin in Madison has selected Egan’s book as the Go Big Read selection for 2018-’19. Copies will be given to first-year students at the Chancellor’s Convocation for New Students, and the book will be incorporated into some classes. (Past Go Big Read selections include Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted.”)
Mike Leckrone does backflips for Badger fans during musical spectacular.
Noted: The year “The Crossover” was published, the number of diverse children’s books began to increase — those written by and/or about people of color, this according to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an organization that has been collecting statistics about diverse books since 1985.
MADISON, Wis. – Earlier this week, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced its pick for the 2018-2019 Go Big Read book: “The Death of the Great Lakes” by Dan Egan.
These days it’s not unusual to hear a lot of jazz at UW-Madison. You can find it in classrooms, practice rooms and concerts featuring any of the Mead Witter School of Music’s six jazz ensembles.
It’s been a spring tradition on the UW-Madison campus for 70 years–“Humorology”. Students spend much of the year creating and rehearsing mini-musicals, and then compete against each other in the juried show at the Wisconsin Union Theater.
’The Life and Death of the Great Lakes’ hits home for 80 percent of incoming freshmen.
UW-Madison selected “The Death of the Great Lakes” as the 2018-’19 Go Big Read, according to a UW-Madison press release.
While walking through the halls of UW Hospital, you might notice art unlike anything else. Physicians in the hospital’s anesthesiology department decided to find something useful for used vial caps that were once thrown away.
Kewaunee High School was among those from around the state that sent students to the Great World Texts Annual Student Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on April 9.
The UW Varsity Band Concert takes place over 3 nights, Thursday through Saturday. Plus, there’s a very special theme — Camp Randall Stadiums Centennial.
