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  • Public invited to see building plans at Chazen town hall meeting Oct. 17, 2007 The Chazen Museum of Art invites the community to a town hall meeting to view plans for the museum’s building expansion.
  • Tale from Planet Earth logo Festival to showcase environmental films in November Oct. 17, 2007 From travelogue-expedition films to the experimental avant-garde and the worlds of Walt Disney and Jacques Cousteau, cinema has been central to how we think about nature and the environment.
  • Festival showcases ‘print missionaries’ and art departrment Oct. 9, 2007 Joseph Velasquez and Greg Nanney been called "print missionaries" by some New York City publishers because the pair - who both received an M.F.A. in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison last May - travels the country bringing artwork to both schoolchildren and adults with a printing press rigged to the back of a pick-up truck.
  • Photo of Kelsey Van Ert Spoken word scholars aim to transform campus Sept. 30, 2007 They express themselves and how they feel about the world around them through a powerful mechanism: words. And now the students who have embraced urban art, including “spoken word,” are coming together on campus, playing a leadership role in a national movement and sharing their craft with others.
  • Saldivar named interim director of UW Arts Institute Sept. 26, 2007 Norma Saldivar, who heads the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Directing Program in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Theatre and Drama, has been appointed interim executive director of the UW-Madison Arts Institute.
  • Stop, look, listen — and make your own art — at 2007 Arts Night Out! Sept. 20, 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison's Arts Night Out! 2007 has something certain to inspire and enchant everyone.
  • Hip-hop filmmaker weighs in on manhood, sexual violence Sept. 11, 2007 Byron Hurt, a filmmaker who loves hip-hop and is the co-founder and former associate director of the United States Marine Corps gender violence prevention program, will address students and community members about sexual violence on Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Theater.
  • Exhibits reveal famous patrons of the arts also loved science Sept. 10, 2007 Medici enthusiasm for science as well as art during the three centuries the family reigned over Florence and Tuscany is now on display at UW-Madison.
  • Photographer links politics, personal experiences Sept. 5, 2007 For Michael Kienitz, photography is a portal between the political and the personal. He is interested in the power of an image to create a connection between photographer and subject and then with the viewer, and the possibilities those connections might have to promote change.
  • Environmental filmmakers Helfand, Siegel are fall guest artists Sept. 4, 2007 The Arts Institute is pleased to welcome artist in residence Judith Helfand and guest artist Sarita Siegel to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Fall 2007. The Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program brings world-class artists to campus to teach semester-long, interdepartmental courses and to publicly present their work for campus and community audiences.
  • Image from a digitally scanned book, now available online. New digital collection 'Sixty Books, Sixty Libraries' goes online July 19, 2007 Ever dream of having your photos, drawings or stories published online? For a few Wisconsinites, that dream was realized through a collaborative art project digitized by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, which goes live this week.
  • ‘World-class’ UW violinist Vartan Manoogian dies July 13, 2007 Vartan Manoogian, professor of violin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, died on Thursday, July 12, in Spain. He was 71.
  • Badn performing at the Terrace Recent sightings: Hot summer nights July 6, 2007
  • Annual camp making music on campus June 18, 2007 More than 350 middle school students arrived on campus Sunday, June 17, kicking off the University of Wisconsin-Madison's annual Summer Music Clinic. For the next two weeks, the campus will be filled with the sounds of student bands, orchestras and choirs.
  • Drama Institute offers a way to help students cope June 15, 2007 Local educators have an opportunity to learn to use theater to help their students deal with difficult issues. This summer's Drama Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes a class that was developed in response to incidents of school violence over the past year.
  • Campus about to bustle with notable summer activities June 5, 2007 College Library and Bascom Hill may seem quiet and serene, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison will soon be bustling with summer activities.
  • Spoken word institute again offered to educators June 4, 2007 This summer, Urban Word NYC and the Hip-Hop Association team with the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Office of Multicultural Initiatives (OMAI) to offer a weeklong program for teachers, educators, community leaders and education students to learn the best practices in hip-hop and spoken word pedagogy.
  • Three finalists for Wisconsin Wrights’ new play project announced May 16, 2007 Bruce Murphy, Greg Lawless and Kurt McGinnis Brown have been selected as the three finalists for the first Wisconsin Wrights New Play Development Project.
  • Aerial photo of farm Wisconsin’s rural life inspires a classical composition May 8, 2007 When Martha Glowacki asked rural sociologist Michael Bell to offer commentary about "Wisconsin's People on the Land," the art exhibition she co-curated for the Wisconsin Academy's James Watrous Gallery, she thought he might say something about the state's rural roots or its long history with agriculture.
  • Broadway veteran to speak at commencement ceremonies May 3, 2007 André De Shields will address new graduates at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, during commencement weekend, Friday-Sunday, May 18-20.