“A Concert for Richard,” an all-bass concert featuring faculty from the 25th annual Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists’ Conference, is at 7 p.m. on Friday in the Memorial Union’s Great Hall.
The production, directed by lecturer Drew Sutherland, will be held April 12-29 at the Hemsley Theatre in Vilas Hall.
Going on for over three years, the show brings together students from all over the world as a means of representing cultural diversity.
Members of the University of Wisconsin marching band brought the Fifth Quarter to seniors in the Madison area Tuesday night.
A 25-year plan would consolidate UW Madison’s 20 plus libraries — and renovate existing buildings in a way that consultants say would maximize space.
Aaron Gochberg is getting ready for his big senior recital at UW-Madison on April 8, where he’ll perform on the vast world of instruments that a contemporary percussionist has to master. But first, he’s performing in one of the Mead Witter School of Music‘s most prestigious concerts: The Symphony Showcase, taking place March 18.
Noted: After much debate in the publishing industry, children’s literature is more diverse today than ever before but still is far from representative. Of some 3,500 children’s books received from United States publishers in 2017 by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 116 were by black authors and 319 were about African-American characters, the center said.
Tiana Clark, the Jay C. and Ruth Halls poetry fellow at UW-Madison’s Institute of Creative Writing, won the 2017 Anges Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her collection, “I Can’t Talk about the Trees without the Blood.”
Column by Gloria Ladson-Billings: Unlike its predecessors, “Black Panther” is decidedly black — not just a “white” superhero in blackface. No, “Black Panther” is decidedly political, cultural, spiritual, and racial. It asks its audience to think about the world we created and the world we want to live in.
Noted: This year is the 25th annual Richard Davis Foundation for Young Bassists conference, just one of the extraordinary projects Davis launched during his roughly four decades at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After his recent retirement, I started feeling Davis’s tenure and his dedication—to education, justice, racial equity and healing and, especially, young people—was and continues to be underappreciated.
Johannes Wallmann took a circuitous route to the University of Wisconsin–Madison before saving its jazz program.
Visitors will learn about the “inner beliefs,” so to speak, of architect Wright, and how his personal designing doctrine influenced his design of homes that are spread throughout the country. Three houses that have been called “Wright homes” are in Stark County, although details about those homes are not a part of the exhibition, which was curated by Virginia Terry Boyd, emerita professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and installed at McKinley museum by Kenney. The exhibition was organized by International Arts & Artists in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
The circular forms built into the concrete structure of UW-Madison’s new music hall weren’t put there as windows or for aesthetics.
“I think the reaction to the song was shock; Curtis had been such a voice for harmony and reconciliation,” says Craig Werner, an Afro-American studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.
With that, often comes criticism from the community and competition for the few spaces made available for public art. UW-Madison art professor Faisal Abdu’Allah said public art can be “problematic,” especially for the artist.
Lucas Graves, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication and chair of the Shadid Award judging committee said of the Reuters entry: “This series involves a topic that is highly personal to the families of those who donated their bodies and important to everyone. Reporters and editors invested in telling this story as thoroughly as possible and dealt with some unexpected landmines in a thoughtful way.”
Faisal Abdu’Allah, a UW-Madison associate professor of art and Creative Arts Community faculty director, spoke Tuesday night about the representation of transformation, identity and racial issues in his artwork.
If you look to your left as you walk into the School of Human Ecology on the UW Madison campus, you will see something wondrous in the Design Gallery window. The exhibit is called “Whirling Return of the Ancestors: Egúngún Arts of the Yorùbá in Africa and Beyond.” The garment in the window is worn in what’s called a Masquerade.
A new task force has been created to reintroduce the idea of a creative economy to the larger community. Through a partnership with the UW-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration, village officials are hosting town hall meetings and focus groups to create a new entity that will carry on the village’s efforts.
Though the University of Wisconsin is known as a sports and research haven, the institution’s classrooms are teeming with art forms and artists of all kinds.
Madison has a pair of world-class art museums, along with a smattering of smaller galleries that are able to land shows from international talents. But it’s easy to overlook the city’s up-and-coming talents: graduate candidates in UW-Madison’s well-regarded master of fine arts program. In the U.S. News & World Report rankings, Madison’s program is tied at No. 15 with prestigious institutions California College of the Arts, Pratt Institute, Stanford University and Temple University.
Miller, who holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and an MD from the University of Pittsburgh, now works at UW Hospital as a second-year resident in emergency medicine.
Graduate students at UW-Madison have joined the movement – and they want your cast-off baubles.
SuccessWorks aims to help more liberal arts students find a job by graduation or soon after amid perceptions about the declining value of a four-year college degree — especially in liberal arts.
Meisler got her first camera in second grade, but it wasn’t until she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the mid-1970s that she became serious about the form while pursuing an MFA in illustration. During school breaks, she returned to her childhood home, where she staged a series of self-portraits that examined her past, present, and future.
Children’s books are famously bad at embracing diversity. In 2016, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that out of 3,400 kids’ books, fewer than one-quarter of them featured a main character who was black, Asian, Latino or Native American. So it’s vital that parents share the books that are available with their kids.
UW-Madison School of Music students are singing high praises for the new Hamel Music Center under construction on University Avenue.
As commercial theatre AMC replaced independent cinema outlet Sundance, WUD Film’s Marquee theatre becomes one of the only places in town to enjoy a diversity of cinema.
Better language education could help Wisconsin’s global business competitiveness in the future. That’s the idea that brought education and business leaders to the University Wisconsin-Madison on Friday.
