The Division of the Arts is the administrative home to the Integrated Arts subject listing (495). This listing supports courses offered through division programs. It can also be used for interdisciplinary arts courses that cannot be located in a subject listing devoted to a single topic.
Click here to view all Integrated Arts courses in the official UW–Madison Course Guide.
For scheduled courses for upcoming semesters, see below.
Questions?
For more information please consult the full Integrated Arts subject listing guidelines or contact Associate Director Kate Hewson at kate.hewson@wisc.edu or 608-263-9290.
Spring 2021
The Studio Presents
Course: Integrated Arts 112
Course Number: 38862
Instructor: Faisal Abdu'Allah, Studio Faculty Director
Day & Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: Hybrid (Online and in person)
Credits: 1 | Limit: 16
Prereqs: Resident of The Studio Creative Arts Community
Description: Residents of The Studio: Creative Arts Community engage in an interdisciplinary, hands-on experience of creative arts and professional practice, including developing and showing their original work in the local community.
Creativity, Collaboration and the Creation of Self
Course: Integrated Arts (IA) 310/610 (3-credit option; grads enroll in 610)* and Integrated Arts 330 (1-credit option)
*All L&S students must register for Comm Arts (CA) 609, Lec 002 rather than Integrated Arts 310/610. This course counts towards the Communication Arts major and the Digital Cinema Production certificate as long as students register for Comm Arts 609, Lec 002.
Course Number: 35946, IA 610: 35948, and IA 330: 47027 | CA (609, Lec 002): 47331
Instructor: Litza Bixler, Spring 2021 Interdisciplinary Artist-In-Residence
Day & Time: Thursdays 5:30-7:00 pm & Fridays 2:30-5:00 pm
Location: Hybrid (Online with the possibility for in-person at 249 Lathrop Hall in the second half of the semester – approx. after March 12)
Credits: 1-3 | Limit: 16 for the 3-credit
Prereqs: None
Description: The 3-credit course focuses on the development of creativity and collaboration as base skills that can be applied to a wide variety of fields. The aim is to help students grow as creators and thinkers, and to practice communicating their ideas in an intensely collaborative environment.
The first part of the course will focus on examining creativity in context. The second part is devoted to exploring creative collaboration and culminates in a live and/or virtual public exhibit of films, sound, and images. The final collaborative piece examines the movement of people across borders and boundaries. Students will explore diaspora, geography, and immigration as essential and positive sources of identity and ask what it means to be “from” a particular place or country.
Students should be prepared to work with their bodies, with physical media, and with a variety of art forms, sound, and technologies to produce their creative products.
The 1-credit option explores how creativity intertwines with sociocultural development, technological, and scientific innovation. Students will engage with a broad range of literature from psychology (narrative, cognitive, and behavioral), anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, education, neuroscience, and the arts.
For more information about the 1 and 3-credit courses and Litza's residency, visit
go.wisc.edu/bixler.
Entrepreneurship In Arts & Cultural Organizations
Course: Integrated Arts/MHR 636
Course Numbers: IA 636: 41902 | MHR 636: 41737
Instructor: John Surdyk
Day & Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Location: Online
Credits: 3 | Limit: 37
Prereqs: Junior standing. Declared in a Business program or Certificate in Business.
Description: Become familiar with basic entrepreneurship principles and value proposition design techniques in social entrepreneurship settings with attention to the perspective of arts and cultural organizations. Content includes business model development, customer-driven innovation, lean startup practices, organizational capacity for entrepreneurial action, team performance, the structure of alliances and partnerships and funding mechanisms in the sector.
Past Course Offerings
Fall 2020
The Studio Seminar: Mapping Your Creative Practice
Course: Integrated Arts 110
Course Number: 67605
Instructor: Faisal Abdu'Allah, Studio Faculty Director
Day & Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: 215 Gordon Dining and Event Center (Symphony)
Credits: 1 | Limit: 50
Prereqs: Resident of The Studio Creative Arts Community
Description: Residents of The Studio: Creative Arts Community engage in an interdisciplinary hands-on approach to the creative arts and gain familiarity with the wide variety of arts disciplines on campus.
