University of Wisconsin–Madison
Three UW–Madison Communication Arts students exemplify the unseen labor powering the ‘best college radio station in the country.’ By Ted Hyngstrom, Division of the Arts Flip the dial to 91.7 FM, and you’ll likely hear one of the 230 volunteer radio hosts that power WSUM — the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s student-led radio station, named best college station …
Design students weave together the state’s waterways, two cultural tours, and the Wisconsin Idea to create the textile gifts that keep on giving. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts, with Lauren Goulette This is a story about water. Deep underground, thousands of years of glacial melt joined with thriving watersheds and steady rain to …
The Division of the Arts at UW–Madison, with the help of a cross-departmental panel of judges, has awarded more than $120,000 to a select a group of outstanding faculty, staff, and students — both graduate and undergraduate — as recipients of the 2026 Creative Arts Awards! Their work and research is spread across fourteen different areas of …
Dismantle tropes, illuminate exclusion, ‘See Memory’: Astria Suparak, Anila Agha and Viviane Silvera join a legacy of visiting artists to challenge and inspire UW–Madison students. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts Have you ever struggled to make sense of cutting-edge research on traumatic memory? What if an artist could help you visualize it through paint dripping on …
Not all aspiring screenwriters can go to Hollywood. Luckily for UW–Madison, Communication Arts alum Jason Rothenberg (’89) is bringing the Hollywood TV Writer’s Room to them. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts COLD OPEN, FADE IN: Hollywood, 2013. We’re inside the writer’s room — day one, season one, episode one — of a new post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi …
Why Wisconsin? UW–Madison’s vibrant, interdisciplinary campus arts culture attracts students and professors from around the world. But don’t just take our word for it. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts They come for the lakes, and those starburst chairs coloring the Terrace at Memorial Union in John Deere green, Allis Chalmers orange, and sunshine yellow. They come …
From post-Soviet Siberia to Baroque castles to the Hamel Music Center in Madison, Taya König-Tarasevich is putting her futuristic touch on historical performance. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts Imagine you are inside a German castle, surrounded by the renowned, world-class musicians of Verità Baroque. They don’t stand apart on a stage; instead, they form a circle …