The over-four-year initiative to create a College of the Arts was dropped in the spring, replaced by a plan that would revamp the Art Institute instead, University Committee Chair Michael Bernard-Donals said at a Faculty Senate meeting Monday.
Two law professors took up the issue at a recent forum at UW Law School sponsored by the Federalist Society, a student group of conservatives and libertarians.
Mary Murrell, a cultural anthropologist at UW-Madison, will be a contestant Monday on the famed quiz show “Jeopardy!,” according to the show?s publicist.
While researching the history of psychology for her 2002 book on UW-Madison professor and psychologist Harry Harlowe, titled ?Love at Goon Park,? Deborah Blum found numerous references to a leading late 19th century intellectual named William James. Blum, herself a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and UW-Madison professor, was intrigued by stories suggesting James ? brother of the novelist Henry James ? had lost his mind.
In January, Nelson, 65, retired from her dual role in art at UW-Madison, where she both taught in the art department and did outreach, partly as director of the Wisconsin Regional Art Program for nonprofessional artists. The mother of two adult daughters, Nelson also became chairwoman of the Madison Arts Commission this year. Her husband, UW-Madison Afro-American Studies department director Craig Werner, urged her to do a retrospective exhibit.
With a new crop of students also comes a new slate of performances and exhibitions on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
A working draft of a performing arts study in Madison was released Monday by Webb Management Services Management Services, Inc., the New York-based company that conducted the study in conjunction with WolfBrown consulting firm.
The 100th season of the University of Wisconsin?Madison?s Pro Arte Quartet?an unprecedented milestone for any chamber ensemble in history?was celebrated throughout the 2011-12 season. Each of the four concerts included a world premiere by a major composer, guest lectures, media coverage far and wide and a double-CD of the premiered works produced by a Grammy-winning producer.
Noted: work by Michael Peterson, associate professor of theater; Amy Quan Barry, professor of creative writing; PhD students Jeff Casey and Katrina Schaag.
Lea Jacobs is a familiar face to film lovers on the UW campus. A communication arts professor, she?s also afounding director of the UW Cinematheque, the campus organization that screens noteworthy films for free nearly every week, including silent films and 16mm and 35mm prints. Now she?s adding another title to her resume: associate dean for the arts and humanities in the UW Graduate School, the role new School of Music director Susan C. Cook recently vacated.
Ruth Ozeki shared her challenges and inspiration behind the 2013 Go Big Read book, ?A Tale for the Time Being? with The Daily Cardinal Tuesday.
Moise and the film?s producers, Jason Schumacher, Will Blomker and Mason Hill, are all University of Wisconsin-Madison grads who made short films during their time in the city. Now living in New York, they decided to make their first feature on familiar turf.
There were numerous winners with local ties at last night?s Emmy Awards, chief among them Steve Levitan, creator of “Modern Family.”Levitan is a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum.But there was also another not remarked upon UW connection when James Cromwell won as best supporting actor in a miniseries or movie for “American Horror Story: Asylum.”
Sometimes a concert is less about ?performing? and more about simply sharing one?s gifts in an atmosphere of gratitude and joy. That is exactly what a very full Mills Hall audience received Sunday evening from baritone Nathaniel Stampley and accompanist Jamie Schmidt.
University of Wisconsin communication arts professor Lea Jacobs added an additional position to her resume after she was recently appointed to be one of the associate deans for the graduate school, where she will oversee arts and humanities programs. The Badger Herald sat down with her to get a glimpse of her plans as she enters her new position. This interview was edited for clarity and brevity.
When the Madison Public Librarys new central branch opens this Saturday, visitors will find plenty of books and cozy spots to dig into a story. What they might not expect is the incredible array of art?and opportunities to get creative?offered in the sleek downtown space.
Spatula&Barcode is actually UW-Madison profs Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson, whose legendary Madison food parties and collaborations in the kitchen have led to some deliciously strange and enlightening international encounters.
The way that Nathaniel Stampley and Jamie Schmidt started making music together almost sounds like the subplot of a Broadway musical.
As the fall semester gets off to a busy start, graduate students working toward their MA and MFA degrees have begun to exhibit their latest artworks. This year?s review show is called ?///Some.? In it, 18 graduate students in the art department showcase one piece that best represents their progress in two years of study.
