Yaa Gyasi, author of the 2021-22 “Go Big Read” novel “Transcendent Kingdom,” spoke to faculty and students from the African Studies Program at Mark H. Ingraham Hall on Thursday, and met with First-Year Interest Group and Honors Program students at the Pyle Center.
“When you play in front of a live audience you get energy back from the audience. The performance carries so much more meaning when you can tell that you’re affecting people.”
Gyasi, whose book “Transcendent Kingdom” uses fiction to explore the very real issues of race, immigration, science, faith and family, will speak Nov. 3 at Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall.
The Wisconsin Union Theater has started the fund, named after the Broadway star and UW alumnus, to support artistic projects and performances by BIPOC and other people who are historically underrepresented on stages and in audiences.
Join dance Professor Chris Walker (recently appointed director of the Division of the Arts) on a video tour of this campus asset — home of the acclaimed UW–Madison Dance Department.
Jennifer Angus, a professor in the School of Human Ecology, has created “Magicicada” — an exhibit of her exquisite, ornamental patterns and imaginative vignettes using cicadas.
Chris Walker, a professor in the Department of Dance and founding artistic director of First Wave, a program known for pushing the boundaries of poetry, dance, theater and art, will assume his new position July 1 and also continue teaching.
In honor of National Poetry Month, University Communications spoke with members of the First Wave Urban Arts program about the importance of poetry and why they think the art form is so powerful.
Presentations by finalists will be prerecorded and include responses to a set of questions asked by Soyeon Shim, search committee chair and dean of the School of Human Ecology.
Hajjar Baban already has achieved considerable success. She’s now poised for more.
To celebrate the exploratory and artistic value of those images and videos, the 11th annual Cool Science Image Contest is soliciting the best visuals from members of the UW–Madison community.
Saxophonist Arun Luthra is an American musician of Indian heritage. Judy Frater, living in India for 30 years, co-founded KalaRaksha Trust and Museum.
The director will help to shape and advance a collective, new vision for the division and its programs in alignment with the university’s plans and direction.
Students took breaks from all-electronic assignments to work with take-home kits that let them explore the physics of light while creating art.
The WRAP 2020 Annual Art Exhibition and State Day Conference will feature Karen AnnHoffman’s much-anticipated keynote on Iroquois raised beadwork, an art form specific to the Indigenous nations and cultures of the Eastern Great Lakes Region utilizing forms and designs that reach back more than 10,000 years.
Sherry Wagner-Henry, director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at the Wisconsin School of Business, died May 30. For more than 25 years, she served as a leader in nonprofit, arts, cultural, and humanities-based centers in higher education.
Members of the group Humorology say the coronavirus pandemic only heightened their fundraising resolve. Donations will benefit children who might otherwise go hungry.
Through “Stay at Home with Wisconsin’s Own,” the festival will premiere one short film per day on YouTube — an opportunity to enjoy an extraordinary collection that had been slated to premiere at this year’s festival, which was canceled.
Guzzo Pinc’s show joined the long list of events canceled due to COVID-19. Despite the initial shock and a feeling of despair, Pinc became determined to find a way to bring his exhibition into public view.
“Real Life” follows graduate student Wallace, a queer black biochemist from Alabama, and his circle of friends over the course of a typical-turned-tragic weekend.