When Mark Bugher, director of University Research Park, sat down recently to woo a still unnamed biotech company, the former state Department of Revenue head didn’t talk taxes. Bugher said members of the Charlottesville, Va., firm, which specializes in manipulating biological cells, were more interested in hearing about local cultural offerings like the soon-to-open Overture Center.
“Basically, we’ve been living in 17th century Venice all week,” artistic director and University of Wisconsin baritone Paul Rowe said just before the faculty and participants of the Madison Early Music Festival played their final notes in Saturday’s All-Festival Concert.
And despite the stark white walls and geometri
When Jim Ferris was a doctoral student, he directed a theatrical production in which each cast member had a disability. All but one of the performers used a wheelchair, so that put a woman who could walk in the minority. “Where do I fit?” she asked. It is a fundamental question for people who live with a disability, says Ferris, a poet who also teaches at the University of Wisconsin and has succeeded in making disability studies an interdisciplinary program there.
Among the five fellows inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters during ceremonies Sunday, July 11, at Monona Terrace were: Michael Fiore, who has pioneered smoking cessation at UW Hospital & Clinics; UW Professor Richard Davidson, who has pioneered Eastern spiritual practices in physical and mental health; and UW Professor Richard Davis, nationally acclaimed jazz bassist. Other inductees were Ellen Kort, Wisconsin’s poet laureate, and Tom Uttech, a renowned landscape painter who taught art for 30 years at UW-Milwaukee. (Caption only)
Socrates said an unexamined life is not worth living. What the philosopher failed to point out, however, is that the results of that examination typically fascinate only those immediately involved. For the rest of us, the examiner’s Sturm und Drang revelations can read like a protracted navel gaze.
Several local performing arts groups and presenters (including the Wisconsin Union Theater) will meet Monday night to find ways they hope will help them from drowning in the tidal wave of publicity generated by the new Overture Center.
The annual Madison Early Music Festival, which will begin Saturday, has reached a turning point. UW-Madison baritone Paul Rowe, co-director of the festival, says “This is the first year we feel we’re not making wholesale changes.”
Hey, it’s summer. And, just as you might catch your European classics professor wearing flip-flops to class, the UW-Cinematheque film series is loosening up a little.
Book review. Joanne Cantor, a nationally recognized authority on the media and children and professor emerita of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About 900 middle- and high-school students are not only taking band, orchestra, jazz ensemble and choir at the UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic, they’re taking special classes on dance, John Philip Sousa, famous jazz musicians and humor in music
The UW Summer Music Clinic, a two-week summer program for junior high and high school students, is celebrating its 75th year of teaching everything from “Jazz Ensemble” to “Latin Ballroom” and “Humor in Music” this month.
Through July 11, a newly purchased drawing is on show at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave.
The university publishing industry has long struggled to survive financially, but the announced closings of two small academic presses this year reflect increased pressures just as publishers had begun to benefit from an improved economy.
Nationally, university presses may be in trouble, but the University of Wisconsin Press needn’t worry too much. The editors at the Madison-based publisher consistently make smart choices – the kinds of choices that are necessary in an increasingly competitive publishing industry.
The University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., Madison, is benefiting, by proxy, from Frederick Layton’s big heart and eye for quality
U-W student Audrey Seiler put the national spotlight on Madison when she faked her own kidnapping. Now, some local artists are putting the spotlight on Audrey Seiler and her story… literally
Quoted: Marureen Janson, a part-time instructor at UW-Madison.
Quoted: Cynthia Laitman, who works at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
An assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Tyson lived four years in Oxford. Tyson, 44, is a white academic who hasn�t given up the two defining Southern obsessions: knowing your kinfolk and knowing how to tell a story.