When artist Romare Bearden set out to create a series based on Homer?s epic poem ?The Odyssey,? he recast the myth of the Greek warrior as ?happening possibly in Africa.”
Just when you thought Madison might finally be getting over the 1960s comes another volume on the subject. But before you dismiss Matthew Levin?s Cold War University as something you?ve read before, take another look.
The chairman of the Communications Department of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies in 1990 was Barry Orton. It was Orton who gave the OK for his colleague Christine DeSmet?s idea for the Writers? Institute, which next year will hold its 25th edition. Orton told me this week that Leonard was available ? at, get this, no charge ? in July 1990 because he was just starting a book tour for ?Get Shorty,” … Six weeks later, the tour over, Leonard wrote Orton a letter … All these years later, Orton, still a UW-Madison professor, has the letter framed in his office.
The University of Wisconsin Press fall catalog holds a little something for most tastes, from horses to houses, biography to geography.
The UW School of Music will have a new leader as it begins the fall 2013 semester. Though she?s just stepping up to the helm, her face is familiar to students who study subjects ranging from viola to Victorian poetry.
Jesse Lee Kercheval, a professor in UW-Madison?s MFA program, said that Madison, as a literary town, needs something like the Madison Writers? Studio.
The 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington is bringing forth innumerable commemorations and reminiscences in all forms. But memories of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?s ?I Have a Dream? speech that Aug. 28 afternoon always threaten to overwhelm, if not obliterate, other aspects of what still remains the most famous mass gathering in American history.
This weekend, he?ll bring ?Dirty Wars? to Sundance Cinemas in Madison, where he attended school at both Madison Area Technical College and the UW-Madison in the 1990s.
Actress Lynne Stewart flew all the way to Madison from Los Angeles last week to star in “Bingo Night,” a short comedy being filmed here by an L.A.-based team with UW-Madison roots.
Cartoonist Lynda Barry, who guest taught a course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this spring and now has a professorship, will host a “Drawing Jam” this Saturday at the Image Lab located in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
In Cold War University, Matthew Levin details how the expansion of our eminent Cold War university created a student body of such diversity and vitality that the institution?s very integrity was shaken by its own growth.
This year?s Jazz at Five lineup features some familiar faces, like violinist Randy Sabien, who last appeared at the event in 2011, and UW-Madison jazz professor Johannes Wallmann?s quintet.
This September, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art spotlights 35 of Wisconsin?s most innovative artists, from established names like Charles Munch to graduate students at UW-Madison.
If a paperback on your summer reading list was published anonymously, you?d probably notice. But if this article lacked a byline, or tonight?s episode of Wilfred didn?t credit a writer, you might not bat an eyelash.
UW-Madison graduate students are known for many things, from ambitious dissertations to headline-making activism, but rocking out isn?t one of the first descriptors that come to mind. Local band TL;DR have been working to change this since 2011. Their new debut album, TL;DR Is Everything You Are, brings them one step closer to this goal.
“I am pleased to be chosen to receive the 2014 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship Award. It is exciting to join past and current recipients alike. It is also comforting to be recognized by NEA officials and those who nominated me,” said Richard Davis.
The 56 bells of UW-Madison?s Memorial Carillon ring out in musical concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, part of the summer-long series of performances by university carillonneur Lyle Anderson. The concert can be heard from the area grounds, or climb the tower to get a closer look and listen.
MADISON ? An 83-year-old music professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has played bass with Bruce Springsteen and classical conductor Igor Stravinsky has been awarded the nation?s highest honor in jazz.
An 83-year-old music professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has played bass with Bruce Springsteen and classical conductor Igor Stravinsky has been awarded the nations highest honor in jazz.
Richard Davis, a bassist and a professor of music at the University of Wisconsin ? Madison, has been named one of the 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, one of the highest honors for an American jazz musician.
A new national corps of ?master teachers? trained in the humanities and social sciences and increased support for research in ?endangered? liberal arts subjects are among the recommendations of a major report to be delivered on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The good news is that Aaron Bohrod?s mural in the Madison Public Library is saved, restored as a centerpiece of the remodeled central facility, slated to reopen Sept. 21.
