Tag: School of Human Ecology

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 …

What can visiting artists do?

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 …

Connected by Common Threads

Four Textiles & Fashion Design students are back in Wisconsin after a new internship in Vietnam reconnected them to the Hmong diaspora. By Maggie Ginsberg, Division of the Arts This summer, four UW–Madison School of Human Ecology students stepped off the plane into the extreme humidity of Hanoi, Vietnam, more than 24 hours into a journey …