New York or L.A. (or Wisconsin)? Stanislavski or Meisner (or Disney)? Picking an acting school can be a Hamlet-like melodrama all its own, as THR surveys the experts to rank the best places to get a graduate degree. UW is ranked #24th.
Listed: “On the surface it’s about math, but it’s really about how much math plays into our daily lives without our even knowing it,” Gates wrote in his review of How Not to Be Wrong.
Participants in the Odyssey Project share their original works of short poetry.
I was travelling last month and returned home to the news that Karl Schmidt had died, “peacefully at home,” according to the obituary, on April 21, at 93.
If you come out to the Union South Varsity Hall tonight for the University of Wisconsin Odyssey Project’s graduation ceremony, you will hear some amazing life stories. Be prepared to laugh, and probably cry.
Tamara Thompson Moore was at a crossroads in her life when she was pressured, she says, to apply for the Odyssey Project. Like many of this year’s grads, she knew people who had gone through the program and was familiar with its quality. A counselor at the Parental Stress Center long ago encouraged her to consider her own goals in life, as well as the needs of her children. At last she has done that.
Frances Myers was a perfect match for printmaking: hard-working, innovative, assertive, complex.But the artist and retired UW-Madison art professor, who died unexpectedly in December 2014 of a stroke at age 78, was also known for other attributes. Kindness. A sense of spirituality. An ability to find depth in the commonplace.
Over the next 18 months, five cities around the world will present parts of “Out of the Shadows,” a wide-ranging selection of cabaret, chamber music, choral music, theater and literature from Jewish artists, most of them emigres and many affected by the Holocaust. In Madison, it’s happening now.
The Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot will appear at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in November as part of the just-announced Wisconsin Union Theater 2016-17 season.
Noted: “Hoodwinked: An Installation by Jay Katelansky,” which runs through May 29 at the Chazen Museum of Art, is striking in its impact. Katelansky is a third-year MFA student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and this installation was the result of her winning the 2016 Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student.
Also: The topic of criminality gets simultaneously broadened and dissected in “Criminal,” an exhibition on the first floor of Overture Galleries. UW–Madison students, recent graduates and faculty probe the inherent conflicts in the concept and what influences and motivates understanding of it.
UW-Madison design studies professor Jennifer Angus’ large-scale artwork titled “In the Midnight Garden,” along with installations by eight other nationally known artists, has taken the U.S. capital by storm in the show “WONDER” at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery. “WONDER” was expected to draw 200,000 people during its six-month run — but that estimate has been upped to 500,000, Angus said. Huge lines of visitors snake through the museum on most days.
It’s become a routine feature of the Asian American poet’s life: waking up to your inbox full of messages asking, “Have you seen this?” And it’s never good. A few months ago, it was the news that a white poet had published a poem in The Best American Poetry while masquerading under the name “Yi-Fen Chou.” This week, it was a poem in The New Yorker by Calvin Trillin titled “Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?”, a bit of light verse ostensibly poking fun at foodies chasing the latest Chinese regional cuisine. But when I read the poem, I got a sick feeling—the feeling you get when you are the butt of a joke. Trillin’s poem comes out of a long tradition of white writers praising Chinese culture while ignoring Chinese people.
UW-Madison students of color are channeling their frustration over racism on campus into a multimedia visual and performing arts showcase at the Chazen Museum.
Amy Franceschini, a California-based social practice artist who founded a group called Futurefarmers in 1995 to explore alternate farming methods, is finishing up a semester residency in Madison as the Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence sponsored by the UW-Madison Arts Institute.
At Madison East High School, students in Amy Isensee’s classroom are considering what they have in common with 17th-century Chinese culture
Hwang comes to Madison on April 20 for a Center for the Humanities lecture in the Elvehjem Building, connected to the Chazen Museum of Art.
The recent “retirement” of one of my favorite poets of all time, Ron Wallace, from the UW–Madison English Department reawakened a personal source of civic pride: Madison as a serious poetry city. [Also mentioned: Rubén Medina, chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.]
While it wasn’t written about the Vietnam War, the song “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” by The Animals became an iconic song at the time, and now signifies the era.
The recent “retirement” of one of my favorite poets of all time, Ron Wallace, from the UW–Madison English Department reawakened a personal source of civic pride: Madison as a serious poetry city.
A nearly 400-year-old collection of William Shakespeare’s plays will be on display this fall in Madison.
