University of Wisconsin–Madison
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 …
Why is this Landscape Architecture class drawing students from all over campus? By Maggie Ginsberg and Aaron Granat, Division of the Arts Inside the sunny, corner classroom in Microbial Sciences that hosts Landscape Architecture 373: Mindfulness in Restorative Environments, jumbo windows stretch all the way to the ceiling. As soon as Teaching Faculty Nathan Larson enters, the first …
How a job at the Chazen is reshaping one UW–Madison junior’s relationship with art in unexpected ways. Story and photos by Jakob Miller Most visitors move through the Chazen Museum of Art in under an hour. They drift from painting to painting, take a photo or two, and leave. But for UW–Madison junior Claire Hoppe, the galleries are …
Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, the UW Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing’s 2025 Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow, isn’t ready to leave just yet. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts In 2023, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe packed up her life in West Africa and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to begin her MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. …
Two years after beloved pianist Sarah Jamieson’s passing at age 103, seven doctoral students will take the bench of her prized Steinway and reprise her 1951 senior concert. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts When the opening notes of Bach’s Fantasia in C minor cascade through Music Hall on October 12, one wonders if the historic theater will somehow recognize …
This UW–Madison double major is making the most of his junior year by taking on every opportunity that comes his way. By Jakob Miller Since his first theatrical performance in third grade, Jameson Milhaupt knew he wanted to be an actor. But the UW–Madison junior double majoring in theater and political science never imagined all the …