Hip-Hop Culture, Women & the World
Course: Integrated Arts 310/610 (grads enroll in 610)
Course Number: 72310/72332
Instructor: Michele Byrd-McPhee, Fall 2020 Interdisciplinary Artist-In-Residence
Day & Time: Wednesdays 2:15-4:05 pm
Location: Online
Credits: 3 | Limit: 20
Prereqs: None
Description: Students will examine the roots of Hip-Hop culture and its current place as a global phenomenon with a specific focus on the history, contributions, and experiences of women in Hip-Hop. This course is a combination of movement and lecture. The course will explore race, class, gender, sexuality, and politics through the lens of Hip-Hop culture. Students will engage with artists using visual art, spoken word, music, dance, and technology. This course will debunk perceptions and question students' understanding of Hip-Hop culture. It will provide an introduction to the theory, practice, aesthetics, and historical foundations of Hip-Hop dance.
Byrd-McPhee is the founder and director of the Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival. Guest artists include dancer, dance educator, and scholar LaTasha Barnes; spoken word and recording artist Ursula Rucker; and visual artist and graphic designer Stacey "Flygirrl" Wilson.
Introduction to Arts Entrepreneurship
Course: Integrated Arts/MHR 632
Course Number: 025727
Instructor: Sarah Marty
Day & Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45 am
Location: Online
Credits: 3 | Limit: 40
Prereqs: Sophomore standing
Description: An overview and foundation for students interested in developing, launching, or advancing innovative projects in arts, culture, design, and humanities. Students cultivate their own career vision and creative project goals while learning about the nature and structures of arts entrepreneurship.
Spring 2020
The Studio Presents
Course: Integrated Arts 112
Instructor: Faisal Abdu'Allah, Studio Faculty Director
Day & Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: B32 Sellery Hall (Blackbox)
Credits: 1 | Limit: 30
Prereqs: Member of The Studio Creative Arts Community
Description: The residents of The Studio: Creative Arts Community engage in an interdisciplinary, hands-on experience of creative arts and professional practice, including developing and showing their original work in the local community.
ARTIVISM: Intercultural Solidarity & Decolonizing Performance
Course: Integrated Arts 310 & 610/Asian American Studies 240/Music 497
Day/Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 3:30-5:10 pm
Location: 510 Lathrop Hall
Credits: 3 | Prereq: None
Description: This course will investigate the theory, practice, multidisciplinary and intercultural concepts connected with the recent jazz opera, Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite. The work is highly interdisciplinary, rooted in theories of history and social change, and above all, is modular in structure and scope. The intention is to grow from the intersection of local knowledge and local creativity where it is staged and re-interpreted. This course will guide and inspire students to participate in the construction of a new performance module of Mirror Butterfly.
The course objective is that students leave with an expanded vision of how art can bring marginalized communities together to articulate a concrete and actionable plan for change in their communities and in the world at-large. Students will experience how dialogic art can be life-altering, in its communal generation and re-creation.
Entrepreneurship in Arts and Cultural Organizations
Course: Integrated Arts/MHR 636
Instructor: John Surdyk
Day & Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Location: Grainger 1140
Credits: 3 | Limit: 40
Prereqs: Junior standing
Description: Become familiar with basic entrepreneurship principles and value proposition design techniques in social entrepreneurship settings with attention to the perspective of arts and cultural organizations. Content includes business model development, customer-driven innovation, lean startup practices, organizational capacity for entrepreneurial action, team performance, the structure of alliances and partnerships and funding mechanisms in the sector.