The First Folio, a printed collection of William Shakespeare’s plays that dates back to 1623, is scheduled to arrive in November. Shipped under conditions of top security and high-tech climate control, the book will be on display for nearly six weeks at the Chazen Museum of Art, with UW-Madison Libraries and UW Arts Institute as co-presenters.
A century of Yiddish education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be celebrated with live and historic music, including the first event in an international Jewish performance series.
Badgers, which have long been as synonymous with Wisconsin as cheese, will soon be burrowing into a new home at Vilas Zoo.Zoo, Dane County and UW-Madison officials announced plans Wednesday for a larger exhibit to house the zoo’s two current badgers, with a tentative goal of opening in time for the fall football season. Fundraising efforts are underway for the Wisconsin Heritage Exhibit, with $350,000 of the required $650,000 already collected.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s band is known throughout the country and the world.
On Monday, UW Band Director Mike Leckrone stopped by Wake Up Wisconsin to talk about the upcoming show.
(Video) UW Band Director Mike Leckrone previews the band’s 42nd spring concert.
Instead of gathering dust in a storage unit, boxes of articles and photos by a late Wisconsin State Journal reporter that detail one of the biggest transition periods for agriculture in Wisconsin are becoming resources for students at UW-Madison.
Luckily, a computer program has swooped in to save Stokes and his sense of humor. With the help of computer scientists from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, The New Yorker for the first time is using crowdsourcing algorithms to uncover the top captions. The magazine quietly started using the algorithms a few months ago, testing them out on past caption contest winners and finalists. On Wednesday, The New Yorker revealed the tool publicly and is now inviting all of us to vote for our favorite captions.
While Madison has lately been gripped by basketball fever, one Badger has already won a competition that rivals any NCAA tournament. Former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Nicole Rocklin received an Oscar for producing Spotlight, named the best picture of 2015 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
For reporting on the use of slave labor in the Southeast Asian fishing industry, the Associated Press will receive the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics.
An image of human tissue and blood cells that looks like an Impressionist painting, a blood-red moon, and a batch of stinkbug eggs are among the 10 images that won the 2016 Cool Science Image contest.
It’s hotter than molten lava, constantly moving and requires artisans to work in a careful precision with their tools, their space and each other. It’s glass, and no other university has shaped its future as an artistic medium longer than the University of Wisconsin.
Add this to the ever-growing list of outdoor music events you must attend: carillon concerts. A University of Wisconsin–Madison tradition since the bell tower was erected in 1936, on Bascom Hill overlooking Lake Mendota at 1160 Observatory Dr., the concerts are held regularly on Sunday afternoons throughout the year (the current series runs through May 1, with performances starting at 3 p.m.). And the musician responsible for wrangling more than 50 bells into a melodious sound? Lyle Anderson, who was appointed University Carilloner in 1986.
Noted: Both University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Terry was a junior majoring in computer science; Cowdrey, a sophomore in business and marketing. Cowdrey’s father, for one, was taken aback, but came to understand why his son did it.
“Transformations,” opened Friday in Music Hall on the UW-Madison campus and runs again Tuesday.
The 27th annual institute, April 15-17, is hosted by UW-Madison Continuing Studies, which strives to represent the Wisconsin Idea, said Laurie Scheer, conference director and a faculty member in the Continuing Studies Writing Department.
Three reporting teams, a Milwaukee reporter and a joint effort of two non-profit news organizations are contenders for the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics.
Noted: After high school, she attended UW-Madison to study art on a Ruth DeYoung Kohler Foundation art scholarship. There, she completed a bachelor’s of science in art degree and her teaching certification.
Noted: Be transported across landscapes of Asian and Western identities with Li Chiao-Ping Dance and the UW-Madison Dance Department’s performances of “Fluid Measure,” at 8 p.m. Friday and at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave. A reception with the performers will be held following Friday’s performance in the Virginia Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall.
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.” With those words from conservationist and author Aldo Leopold, the start of the Foreword to “A Sand County Almanac,” naturalist Kathy Miner will kick off the annual Madison Reads Leopold event Saturday at the UW-Madison Arboretum.
Quoted: “I’m excited to be able to share their voice, their vision, their creative abilities with a wider audience,” Jose Vergara, a volunteer instructor at Oakhill, said. “I really wanted to get this writing and art out because a good chunk of it is really impressive. And I feel it should have a wider audience. Not simply because it’s made by inmates but because it deserves to be seen–it’s worthwhile art.”
Vergara is a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying Slavic languages and literature. He started teaching courses at Oakhill Correctional Institution in 2011 after receiving a grant from the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities.
Noted: Fuhrman, who grew up in the former Soviet Union (she was born in 1969), studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in southern California with her family.
