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Division of the Arts News

Recent News

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.
June 12, 2025
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.
May 13, 2025
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.
May 7, 2025
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.
April 2, 2025
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.
March 17, 2025
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Media Mentions

Marlon F. Hall: The Mosaic Dinner Movement creates community through food and conversation
March 12, 2024
Come Eat With Me
October 23, 2023
Artificial Imagination: Exploring the Convergence of Arts and AI
October 16, 2023
What to do in Madison this week: Adrian Legg, Wisconsin Science Festival and more Isthmus Picks
October 16, 2023
UW launches first postdoctoral fellowship for arts
October 6, 2023
Unleash your curiosity at the 13th annual Wisconsin Science Festival
September 26, 2023
Ad-hoc study group will recommend ways to improve the Black experience at UW–Madison
September 19, 2023
UW-MADISON DIVISION OF THE ARTS CELEBRATES 25TH YEAR OF INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM, OPENS “IARP AT 25” CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR 2024–2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
September 12, 2023
UW–MADISON DIVISION OF THE ARTS HOSTS INDIAN DALIT THEATRE PRACTITIONER SRI VAMSI MATTA AS 2023–24 INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
September 1, 2023
It’s Only 10 Minutes: August 30
August 31, 2023
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Archive

Madison Early Music Festival Shakespeare 400: An Elizabethan Celebration Concerts and Events – July 9-16, 2016 (PDF)

Baldacchino to lead the Division of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting August 2016 (PDF)

More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide, Includes $18,000 awarded to UW-Madison Division of the Arts (PDF)

“Through the Hollywood Looking Glass: PTSD and Beyond” Films Shown May 22 & 29 and June 5 at UW-Madison (PDF)

Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers, the Spring 2016 Division of the Arts Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence, Presents Final Event: Seeds of Time (PDF)

Big Screens, Little Folks Films for Kids Shown April 15-17 During the Wisconsin Film Festival (April 14-21) (PDF)

Wisconsin Film Festival Overview – April 14-21, 2016 (PDF)

Announcing the 2016 Recipients of the Awards in the Creative Arts (PDF)

Former UW-Madison Division of the Arts’s Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence, Juan Felipe Herrera, is appointed as the U.S. Library of Congress Poet Laureate (PDF)

Carl Djerassi Fostered Arts & Literature at UW-Madison (PDF)

Recent sightings: Dancers upon stilts (link)

Announcing the Recipients of 2015 Awards in the Creative Arts (PDF)

Madison Early Music Festival 2015 (PDF)

New Children’s Cinema Program at 2015 Wisconsin Film Festival (PDF)