It?s early on a Thursday afternoon, and I?m preparing to teach two interdisciplinary humanities courses. I?ll spend the next three hours working closely with about 50 undergraduates, and I need to get my ducks in a row. When I started my teaching career, more than two decades ago, this last-minute prep might have entailed reviewing handwritten lecture notes or scrawling something profound on the chalkboard. Today, however, I?m hunkered down at a state-of-the-art podium that will allow me to engage my students in ways I couldn?t have imagined in the early 1990s.
Leslie Smith IIIs new painting exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through Sept. 1 is called “I Dream Too Much,” but its clear that the UW-Madison art instructor isnt asleep in the traditional sense. Like many of his paintings, these recently created works use abstract imagery to explore anguish, anxiety and other byproducts of trauma.
(CBS News) With the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day invasion due this coming Thursday, there?s an untold story that?s coming to light about some of the soldiers who took part — and we warn you, it?s not an easy story to hear. Here?s national security correspondent David Martin:
For those who knew her as a hardworking grad student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Carrie Coon?s red carpet debut at the Tony Awards on Sunday may feel like watching a local girl make good.
This Sunday, the girl who wore shin guards to her first theater audition swaps her cleats and uniform for gold heels and a vintage gown on the Radio City red carpet.
In 2004, Willie Ney brought a team of high school students from Madison, Wisconsin, to the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival in Los Angeles. Ney, who was working in an outreach capacity for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was enthralled by the creativity, talent, and passion that he witnessed, calling it a “transformative experience.” But he was also struck by the realization that he was the only university-level representative in attendance. “There was no integration of higher education with these students, who were brilliant writers and thinkers,” he said. “There are thousands of poets out there, but universities are not recruiting them. They?re recruiting athletes.”
Like most of her work, cartoonist Lynda Barrys class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is unorthodox. “No artistic talent required,” the course description states. The course is described as a “writing and picture-making class with focus on the basic physical structure of the brain.”
Over the past 20 years, Steven Nadler, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has established himself as this country?s leading authority on the philosophical thought of 17th-century Europe. He has written a major biography of Spinoza, edited scholarly works about Malebranche, been a Pulitzer finalist for ?Rembrandt?s Jews,? and taken up, in ?The Best of all Possible Worlds,? the arguments of Leibniz and his contemporaries about that most troubling of all theological questions: the problem of evil. Why does God allow the innocent to suffer?
A huge research project at UW-Madison that has taken over 50 years of work so far got a big financial boost last week so the work can continue.
Reading is typically a solitary activity, but it doesnt have to be. Just ask the organizers of the UWs Go Big Read program. They know books are social media in its purest form, tools for bringing people together and helping them connect, converse and learn from each other.
Chancellor David Ward selected ?A Tale for the Time Being? by Ruth Ozeki for the fifth Go Big Read book at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
One of the University of Wisconsin?s oldest humanities projects faces an uncertain future due to a recent lack in funding.
Earlier this month, the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the winners of its 2013 Cool Science Image contest. From an MRI of a monkey?s brain to the larva of a tropical caterpillar, a micrograph of the nerves in a zebrafish?s tail to another of the hairs on a leaf, this year?s crop is impressive?and one that certainly supports what Collage of Arts and Sciences believes at its very core. That is, that the boundary between art and science is often imperceptible.
UW theater professor Patrick Sims can?t resist playing around with his students. While helping them organize a field trip, he sees an opportunity for a laugh. It?s a gamble, though. The subject at hand is a veritable powder keg: how “driving while black” can get a person into some serious trouble.
Whether Marc Fink is a man of few words or not, anyone would be hard pressed to find the right way to say goodbye to a university after forty years of distinguished service. Sunday afternoon the retiring oboe professor said farewell to the University of Wisconsin?s School of Music in the most eloquent way of all?with his instrument, and with the considerable aid of other musicians.
The University of Wisconsin will host the 2013 Biennial Neon and Light Exhibition on Friday and Saturday where artists from across the nation take part in the event.
Every seven years, Nick Hitchon becomes a movie star.Every seven years, director Michael Apted and his camera crew show up to film another installment of the long running ?Up? documentary series. The series, which began with ?7 Up,? follows a group of British children through their lives, checking in with a new film every seven years.
A film co-directed and edited by a Kenosha native was selected for the prestigious Wisconsin Film Festival in Madison.
