Why Wisconsin?
UW–Madison’s vibrant, interdisciplinary campus arts culture attracts students and professors from around the world. 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 to participate in the Wisconsin Idea, drawing on a rich legacy of research, innovation and collaboration to build a brighter future for all. They come for more than a dozen academic arts majors — and, regardless of major, they come for the plays, exhibitions, performances, readings, concerts, slams, films, residencies, open mics, studios, workshops, student clubs, more than 30 on-campus galleries, and the Chazen Museum of Art, the largest collecting museum within the Big Ten conference. With our Why Wisconsin? series, we ask new and seasoned UW–Madison students, staff and faculty to tell us what drew them to this campus in the first place, and why it’s so special to them.
Sophomore, majoring in violin performance
Ph.D. student, Department of Art History
Academic Engagement Project Assistant at the Chazen Museum of Art
Graduate student, Master of Fine Arts in woodworking
Sophomore, Majoring in art with certificates in entrepreneurship and textiles and fashion design
Karen A. Falk Distinguished Chair of Education and Dean of the School of Education
Bradford Chin
Assistant Professor, Dance Department
Professor of Literary Studies, English Department; Director, Center for Visual Culture and Performance Studies
Edward Klorman
Professor of Music Theory, Mead Witter School of Music
UW Marching Band, Mead Witter School of Music
Student, Third Year MFA in Ceramics
Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama
Assistant Professor, UW Art Department
Professor, Dance Department