Fall 2019
From Topic to Topography: Exploring Data Through Live Performance
Course: Integrated Arts 310/610
Instructor: Carrie Hanson, Fall 2019 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence
Day & Time: Fridays 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: Lathrop 249
Credits: 3 | Limit: 20
Prereqs: None
Description: Students will create original performance works, installations, and activations that locate the body within the larger ecosystem; articulate perspectives about environmental sustainability, vitality, and equity; and convey persuasive messages. This course is open to creative researchers from diverse fields — dance nerds and STEM artists, to those who can imagine using movement to tell a story or illustrate data, to students who are body-curious and body-courageous, as well as to those with extensive physical training.
The Studio Seminar: Mapping Your Creative Practice
Course: Integrated Arts 110
Instructor: Faisal Abdu'Allah
Day & Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7 pm
Location: B32 Sellery Hall (Blackbox)
Credits: 1 | Limit: 64
Prereqs: Resident of The Studio
Description: Residents of The Studio: Creative Arts Community engage in an interdisciplinary hands-on approach to the creative arts and gain familiarity with the wide variety of arts disciplines on campus.
Introduction to Arts Entrepreneurship
Course: Integrated Arts 320
Instructor: Sarah Marty
Day & Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45 am
Location: Grainger 3070
Credits: 3 | Limit: 40
Prereqs: Sophomore standing
Description: An overview and foundation for students interested in developing, launching, or advancing innovative projects in arts, culture, design, and humanities. Students cultivate their own career vision and creative project goals while learning about the nature and structures of arts entrepreneurship.
Spring 2019
The Studio Presents
Course: Integrated Arts 112
Instructor: Carolyn Kallenborn, Interim Studio Faculty Director and Professor of Design
Day & Time: Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 pm
Location: B32 Sellery Hall (Blackbox)
Credits: 1 | Limit: 30
Prereqs: Member of The Studio Creative Arts Community
Description: Residents of The Studio: Creative Arts Community engage in an interdisciplinary, hands-on experience of creative arts and professional practice, including developing and showing their original work in the local community.
The Gesture of Collage as Practice
Course: Integrated Arts 310/610 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence Studio
Topic Title: The Gesture of Collage as Practice
Instructor: Rashaad Newsome, Spring 2019 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence
Day & Time: Fridays 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Humanities 6321
Credits: 3 | Limit: 20
Prereqs: None
Description: The Gesture of Collage as Practice is a hands-on studio class, in which Newsome uses his critically acclaimed performance work FIVE as a way to engage students in a wide range of collaging strategies including: creative coding, sound, video, and performance, while exploring current discourses on race, sexuality, gender, performance, and art history. Through critical thinking, visiting artist workshops, and reading, the students will consider issues pertinent to cultural circulation within global capitalism: the politics of authenticity and the economy of appropriation. They will also collaborate on a series of new interdisciplinary works to be featured at a public event.
Entrepreneurship in Arts and Cultural Organizations
Course: Integrated Arts 322
Instructor: John Surdyk
Day & Time: Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Location: Grainger 1140
Credits: 3 | Limit: 40
Prereqs: None
Description: Designed for students ready to develop and bring innovative products and services to market in existing arts and cultural organizations. Lectures, cases, readings, discussion, guests, and experiential projects deepen students' understanding of how to harness entrepreneurial practices to develop compelling new products and services.
Summer 2018
Imaging Self: SoE PreCollege Summer Arts Intensive
Course: Integrated Arts 330 Lec 002: Special Topics in Integrated Arts
Topic Title: Imaging Self: School of Education PreCollege Summer Arts Intensive
Instructors: Adriana Barrios, Anna Lehner, Mary Patterson, Catrina Sparkman
Session Dates: July 9 - 27, 2018
Day & Time: M-F, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: various
Credits: 3 | Limit: 60
Prereqs: Contact Maria Vishnevsky for permission to register
Description: This course provides an opportunity for students to explore how they see themselves and how others see them through different art forms, focused on the theme "Imaging Self." Students will work with practicing artists, dancers, actors, and stage technicians to explore and express concepts of self. Through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, students will learn to understand the choices they make in representing self, and to explore how different art mediums illuminate choices we make in how we represent ourselves to others.
