ANNUAL REPORT | 2021–22
Pictured above: Bandhani dyed garments created by students in the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program course with Judy Frater. Photo by Alex André.
Pictured on front cover: UW–Madison Arts banners greet campus at the start of the fall 2021 semester on the lawn outside the Chazen Museum of Art. Photo by Mats Rudels.
Introduction ........................................................................... 4 The Arts for Everyone, Everywhere Mission, Vision & Goals Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Update By the Numbers Programs .............................................................................. 10 Arts CreativeTogetherArts Awards Arts Residency InterdisciplinaryProgramsArts Residency Programs International Visiting Artist Program The Studio: Creative Arts Community Artivism Student Action Program Arts Business Competition Arts on Campus Communications Arts Recruitment Support Your UW Days Arts Crawl Appendix ............................................................................. 32 Staff 2021–22CommitteesListingFinancial & In-Kind Contributors UW—Madison Arts Community TABLE OF CONTENTS
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faculty and celebrate faculty promotions, tenure, and administrative appointments. All faculty and staff in the arts were invited and 65 attended the first Workinggathering.closely with campus partners is core to executing our goals. We consulted with arts leadership through the Arts Chairs and Directors Council (ACDC), representing arts departments and arts presenting units across campus, to address concerns and help us make decisions on behalf of the arts on campus. The Academic Affairs Committee (AAC), made up of faculty across all the arts, addressed arts curricular concerns and planned for guest artist residencies. Faculty and staff from the arts departments on the Arts Recruitment Working Group (ARWG) continued to work toward boosting enrollment numbers in the arts (page 28).
Throughout the year, we invited students to participate in our community as well. We connected with members of Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) in the arts to build networks and address common needs and questions. In September, we launched the Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP), which provided immediate financial support for student-led, art-based interrogations of longstanding oppressions, biases, and inequities (page 22). I am thrilled to share that within just one month, all funds had been awarded to a variety of arts projects, including: a celebration of intersecting queer and Asian identities at an open mic night; integrating art making into the fall kickoff for DREAMers, a student organization which advocates for undocumented and DACA-recipient students; and a durational performance art piece celebrating queer identity. This fast turnaround is testament not only to the need for low-barrier funding access, but also to the future of student artistry and activism on this campus.
Following the first year of my directorship, I am proud to present the Division of the Arts’ annual report from the 2021-2022 academic year to our growing community.
We began the academic year with a convocation – to gather and welcome the significantly diverse UW–Madison arts community, which includes faculty, staff, and students in 10 departments across four schools and colleges. Arts Forward Together is a new fall event designed to introduce new arts
Student Engagement
With the formal move of the Wisconsin Film Festival and the Madison Early Music Festival to new administrative homes, we began the infrastructural work to revisit our mission, vision, values, and goals, and reposition the Division of the Arts’ relationship with the academic arts departments (see page 6). Our work is centered around the vision that the Arts are for Everyone, Everywhere. It informs our goals, is attached to our core values, and manifests in our current work through access, advocacy, and innovation. This vision highlights the unique places that the arts live at UW–Madison.
to share what the arts community at UW can offer prospective students and the surrounding communities. At the end of the spring semester, we invited all arts faculty and staff to the annual Creative Arts Awards (page 12) to celebrate our community’s achievements and service.
THE ARTS FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE
Implementing Our Vision
UW–Madison Arts Community
We aim to bring the UW–Madison arts community together as much as possible by facilitating programming and resource spaces to create access for faculty, staff, and students. Held alongside faculty events, Arts Together gatherings allowed arts faculty to get to know each other and engage in one another’s art and research (page 10). In March, we coordinated the inaugural Arts Crawl, highlighting a collection of arts events held over several days in the arts departments and co-curricular arts units at UW–Madison (page 30). It was an opportunity
Looking Ahead
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The 2021-22 annual report gives evidence of the Division’s strong and budding partnerships. Each section expounds on the ways in which we are meeting our goals, while also revealing opportunities to pursue in the coming year. The Arts for Everyone, Everywhere is a big vision, but it is one with multiple points of entry. It is dependent on partnerships, collaborations, and the ability for our visioning to manifest in diverse, accessible programming. We look forward to exploring the ways in which we can collaborate and together realize “the Arts for Everyone Everywhere.”
