Category: Arts & Humanities

Noted: School of the Arts at Rhinelander, offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Division of Continuing Studies, features nearly 40 three-day workshops in visual arts, culinary arts, mind/body/spirit, performing arts, and writing. This is the event’s 52nd year of fostering creativity and camaraderie in the Northwoods.

Noted: Leavell’s tree plantation occupies 2,900 acres in Georgia. He has written books on woodland management, testified on logging legislation before Congress and likes to quote legendary Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold.

LYNDA BARRY: RESCUE ME!!! The pioneering female cartoonist Lynda Barry — whose early work included the syndicated alternative strip “Ernie Pook’s Comeek,” “One! Hundred! Demons!” and the illustrated novel “The Good Times Are Killing Me,” which became an Off Broadway play — in a phone interview put her relationship with Drawn & Quarterly like this:

Late last month, what began as a book review in an obscure publication blew up into a major controversy that tarnished sociology’s most-buzzed-about young star. At issue: whether the sociologist, Alice Goffman, had participated in a felony while researching her ethnographic study of young black men caught up in the criminal-justice system.

Last year, Alice Goffman published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an adaptation of her dissertation at Princeton. For six years, while a student at Penn and at Princeton, Goffman immersed herself in a Philadelphia neighborhood that she writes is “a lower-income Black neighborhood not far from [Penn’s] campus.” The book is an ethnography of the lives of the young men (and a few women) she hung out with in the neighborhood. She changed names and calls it “6th Street,” to avoid identifying her subjects.

Quoted: “We find artists through word of mouth and recommendations. There are no auditions,” said Jutt, a professor of flute at UW-Madison. “Friends will say, ‘This person is amazing. You’ve got to get this person.’ And if you can, you do it. So over the last 24 years, our circle of acquaintances and music friends has gotten really big.”

Sociologist Alice Goffman’s book “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City,” drew fulsome praise upon its publication in 2014 and gave its youthful author a crossover reputation — a TED talk, a speaking tour, possible TV and movie deals, trade paperback reprint.

Noted: Abrams, who founded Capital City Theatre along with managing director Stef Dickens, education director Gail Becker, and communications director Chris Giese, is already a well-known figure in city theater circles. A Madison native, he earned his bachelor’s of music degree at UW-Madison and a master’s in musical theater from University of London-Goldsmiths.

Since her book “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” was published last year, Alice Goffman has achieved a measure of fame that is rarely visited on a young sociologist.

For Malone, a Portage native and a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this year could be one of those moments. She has a big summer ahead of her musically, with shows scheduled in Denver and Chicago, all booked around festivals she will perform at.

“Oh, my gawwwd,” Allee Willis howls.

Meanwhile, according to the website of the expansive Dictionary of American Regional English — DARE — language researchers are “challenging the popular notion that our language has been ’homogenized’ by the media and our mobile population.” They proffer that “there are many thousands of differences that characterize the dialect regions of the U.S.”

The UW-Madison based Dictionary of American Regional English is venturing into new, online friendly projects despite financial setbacks throughout the last several years. DARE is a multi-volume dictionary that defines words and phrases specific to various regions throughout the United States. It was created at UW-Madison nearly 50 years ago. Current Chief Editor of DARE Joan Houston Hall first started with the publication in 1975, when she and other employees were responsible for entering terms into the dictionary.

Rory Erler Wakemup was selected for the 2015 Chazen prize by this year’s curator of the competition, art critic and writer Lori Waxman, who teaches art history at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The four girls are full of energy as they rehearse a dance they’ve choreographed to Beyoncé’s “Flawless.” But when they get the giggles, Tiffany Merritt-Brown, a senior in the University of Wisconsin’s dance department, urges them to focus: “Don’t let the laughter distract you from the dancing,” she says. “Come on…I believe in you.”

Language-lovers across the U.S. have the mulligrubs this month, and with good reason. The Dictionary of American Regional English DARE, which has cataloged vernacular terms and idioms from around the country since it was founded in the early 1960s, does not currently have the funding to continue operations after June 30, 2015.

A 50-year odyssey to chart the dialects of America – from the toad-stranglers very heavy rains of Indianapolis to rantum scooting going on an outing with no definite destination in Nantucket – is due to come to an end this summer when funding for the Dictionary of American Regional English runs out.

Pianist Christopher Taylor simply rocked the Madison Symphony Orchestra concert Friday evening; had he been willing, the audience would have kept him at the piano until the stagehands shut off the lights.

News 3 This Morning talks with Julie Arensdorf, reference and outreach librarian about the eatable book festival that’s coming to the UW-Madison Memorial Library on Monday.

In the summer of 2012, Dr. Johannes Wallmann moved to Madison to accept the position of Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Music. In accepting the position, he became the inaugural holder of the John and Carolyn Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies at the university.

A look at UW–Madison emeritus professor Wildman and her role with the Madison Music Collective MMC, a volunteer group of musicians and others in the Madison music scene, devoted to promoting jazz and other forms of improvised music, including increasing performance opportunities at reputable venues.

Q&A with Robert Glenn Howard, director of the Digital Studies Certificate Program and professor of communication arts and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies.

Since the 19th century, one of the grandest of scholarly projects in the humanities has been the making of historical dictionaries. These are comprehensive multivolume dictionaries that aim to cover a language in all its historical depth and contemporary breadth. The best known of these is the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, published in installments from 1884 to 1933, and when completed amounting to 13 massive volumes.

The UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics announced in a news release that Tribune reporters David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa Eldeib, and photographer Anthony Souffle, are being honored for a five-part multimedia series that revealed hundreds of wards of the state were assaulted and raped by their peers every year.

At the height of her career, just a few years after winning a Tony Award, Karen Olivo walked away from Broadway and headed west – not to Hollywood, but to Madison, Wis.

The Dictionary of American Regional English, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, may soon end its work documenting regional language differences due to a lack of funding.

The end may be near for one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s most celebrated humanities projects, the half-century-old Dictionary of American Regional English. In a few months, the budget pool will drain to a puddle. Layoff notices have been sent, eulogies composed.

A group of students from Necedah Area High School will test their scholarly mettle Wednesday when they venture to Madison to participate in the 10th annual Great World Texts in Wisconsin Program at the University of Wisconsin.

The approximately two dozen students will join 500 or so of their peers in discussing their recent intellectual grappling with the work of 18th-century political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau — known as the “father of democratic theory” — and specifically his autobiographical book “Confessions.”

The Necedah students will join in presenting a variety of written, spoken, visual and even culinary interpretations of what they have read — from a hand-carved book shelf to the actual foods the author describes in the book — during the day-long conference.

I had an opportunity to chat with Liz Truong – Studio Manager and Creative Director at Change Boutique here in Madison about the Intern Program offered by the local fair trade shop. Currently there are 4 student interns with concentrations in Textile Design, Fashion Design and Retail/Merchandising, the internship lasts one semester with an option to extend to a second if needed. The dedicated interns log 12-15 hours per week in the studio on top of any course load and other jobs they may hold.