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, 2025Student 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, 2025The 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, 2025Eight 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, 2025Acclaimed 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.
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Media Mentions
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October 16, 2023UW launches first postdoctoral fellowship for arts
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Archive
Wisconsin Film Festival Overview – April 14-21, 2016 (PDF)
Announcing the 2016 Recipients of the Awards in the Creative Arts (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)