Director, Division of the Arts
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Pictured: Chris Walker, Director of the Division of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks to the audience at the start of the Line Breaks Hip Hop Festival held at the Playhouse Theater inside the Overture Center on April 1, 2022. Photo by Bryce Richter.
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Dusk falls to nighttime as pedestrians walk along East Campus Mall past the Chazen Museum of Art. Photo by Jeff Miller.
MISSION, VISION & GOALS: ARTS FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE
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The Division of the Arts unifies and catalyzes the arts at UW–Madison. We support and promote the missions of the academic arts departments and affiliated partners, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, deepen the student experience, build community engagement, and advocate for inclusion, diversity, equity, and access across the arts.
f The University of Wisconsin–Madison will be recognized as a leader in creating interdisciplinary collaborative communities of practice in the arts and in supporting inquiry across diverse disciplines in multiple schools, colleges, and student-led groups.
f At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the arts will be broadly understood as integral to realizing its teaching, research, and outreach missions, its commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, and access, and to the Wisconsin Idea.
Mission
f The arts will be accessible to every person in all parts of their life.
Vision
Arts programming and communications will significantly improve inclusion, diversity, equity, and access at UW–Madison.
Arts departments and co-curricular units will thrive and grow, and there will be a cohesive, recognizable, and powerful campus arts community.
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Goals
Faculty and staff will see the Division as a partner and a resource in furthering their teaching, research, and outreach in the arts.
Students will experience the arts in diverse aspects of their education and will embrace the importance of the arts in their lives.
Campus leaders will steadfastly engage leaders in the arts in decision making and initiatives that advance the mission of the university.
For more information please visit artsdivision.wisc.edu/mission
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The Division will be a robust and essential presence in the Madison community and a strong force in creating mutually beneficial community partnerships.
The Division will function as catalyst and convener with and for the academic arts programs in creating interdisciplinary programming.
At the end of the fiscal year, the IDEA Committee initiated a self-assessment utilizing the Badger AntiRacist Coalition’s pilot rubric. This program facilitates conversation around the questions: how are we perpetuating racism and oppression right here in our workplace, and what can we do to change that? The outcome of this self-evaluation will inform the action plan in development for the 2022-23 year. artsdivision.wisc.edu/committees/idea/
Arts and IDEA
Why IDEA?
INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ACCESS UPDATE
IDEA Committee
All forms of artistic expression, experience, and interpretation are tools for activating these values of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in communities. The arts hold a unique power to challenge dominant ways of thinking and being, to offer greater understanding of the world, and to transform how we
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In collaboration with all of the Division of the Arts staff, the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee drafted a new statement reflecting the importance of anti-racist values in our work.
relate to one another. Furthermore, we believe that interdisciplinary practice in the arts can dismantle barriers and build bridges, cultivate intellectual artistic diversity, and offer opportunities to people who have been excluded from traditional modes of inquiry and practice.
The Division commits to removing all oppressive systems and ideologies within our organization, which requires an equitable distribution of resources, shared power, and shifts in institutional practices that uphold white supremacy and other discriminatory ideologies. Division leadership and staff are working to center inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in all of our programming and practices. To learn more about the concrete steps we are taking and for updates on our progress, please visit our IDEA Committee webpage.
IDEA at Division of the Arts
Inclusion, diversity, equity, and access are sources of creativity, excellence, and innovation. Building our communities around these values fosters cultural understanding and connection. IDEA creates the conditions for more honest, just, and compassionate relationships, which in turn creates a greater sense of belonging. Belonging goes beyond inclusion to mean that individuals feel welcomed, valued, and involved in shaping their communities, as well as empowered to express their needs and receive care.
The IDEA Committee launched the Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP) in September (page 22). In addition, the Division sponsored numerous student events and programs that support campus IDEA efforts, totaling $10,775, including: Black History Month Keynote: An Evening with Ruth E. Carter (February 27); Kinabukasan: Our Future is Now, the Midwest Filipinx American Summit (April 2); WUD Stock: Isaiah Collier concert (April 24), and the Wisconsin Black Student Union’s Ebony Ball (April 27).
