Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, the UW Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing’s 2025 Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow, isn’t ready to leave just yet.
Division of the Arts News
A Recital 75 years in the Making
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.
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.
Six Takeaways (and two job landings!) from a newly mastered Arts Admin grad
Madelyn Stewart (MA ’25) shares how her Bolz Center for Arts Administration master’s degree helped her gain valuable skills and insights, and what she’s giving back to Madison’s arts community in return.
Taking Dance Education Back to School
Now in its third summer, UW Dance Exchange is bringing dance instruction into public schools. Dance Department Teaching Faculty Chell Parkins hopes to keep it there for good.
Curating Cass: Iconic Drag Queen’s Life is On Display For the First Time
‘Living, Not Just Surviving,’ an exhibition featuring Cass Downing — a.k.a. Cass Marie Domino — is now open at Memorial Union.
Student Spotlight: From Microscope Slides to Sliding Scales
Six beats with keyboardist Isaiah Dobbins, the double neurobiology and jazz studies major who is improvising life as he goes.
The Exquisite Poetry of Place
Erika Meitner, one of this year’s Creative Arts Award recipients, talks about going analog, changing minds by breaking hearts, and the power of telling our own stories.
Eight band members, two professional dancers, one epic performance
Aruṇ Lūthrā and a curated mix of multigenerational musicians convene to play live music for LaTasha Barnes’ “Swing into Spring” event on April 12.
Acclaimed swing dance artist and scholarly force LaTasha Barnes storms into Wisconsin
Watching LaTasha Barnes perform is difficult to put into words, and that’s OK. The tenured Arizona State University professor and multi-Bessie-award-winner’s work is meant to be experienced in community, her joy breathlessly embodied by everyone who witnesses it.