Former classmates re-create their teenage musicals in “Encore!”
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Laura Schara went from a fashionista to a TV outdoorswoman.
The iconic “Forward” statue inspires donations for female artists.
In the acclaimed Real Life, Brandon Taylor MS’17 explores his complex experience at UW–Madison.
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…
An ambitious new project connects muralists and UW researchers.
The Tony–winning Broadway star forged his artistic identity at UW–Madison.
Campus Art Exchange has a brilliant plan for beautifying UW–Madison.
Meet the Harry Whitehorse statue near Camp Randall — and sit on it, too.
Man — Creator of Order and Disorder returns to its former glory.
Here’s how we uncovered the story of André De Shields’s fabled stint on campus.
A new café helps make the facility more accessible.
The Wisconsin Union Theater makes sure the 100th-anniversary season is something special.
Even as a UW–Madison student, the author of “A Raisin in the Sun” spoke up for what she believed in.
In 2002, Gillian Laub ’97 made what would be the first of many trips to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to photograph the lives of teenagers in the South. What she discovered was an idyllic yet racially divided town struggling to confront longstanding issues of race and inequality.
For the next decade,…
Every few weeks, another one arrives: a visiting artist to create a new work at Tandem Press, UW–Madison’s fine-art print shop. Tandem is affiliated with the art department in the School of Education, and since 1987, it has brought nearly 100 artists to campus — to experiment, to create…
Jason Tracy
If you’ve been to a wedding, baby shower, funeral, or birthday party in the last 13 years, you’ve probably crossed paths with Melvina Young ’90, MS’92, PhDx’07. She’s a quiet party presence — she usually arrives hidden in an envelope — but Young’s voice…
Mary Hinkson ’46, MS’47 was born to dance, but as a black woman at the UW, she found Madison far from welcoming. Rather than give up, she became one of the nation’s leading performers.
An uncertain future for a divisive campus sculpture.
Remembering the pioneering UW printmaker and art professor.
WAA recognizes the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients.
Andy Manis
Just like the superheroes he creates, artist Jeff Butler x’18 provided powerful inspiration when he led a workshop on drawing cartoon characters in July at One Alumni Place.
Butler, whose past jobs included illustrating the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, leads courses in…
Sarah Morton
If you were looking for Lester Graves Lennon ’73 back in the late ’60s, chances are you found him at Der Rathskeller.
“I basically haunted the Rath,” says the English major from New York who came to UW–Madison because that’s where smart characters…