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts | Annual Report | 2021–22 9 25+ $10,775 11,800 The UW–Madison Division of the Arts provides a number of resources to its community and campus partners. The following facts and figures highlight achievements during the 2021-22 academic year. 33 Guest Artists 64 Faculty & Staff Affiliates BY THE NUMBERS MentionsMedia 31 Campus & PartnershipsCommunity E-news Subscribers Social YouTubeFollowersMediaViews9,0109,60714,111 Event forAttendancetheYear Events included: f Arts Together f Arts Business Competition f Arts Recruitment f Arun Luthra Residency f Judy Frater Residency f Omari Carter Residency f Creative Arts Awards INTRODUCTION | SponsorshipDistributedDollars
Additional Arts Together events were held throughout the year to showcase arts faculty research and gather in community:
Tour of Seeing Audubon: Robert Havell, Jr. and The Birds of America with curator Emily Arthur and Black Arts Matter Festival
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TOGETHER
Presented in partnership with the Chazen Museum of Art, Arts Forward Together represented a strong investment by the Museum in the Division and the campus arts community. Faculty research took center stage during a performance by a quartet including fall 2021 Interdisciplinary Artist-inResidence Arun Luthra and residency faculty lead Johannes Wallmann, Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of
• December 1, 2021
Bilingual poetry reading, tour of Intercambios: Art, Stories, & Comunidad, and dance and musical performance by Fandango sin Fronteras Partners: Center for Design and Material Culture, Centro Hispano, Department of Civil Society & Community Studies, Design Studies Department, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program
Pictured: Two musicians from Fandango sin Fronteras having a blast at the Arts Together event. Photo by Mats Rudels.
The Division of the Arts celebrated the start of a new academic year by kicking off a new event series: Arts Together. The initial gathering in September, Arts Forward Together: A Welcome Back Event, was an opportunity to reconnect and heralded the return of the arts on campus in-person. It marked the first time arts faculty and staff got together since lockdown, and the first time the Division celebrated and recognized new arts faculty and leaders. It was also the first public event hosted by new Division director Chris Walker. Provost John Karl Scholz, Chief Diversity Officer LaVar Charleston, Dean Diana Hess, and other campus arts leaders were among 65 in attendance.
• March 25, 2022
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Exploring screendance and the premiere of Bodies, Borders & Belonging, a project by students enrolled in Litza Bixler’s spring 2021 Interdisciplinary Arts Residency course
Partners: Art Department, Chazen Museum of Art, and Wisconsin Union Theater
• April 6, 2022
Partners: Art Department, Department of Communication Arts, and Dance Department
ARTSMusic.
Pictured top/left-to-bottom/right: Students interact with Bodies, Borders & Belonging at the December Arts Together event. Photo by Mats Rudels; Division of the Arts Director Chris Walker addresses UW faculty and staff at the Arts Forward Together welcome event. Photo by Mats Rudels; UW–Madison faculty and staff mingle at the March tour of Seeing Audubon in the Chazen atrium. Photo by Gracie Wallner; Fandangos sin Fronteras dancers perform to music at the Intercambios Arts Together event. Photo by Mats Rudels.
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For the first time in two years, we were able to gather in person for the Creative Arts Awards ceremony on May 10 in the Hamel Music Center.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Creative Arts Awards!
Pictured: Creative Arts Award invitation featuring the work of Marianne Fairbanks, Baron Kelly, Emily Arthur, and Beth Nguyen. Design by Alex André.
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The Division of the Arts serves the arts community by managing award funds, organizing the selection and distribution process for those awards, and presenting the Creative Arts Awards ceremony to inspire arts research and achievement by example.
This year’s event program was the most inclusive to date, highlighting retirees, nonDivision honors, and student talent. Students who presented work included graduates and undergraduates, arts majors and non majors, showcasing a diversity of disciplines and identities. The event presented a cohesive arts community, including presenters from a variety of departments.
Thank you to this year’s committee: Peggy Choy (Dance Department), Laurie Beth Clark (Art Department), Wei Dong (Design Studies Department), Florence Hsia (Department of History), Dan Lisowski (Department of Theatre and Drama), and Scott Teeple (Mead Witter School of Music).
CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS
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Each year the Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports the arts research of students, faculty, and staff. With the assistance of the Creative Arts Awards (CAA) selection committee, 21 outstanding students, faculty, and staff were recognized for awards totaling $115,000. Five residents of The Studio were also recognized for service and research projects.
Emily Kammerud, Medical Program Assistant, Department of Pathology
Praveen Maripelly, MFA student, Art Molly Mattaini, Ph.D. candidate, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies; Katherine Norman, Ph.D. candidate, Educational Psychology; and Kailea Saplan, Ph.D. candidate, Curriculum and Instruction (group project)
Lindsey Meekhof, DMA student, Music Performance
Sophia Abrams, undergraduate, Journalism and Afro-American Studies | Certificate in Art History Ana Tinder, undergraduate, Music Performance
Mengmeng Wang, DMA student, Music Performance
Pictured top-to-bottom: Quanda Johnson performs with Heavyn Dyer-Jones; Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Judy Frater with Professors Darcy Padilla (Art) and Carolyn Kallenborn (Design Studies); Jackson Neal performs Black Earth with Abigail Arkley. Photos by Mats Rudels.
Baron Kelly, Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama, and the Odyssey Project
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Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts
Baron Kelly, Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama, and the Odyssey Project
Magdalena Sas, DMA student, Music Performance
Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie
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Graduate Student Creative Arts Awards
Lianne Milton, MFA student, Art Henry Obeng, MFA student, Design Studies Derick Wycherly, MFA student, Art
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Cole Bartels, DMA student, Music Performance Carlos Ortiz, Ph.D. candidate, Spanish and Portuguese
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Marianne Fairbanks, Associate Professor, Design Studies Department
Adriana Barrios, Engagement Manager, Center for Design and Material Culture
Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts
Judson Undergraduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award
Jennifer Angus, Professor, Design Studies Department
Emily Arthur, Associate Professor, Art Department
Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts
Beth Nguyen, Professor, Creative Writing Program
Creative Arts Award
Saxophonist, composer, and konnakol artist Arun Luthra is an American musician of Indian heritage who fuses modern post-bop Black American Music with elements of Indian classical music, especially konnakol (South Indian classical music vocal percussion). He connects a wide range of modern and classic musical influences to create a vibrant new sound and style. He is the leader of the Konnakol Jazz Project, who have performed across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. He has studied and performed with notable Hindustani and Carnatic music masters. Luthra has also shared the stage and recorded with many of the greatest Black American Music and Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, pop, and world music artists. He is also a faculty member of the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the New School’s College of Performing Arts in New York.
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM ARUN LUTHRA FALL 2021
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Pictured left-to-right: Arun Luthra headshot. Photo by Alex Troesch; Arun Luthra leads the Contemporary Jazz Ensemble at the final residency collaboration at Arts + Literature Laboratory. Photo by Mats Rudels.
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Arun Luthra’s residency was presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts and hosted by the Mead Witter School of Music with Professor Johannes Wallmann as lead faculty. Co-sponsors included the Center for South Asia, the Department of Anthropology, and the Wisconsin Union Theater along with Arts + Literature Laboratory and the Wisconsin Science Festival. Additional event partners included the Indian Graduate Student Association, Tandem Press, Café CODA, Jazz at Five, and North Street Cabaret.
Funded through the Office of the Provost, the Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) brings innovative, world-class art ists to campus for semester-long residencies. Artists teach an interdisciplinary course, present public events, and participate in community outreach. The program gives students exposure to working artists, provides course credit, and strengthens programmatic ties across disciplines.
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In the fall of 2021, Luthra taught two courses: “The Universal Language of Rhythm: Explorations through Konnakol and Black American Music” (three credits) and “Contemporary Jazz Ensemble” (one credit). 17 students from 10 different majors participated in the three-credit course. Students were introduced to konnakol, the Carnatic (South Indian classical) music discipline of vocalizing rhythms. They explored the universality of rhythm through science, history, politics, and other disciplines. Some students in the course expressed that it was the first time they felt they had been represented culturally in the classroom.
Pictured: Arun Luthra joined UW–Madison Mead Witter School of Music faculty as part of the annual Conference on South Asia. Photo by Mats Rudels.
