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From page to poster: Business students create art inspired by ‘Go Big Read’ selection

October 20, 2015

Students from the Wisconsin School of Business use silk-screening techniques to create posters as part of a Just Mercy Printmaking Project. The students…

Passing the Mic Hip Hop Arts Festival celebrates OMAI’s 10th anniversary

October 20, 2015

The annual fall festival, celebrating the transformational potential of hip-hop arts on and off the UW–Madison campus, welcomes internationally known spoken word and hip hop artists.

Recent sightings: The master’s ear

September 27, 2015

American soprano Brenda Rae, 1 2004 alumna of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music, is a highly sought after artist who regularly performs in many of the world’s leading opera houses, concert halls, and recital venues. She visited campus for a reception, performance, and master class with UW music students.

$28 million to support art education: Chazens pledge pieces from personal collection

September 25, 2015

Alumni Jerome and Simona Chazen have pledged to give $35 million to advance the Chazen Museum and art education on campus.

Afro-Cuban musician González begins residency

September 17, 2015

This fall, the Arts Institute welcomes Grammy Award winner Juan de Marcos González, founder of the Afro-Cuban All Stars and an accomplished musician in several genres, as its Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence.

Afro-Cuban All Star Juan de Marcos González begins fall arts residency

September 17, 2015

This fall, the Arts Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison welcomes Grammy Award winner Juan de Marcos González, founder of the Afro-Cuban All Stars and an accomplished musician in several genres, as its Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. In addition to teaching and performing on campus with world-renowned collaborators, he will conduct weekly master classes with School of Music ensembles and engage in community outreach in Madison and Milwaukee.

UW 2020: New VCRGE program to support early stage research

July 28, 2015

In an effort to create a dynamic new funding mechanism for bold research ideas, ideas with potential to drive significant discoveries, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education (VCRGE), with support from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), is teeing up a new program to seed potentially groundbreaking research.

World premiere expresses UW–Madison professor’s feelings about species extinction

May 5, 2015

In 2012, when UW–Madison music Professor Laura Schwendinger started working on her second string quartet — one that is her response to species extinctions — the Javan Rhino was considered endangered. Now it is the most threatened of the five rhino species, with just 35 remaining in Java, Indonesia. That, says Schwendinger, highlights “just how pressing the issues I wish to present with my quartet are.”

School of the Arts at Rhinelander offers workshops in a unique setting

May 1, 2015

For more than 50 years, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of the Arts at Rhinelander has fostered creativity in Wisconsin’s Northwoods. The 2015 event, held July 17-19, features workshops in visual arts, culinary arts, mind/body/spirit, performing arts and writing. Part of its appeal is the distinctive setting, which inspires instructors to design one-of-a-kind courses.

Community arts procession STRUT! scheduled for Saturday, May 2

April 22, 2015

Members of the public are invited to watch and participate with over 30 of Madison's creative and cultural groups in STRUT!, a community arts procession showcasing stilt walking, dance, music, design, puppetry and more.

Science meets art: 2015 Cool Science Images unveiled

April 9, 2015

Whether a close-up of a leafcutter ant, or a micrograph of the neurons derived from marmoset stem cells, or an MRI of the hidden pathways in the human brain, submissions to UW–Madison’s 2015 Cool Science Image Contest continue to put science and nature on eye-catching display.

Calligraphy tour-de-force celebrates traditions, methods and materials of sacred texts

March 17, 2015

Scribes representing each of the Abrahamic religions shared their skills and sacred-text traditions with the community Thursday as part of the Chazen Museum of Art’s programming for “Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible,” which closed Sunday.