2024 Creative Arts Awards Program

Opening
Division of the Arts Director Chris Walker

Ben Ferris Trio
Ben Ferris, bass
Mike Koszewski, drums & cymbals
Chris Rottmayer, piano

Welcome
Amy Gilman, Director, Chazen Museum of Art 

The Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement-Funded Programs
GG Elizabeth Christensen, Artivism Student Action Program
Sammy Dyrud, Artivism Student Action Program
Anaya Frazier, Artivism Student Action Program
James Carl Osorio, Artivism Student Action Program
Tina Rea, Artivism Student Action Program
Zen Spivey, The Studio Service
Akhilesh Peddi and Arista Ranka, The Studio Research

Acknowledgements
Division of the Arts Director Chris Walker

Arts for Healthy Minds
Erin Celello
Claudia Guzman
Christine Holm
Ahna Skop
Lillian Smith & Katherine Kramer

Vocal solo from Twelfth Night
Sydney Germany
Heavyn Dyer-Jones

Spero Fellowship 
Grant St. Claire

Arts Business Competition
Ben Carlee, Madison Gamer Symphony Orchestra
Giselle Oliva, Cornhusk Collective
Tony Sansalone, Tufting with Tony

Sherry Wagner Henry Scholarship Award
Giselle Oliva
Moises Garcia
GG Christensen

Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Award
Kaleb Autman
Dylan Hart
Madelyn Mascotti
Kiyem Obuseh
Abby Sunde
Issac Yang

Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts
Diya Abbas
Kaleb Autman

Spoken Word, Made in Our Own Image – Meditations on the Blood We Conjure
Kaleb Autman

Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
Diego Alegria
Gabriela Yepes-Rossel

David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowshop for a Woman in the Arts
Anamika Singh

Monologue from Wine in the Wilderness
Jnae Thompson

Graduate Student Creative Arts Award
Fatemeh Fani
Matthew Ludak
Veronica Pham
Magdalena Sas
Carolyn Spears
Devon Stackonis

Spoken Word, Finally a Reflection in the Form of a Poem
Azura Tyabji

Retirees
Diana Hess, Dean and Karen A. Falk Distinguished Chair of Education
Marlene Skog, Dance
Wei Dong, Design
Paula Panczenko, Director, Tandem Press

Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award
Hannah O’Hare Bennett

Dance Duet, Tenderness and Rot
Whitney Bleick
Erin Steers

In Memoriam
Cydney M. Edwards, Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives
David Bordwell, Communication Arts
Richard Davis, School of Music
Leslie L. Thimmig, School of Music
Joan Wildman, School of Music

Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts
Mike King

The Aurora Brass Quintet, “Four Pieces: 2. Danzon” by Pacquito D’Rivera 
Turner Grey, tuba
Joshua Brooks, trumpet
Katherine Schmit, trumpet
John Shawger, horn
Alli Dotson, trombone

Emily Mean Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts
Anna Campbell
Peter Dominguez

Picking
Cleo Decker
Emma Miquelon

Creative Arts Award
Laura Schwendinger

Aria from Artemisia 
Julia Rottmayer, vocalist
Thomas Kasdorf

Ben Ferris Trio
Ben Ferris, bass
Mike Koszewski, drums & cymbals
Chris Rottmayer, piano

 

With Gratitutde

Thank you to the 2024 Creative Arts Awards review and selection committee:
Chris Walker (Dance); Faisal Abdu’Allah (Art); Anthony Di Sanza (Music); Florence Hsia (History); Grant Nelsestuen (Letters & Science); Jen Plants (English); Samara Frame (Division of the Arts)

The Creative Arts Awards are made possible by the Emily Mead Baldwin Professorship Fund, Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award for Arts Faculty and Staff Fund, Suzanne and Roberto Freund, Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Award Fund, Emily Nissley, David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Fund, Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Fund, and the Division of the Arts.

Special thanks for funding goes to The Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, Center for Healthy Minds, Ronald W. Hevey and the Ronald W. Hevey Scholarship Fund, donors to the Leslie Watkins Visual and Performing Arts Scholarship Fund, Joan Spero and C. Michael Spero, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

Additional Credits:

Videography: Aaron Granat
Video Music: Tim Russell, composer
Livestream: Alexander André, Aaron Granat, DJ Koehn, Ella Schienle & Liz Root
Graphic Design and Illustration: Alexander André & Lily Cain
Stage Manager: Alissa Berman
Assistant Stage Manager: Anna Wentzel
Music Operations Manager: Ben Bell Bern  
Recording Engineer: Lance Ketterer
Lighting Designer & Video Engineer: Paul Schaefer

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