Part of the UW-Madison School of Education, Tandem Press is one of only four professional art presses in the U.S. affiliated with a university. Graduate students can work there alongside master printers and visiting guest artists.
In just one weekend, the UW-Cinematheque series can take film fans through 80 years of cinema across three continents.
In the piece that violinist (and UW-Madison assistant professorSoh-Hyun Park Altino and cellist Leo Altino will perform in Capitol Theater Friday night with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra — Brahms’ Double Concerto in A minor — each instrument starts off with a cadenza, where the soloists play individually.
Raised as part of a prominent, groundbreaking family on Chicago’s South Side (her father, a successful real estate broker, was dubbed “The Kitcheonette King”), Hansberry spent a brief period at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to New York in 1950 where, before turning to the theater, she worked as a journalist and political activist. Along the way she would cross paths with everyone from Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and James Baldwin to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Rasmussen will help make this Spring’s “Bucky on Parade” free public outdoor art event a success. “It’s a tourism draw for people,” said Rasmussen.
The parade will consist of 100 giant Buckys hitting the streets of Madison and Dane County this spring all decorated by Wisconsin artists.
Amy Gilman has lived in Madison only a few months — but will likely become one of the more visible faces in the city’s art world.
Cambridge artist Kathryn Schnabel, owner of Windy Garden Studio at Galleria 214 in downtown Cambridge, has been selected to embellish a life-size fiberglass statue of the UW-Madison mascot as part of a Dane County-wide public art project, “Bucky on Parade.”
Noted: Maddox is a graduate of University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received his M.A. and M.F.A. He currently focuses on book art projects and installation work.
While Grimm’s work has been displayed and recognized internationally, she continues to teach ceramics at UW-Madison and is represented locally by Tory Folliard Gallery in the Third Ward.
“I gave the (sculptural) piece to a student to fire, because I didn’t even really care” about it, said the German-born Gerit Grimm, who was teaching in California at the time and now heads the ceramics program at UW-Madison.
A new documentary from Errol Morris, “Wormwood,” that started streaming Dec. 14 on Netflix, has earned wide acclaim, including a rave from the New York Times that called Morris “our great cinematic sleuth.”
Noted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he was a triple major in secondary education, history and Spanish. For several years, he taught social studies and science in a dual language immersion program at a middle school in Madison.
Noted: Grimm, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a meticulous and accomplished ceramicist. Her work reflects an accumulation of influences and interests that date back to her childhood in the former German Democratic Republic, her years as a production potter, and her early fascination with the California Funk ceramic movement. She is a voracious consumer of art history and a determined boundary-pusher at the potter’s wheel.
Charlie Berens returned to his home state in December and was at the Crystal Grand Ballroom in Wisconsin Dells on December 1. He went to UW-Madison and is from Elm Grove.
Sandor, a University of Wisconsin–Madison emeritus professor of engineering mechanics, and a novice playwright at 82, is tackling Galileo, a towering figure in the history of science.
The 16th edition of Curb Magazine is available now. The magazine is written and produced each year by students in the UW-Madison School of Journalism. The theme of this year’s magazine is “Kinetic.”
Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman—well-known for his 1995 book “Emotional Intelligence”—spent almost two years combing through more than 6,000 academic studies on meditation with a team of researchers to sort through the hype and discover the real benefits. He wrote about his findings in a new book, “Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body,” which he co-authored with Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist who directs a brain lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When we look for LiveBIG stories, we look for people who create innovation, impact and inspiration in the fields of science, the arts or philanthropy. Most projects check at least two of those boxes, some even check four, but University of Wisconsin alum Rachel Rose’s work behind-the-scenes on the new Star Wars films checks all of them.
Cole came from the west coast to the Midwest in pursuit of a degree and found activism as well as a life-changing reconnection to his passion: music.
Noted: Ithaca College, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the other schools that have credit or noncredit courses or touch on the show in other music or history classes.
For a uniquely ambitious father-son bonding project, Steven and Ben Nadler pooled their talents. The duo with Madison roots wrote and illustrated, respectively, a history of 17th-century philosophy. “Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy”—published in graphic novel form—melds the extensive scholarship of Steven, the elder Nadler, and the younger Nadler’s whimsical visual style.
When does a picture from a pulp magazine deserve a spot in a museum alongside exquisite fine art? Maybe when it takes the viewer into another world with its rich composition, beautiful technique and evocative detail. Such are many works in “Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection,” an exhibition on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through Feb. 4.
Do you have a book you can’t put down and would be enjoyed by thousands of others? The UW-Madison Go Big Read program wants to hear from you.
David Bordwell effectively argues that the change in the era of bold, different, sometimes difficult films from the ’40s made a permanent mark of cinematic storytelling that resonates to this day.
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, associate professor of history, University of Wisconsin at Madison: The book I am most eagerly awaiting is Kieran Setiya’s Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press).
The Wisconsin Singers is celebrating 50 years with two special performances in Overture Hall.
Cherene Sherrard is a professor in the English department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her debut collection of poetry, “Vixen,” was published in September by Autumn House Press.
A short-lived set lacks focality and quickly runs through Top 40 hits with little to no effort.
“Every state in our union has a World War I centennial commission and this symposium is the Wisconsin World War I Centennial Commission’s primary event to commemorate our state’s contributions to World War I,” said Dr. John Hall, Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and symposium organizer.
“A dictionary is never done,” said George Goebel, the third and, it turns out, final editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, also known as DARE.