Central Time talks about the Oakhill Prison Humanities Project, teaching poetry and literature to people in prison and its upcoming art exhibitition, Artists in Absentia.
Noted: Coincidentally, the switch from film to digital was one of the themes of the play “The Flick,” which was staged earlier this month by Forward Theater Company. Forward and the UW-Cinematheque are presenting a free screening of the documentary “The Dying of the Light,” which looks at the transition from film to digital, at 2 p.m. Saturday at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. The film’s director, Kevin Flynn, will chat with UW film professor and author David Bordwell after the screening. (Ironically, the documentary will be shown on digital, not film.)
Noted: UW Hillel, which is part of a worldwide Jewish campus organization, offers programming for Jewish students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with film festivals, workshops, a fitness center and opportunities for volunteer work.
Lydia Diamond wouldn’t mind seeing a brawl break out during a talkback of one of her plays.
Retired UW-Madison plant pathologist Vaughan James probably did not realize he was planting seeds for a small business when he put in gardens at his home in 2000. The 1,100 perennials provide a profusion of inspiration and photography subjects for his silk screening and sublimation printing business, R.V. James Designs.
Noted: Humanities courses taught by volunteers at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon form the core of the project. The classes are taught mostly by UW-Madison graduate students and faculty members. And like the teachers, inmates choose whether to participate.
Noted: Zanichkowsky will be among the some 200 artists, scientists, architects and educators who have taken the trip since 2009. Those alumni include artist Stephen Hilyard, professor of digital arts at UW-Madison, who did the Arctic residency in 2012.
Noted: Manhattan-based Crown Publishers, which also is publishing a mass-market edition for British readers, chose Milwaukee for the national book launch, which takes place Tuesday. Desmond will speak at Marquette University Law School and Boswell Book Co., followed Wednesday by an appearance at his grad-school alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lamar, his sons and some other adolescent boys from their Milwaukee neighborhood are sitting around, playing cards and smoking blunts, when there is a loud and confident knock on the door, which could be “a landlord’s knock, or a sheriff’s.” Mercifully it is only Colin, a young white man from their church, who has come to read them passages from the Bible, most of which Lamar knows by heart. The subject wanders off to God and the Devil, with Lamar adding, “And Earth is hell.” “Well,” Colin corrects him, “not quite hell.” An awkward silence falls.
A new theater production opened Thursday at University of Wisconsin, aiming to inspire conversations about race and diversity on campus.
“Smart People,” the latest work by Lydia Diamond, a Chicago-native playwright, centers around the life of four intellectuals in Harvard University and the racial issues they deal with on a daily basis, Grace Schneck, production stage manager, said.
All University of Wisconsin students know the familiar chimes of the Carillon Tower.
The tower is open to visitors from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Sunday, where carillonneur Lyle Anderson has been on duty for 30 years.
Noted: Bradley teaches a course on the war at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Werner, a professor and chairman of the university’s Afro-American Studies Department. A decade ago, they began talking about music at a Christmas party at the Vet Center in Madison and were quickly surrounded by a group of guys sharing stories of the music they listened to in Vietnam.
Noted: Fewer than 10 percent of children’s books released in 2015 had a black person as the main character, according to a yearly analysis by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. And while the number of children’s books about minorities has increased in the last 20 years, many classroom libraries have older books.
“Why do kids like making marks that make shapes that make stories? Adults are scared to do this. Why?”This is the central thesis of “Drawing Fast and Slow: The Compbook Art of Lynda Barry,” on display at the Madison Children’s Museum through the end of March.
Noted, several UW-Madison grads, including: Walter Mirisch: A UW-Madison grad, Mirisch, one of Hollywood’s most progressive and prolific producers in the 1960s, took home the Oscar for best picture for “In the Heat of the Night” (1967). He also was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1983 and the Irving Thalberg Award in 1978.
Faisal Abdu’Allah has not shied away from controversial topics since joining the UW-Madison faculty.
Column by Teri Dobbs, associate professor of music, on how making music during times of incredible oppression and stress provides individuals — especially children — a place of normalcy, safety and community, if only for a short time.
Noted: Currently in law school at UW-Madison, Hefti is clearly not the kind of person to let spare time go to waste. He has always liked to write and while serving overseas he completed an online bachelor’s degree in English and a master of fine arts degree in fiction.
A professor from the University of Wisconsin was among the nominees for the 58th Grammy Awards. Jim Leary is a professor of folklore and Scandinavian studies at UW-Madison and a Mount Horeb resident.