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Luthra also introduced many Mead Witter School of Music faculty to konnakol through collaborative performance, expanding their artistic practice and research. He brought konnakol to the Madison and Milwaukee communities through 17 public events, reaching nearly 7,000 people in-person and online throughout the semester. This marks one of the largest events-focused residencies since 2015, along with the highest attendance. Luthra’s first ticketed performance in September kicked off the return to in-person performances at the Wisconsin Union
Residency Highlights
7, Tala Mela: A Celebration of the Universal Language of Rhythm, the culminating residency event at Arts + Literature Laboratory, featured performances by Arun Luthra with the UW–Madison Contemporary Jazz Ensemble (Mead Witter School of Music), students in the class, and guest artist Rohan Krishnamurthy (percussion). It was a fitting celebration to end the semester at the residency partner’s Arts + Literature Laboratory location. Arun’s first performance was during their Madison Jazz Festival in June 2021.
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Judy Frater’s residency was presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts and hosted by the Design Studies Department with Professor Jennifer Angus as lead faculty. Additional supporters included the Art Department, Department of Art History, Bolz Center for Arts Administration, Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE), Center for Design and Material Culture, Center for South Asia, Global Artisans Initiative through the 4W (Women & Wellbeing in Wisconsin & the World) Initiative, and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
Pictured left-to-right: Portrait of Judy Frater. Photo by Mats Rudels; Judy Frater and Professor Jennifer Angus demonstrate the Bandhani dying technique for students in the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency course. Photo by Alex André.
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Living in the Kutch region in the Northwest part of India for 30 years, Judy Frater co-founded Kala Raksha Trust and Museum. An award-winning Ashoka Fellow, she founded the first design schools for artisans: Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya and its current structure Somaiya Kala Vidya. Previously, she was Associate Curator of The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Threads of Identity: Embroidery and Adornment of the Nomadic Rabaris, The Art of the Dyer in Kutch, and numerous other publications. Frater also received the Sir Misha Black Medal.
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM JUDY FRATER SPRING 2022
Four guest textile artisans joined the class by video call from Kutch, India for multiple classes to teach their respective textile techniques: Bandhani (similar to Shibori); Ajrakh (block printing); weaving; and Suf embroidery. Inspired by pieces in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection (HLATC), students in Judy’s course co-designed textiles with 15 artisan designers, including the four guest artisans, who then produced the textiles for the culminating exhibition, Coming Together: Culturally Inspired Creation These final works, along with their inspiration object from the HLATC, were a celebration of the language of tradition, collaboration, and hand work in textile design. The exhibit was on view at the Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery in the School of Human Ecology from April 20-May 27, and is also available online. Students worked closely with the Center for Design and Material Culture throughout the process of research, exhibition preparation, and installation.
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f Prakash Naran Siju Residency Highlights
f Irfan Anwar Khatri
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Between the planning visit and the residency itself, Frater participated in six public events along with the exhibition. From artist talks and a student panel to a dazzling trunk show, this residency evidences the power of international collaboration.
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Pictured top-to-bottom: A student shows off their Bandhani dyed garment. Photo by Alex André; Students learned many different styles of textile techniques, including the Suf embroidery seen here. Photo by Alex André; Students co-designed pieces of textile art with partners from India, inspired by examples from the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. Photo by Mats Rudels.
During the spring residency, Judy Frater taught the three-credit course “Cultural Diversity, Connection, Value, and Sustainability — the Role of Hand Craft.” Utilizing design thinking, students were exposed to important issues surrounding small-scale artisan production, value, and sustainability. Students developed valuable hands-on skills working with artisan partners through craft techniques, design, quality control, branding, and storytelling. 15 students enrolled in the course, representing 17 different majors. For some it was the first fine arts course they took for credit.
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Pictured: Omari ‘Motion’ Carter, headshot. Photo by Ambient Jade Photography.
