Marcela Guerrero MA’05, PhD’15 is breaking barriers as the Whitney’s first curator of Latino art.
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Patricia Marroquin Norby MA’01, MFA’02 curates Native American works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The UW’s Open Mic Night can be a stepping stone to the big time.
Richard MFA’73 and Judith Lang turn found objects into artistic statements about pollution.
A mural in the UW Discovery Building embeds QR codes in its scientific imagery.
Science borders on science fiction in a collection of prize-winning images.
Father-son duo Ben ’67 and Leo ’99 Sidran give new life to timeless tunes.
The Beatles finally make it to Madison, thanks to a new collection in Mills Music Library.
Bruce Ravid ’74 propelled a stint in UW radio to a career in the music industry.
Michael Velliquette MA’99, MFA’00 turns monochrome materials into extravagant works of art.
Paul Woelbing ’79 has assembled the world’s largest theater organ.
Blu³eprint by Faisal Abdu’Allah communes with the UW’s Abe Lincoln statue.
As Yung Gravy, Matthew Hauri ’17 conquered the music world while still a UW marketing major.
The Terrace music series became a sensation in the ’80s and is poised for a comeback.
A UW production takes a new perspective on the opera’s sexual politics.
A chance encounter led Chris Walker to study dance and, now, head UW’s Division of the Arts.
Sanford Biggers prepares an artistic response to a problematic work in the Chazen collection.
What’s it like to be Afghan and Kurdish in the U.S.? Read Hajjar Baban ’20.
Sarah Brailey MM’07, DMA’21 wins a Grammy for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
As a curator and practitioner, John Szarkowski ’48 helped shape our view of photography — and the world.
Young reporters use new strategies to bring local news back from the brink.
Known as a colorful chronicler of counterculture figures, Larry Sloman MS’72 is finding his direction home as a singer-songwriter.
For jazz pianist Joan Wildman, music was life. That may sound like a figure of speech, but Wildman proved it a statement of fact. After a cancer diagnosis last year, the longtime UW–Madison professor bravely rejected a treatment that might have bought her more time. The problem was, the drugs…
Sami Schalk demonstrates the principle of “pleasure activism.”
A unique group of poets, musicians, and activists came together in the inaugural cohort of First Wave, the UW’s pioneering scholarship program.




























