Tag: arts

Building Knowledge

Art History classwork turns into a unique professional opportunity, giving four UW–Madison students new perspective on what makes a neighborhood. By Julia Walkowicz, Division of the Arts When Claire Wendland traveled to Walla Walla, Washington, for an architecture conference this spring, she didn’t know what to expect.  For starters, when she and three of her …

Flow State

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 …

2026 Creative Arts Awards

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 …