Students must be registered for Imaging Self: SoE Precollege Summer Arts Intensive: summer.wisc.edu/imaging-self/
Creative Placemaking Summer Institute
Dates: July 23 - August 3, 2018
Day & Time: M-S, 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: Grainger Hall, room TBA
Instructors: Sherry Wagner-Henry, Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration at UW-Madison & Anne Katz, Executive Director of Arts Wisconsin
Limit: 40
Download the course flyer here (PDF).
Sample syllabus (subject to change)
For Credit Option
Course: Integrated Arts 330/630 or MHR 365/765
Topic Title: Creative Placemaking
Credits: 2
Prereqs: junior/senior
Non Credit Option
Cost: $1,200 ($1,000 nonprofits)
CEUs: 9.6
Online registration
Description: While Creative Placemaking is a relatively new term, its practice is decades old, particularly in Wisconsin. We will explore this rich history, definitions, and current impacts of creative placemaking (also known as arts-based community development) in Wisconsin, the United States, and globally. The class will participate in active learning, with live examination of creative placemaking models, best practices and failures, evaluation and measures of success with guest artists and community practitioners engaged in this work across the state of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.
This course will be based in Grainger Hall on the UW-Madison campus with site visits around the state of Wisconsin.
More info: Kate Hewson at kate.hewson@wisc.edu or 608-263-9290.
Fall 2018
Performing Information: Exploring Data Through Live Performance
Course: Integrated Arts 312/612 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence Lecture
Topic Title: Performing Information: Exploring Data Through Live Performance
Meets with: MHR 365 Lec 002 and MHR 765 Lec 005
Instructor: Stuart Flack, Fall 2018 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence
Day & Time: Thursdays 3-6 pm
Location: Grainger 4580
Credits: 3 | Limit: 18
Prereqs: None
Description: The performing arts can play a critical role in changing society. Yet many of the issues that artist must address-poverty, growth, climate change, nuclear weapons, crime, disease, race, politics - require engaging an audience with very complex information. This is challenging and often new work for performing artists. In this course, artist/consultant/citizen scientist Stuart Flack will bring together ideas from social science, design, computer science, theatre, dance, and writing to examine the theoretical background, history, and most importantly the practical issues around incorporating complex information into live performance. We will explore the use of high tech tools like virtual reality or Tableau software as well as simple physical objects like blocks, Legos, stones, and rice grains and clowning techniques to make information come alive. As we explore this rich topic, we will toggle between theoretical, historical and practical modes, continually applying what we learn in the actual making of information driven performance in a workshop setting through collaborative trial and error. Our workshops will result in the creation of "bits/bytes" for public evening(s) of Data Vaudeville. We'll also write some short essays and engage in regular and lively discussion as part of our weekly seminar/workshops. The course will be delivered in equal parts lecture/discussion/laboratory.
The Studio Seminar: Mapping Your Creative Practice
Course: Integrated Arts 110
Instructor: Faisal Abdu'Allah
Day & Time: Tuesdays 5:30-7 pm
Location: B32 Sellery Hall (Blackbox)
Credits: 1 | Limit: 64
Prereqs: Resident of The Studio
Description: Residents of The Studio: Creative Arts Community engage in an interdisciplinary hands-on approach to the creative arts and gain familiarity with the wide variety of arts disciplines on campus.
Introduction to Arts Entrepreneurship
Course: Integrated Arts 320
Instructor: Sarah Marty
Day & Time: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30-10:45 am
Location: Grainger 2280
Credits: 3 | Limit: 40
Prereqs: Sophomore standing
Description: An overview and foundation for students interested in developing, launching, or advancing innovative projects in arts, culture, design, and humanities. Students cultivate their own career vision and creative project goals while learning about the nature and structures of arts entrepreneurship.