OMARI ‘MOTION’ CARTER
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From April 7-15, we welcomed screendance practitioner, lecturer, and body percussionist Omari ‘Motion’ Carter to campus. Based in London, UK, Carter has been choreographing, teaching, and performing for music videos, film, television, and theatre for the past decade. Carter’s practice is influenced by hip hop dance culture, screendance, and body-percussion. This combines with his 10 years of multi-faceted, dance-filmmaking experience to result in the purposeful creation, presentation, and education of narratives told through dance and the camera. Carter is the recipient of international awards for his work in screendance, and was a member of the West End and International Touring Production of STOMP! from 2011-2018.
During his time in Madison, Carter was a featured panelist and presenter at the International Screendance Symposium, co-sponsored by the Art and Dance Departments. He led workshops around body percussion and using movement to develop narrative. He also taught students enrolled in three different Dance Department courses. Carter’s short film, In Pursuit of Joy: A Screendance BBQ, was featured in a shorts program at the Wisconsin Film Festival, and he participated in a Q&A following the screening.
The International Visiting Artist Program (IVAP) is a three-year collaboration between the Division of the Arts and the International Division. This partnership, launched in the fall of 2019, supports short-term residencies for international artists on campus. Through IVAP, the Division is able to bring visiting artists and their expertise into existing campus arts programs. Visiting artists expand students’ horizons and facilitate opportunities for future collaborations. Funding is provided by the International Division.
INTERNATIONAL VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM
He is the Founder and Creative Director of Motion Dance Collective and Lecturer in Dance at London Contemporary Dance School.
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Pictured top-to-bottom: Omari Carter led students through several workshops in Lathrop Hall, including one specifically for First Wave scholars. Carter was a keynote speaker at the 2022 International Screendance Symposium, held at UW–Madison. Photos by Alex André.
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Carter engaged in critical conversations around the arts, including on The Studio’s The Mind Set podcast, and a forthcoming “Art Is Story: Conversations with Art Makers” episode. From students to community members, all who interacted with Carter during his residency were visibly engaged with his joyful presence. Evidence of this is on the Division’s Instagram account—a Reel from a dance workshop is our most liked content to date. We look forward to future opportunities with international artists.
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Pictured top and bottom: Students performing in Illuminating Indigo: An Immersive Illusion, the culmination of the seminar course taught by Associate Professor Helen Lee. Photos by Mats Rudels.
In the spring, students participating in “The Studio Presents…,” another seminar course taught by Associate Professor Lee, collaborated on a collective artistic project. On May 3, students presented Illuminating Indigo: An Immersive Illusion, exploring the emotional quality of indigo through a collaborative multi-media project featuring live and recorded music (Rae Ng), live and live-streamed movement (Shriya Goyal), and live and collaborative painting (Amanda Grant, Jenna Paulson, and The Studio residents).
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After a year of virtual programming, The Studio returned to in-person programming, inviting artists from campus and the community to meet and cocreate with residents in the same space. In the fall, students enrolled in the interdisciplinary, hands-on “Mapping Your Creative Practice” course worked with The Studio’s Faculty Director, Associate Professor Helen Lee, to explore a wide range of studio spaces, tools, and resources for making and viewing art on campus. The seminar also offered opportunities to collaborate with practicing artists.
The Studio offers residents access to art and performance spaces and provides numerous opportunities for them to attend cultural events. Residents participate in seminar courses and use their artistic skills and talents to serve the greater UW–Madison community through projects, performances, collaborations, and exhibitions.
The Studio: Creative Arts Community is a residential learning community located in Ogg Hall that hosts academic and co-curricular programming for 64 first and second-year students with an expressed interest in the arts. It is co-sponsored by the Division of University Housing, the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement, and the Division of the Arts.
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Service Award
The Studio Creative Arts Awards
Pictured top-to-bottom: Faculty director Helen Lee giving Studio residents a glass blowing demonstration. Photo by Mats Rudels; The Mind Set podcast thumbnail; Studio residents at the December 2021 Studio Showcase. Photo by Mats Rudels.
f Welcomed Helen Lee, Associate Professor of Glassworking in the Art Department, who assumed the role of Faculty Director in August 2021
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Sarah Abbas, English: Creative Writing and Psychology, in support of increasing public access to art by printing and wheat-pasting poems around the campus area
f Created The Mind Set podcast, produced and hosted by Learning Community Program Assistant and Studio alum Dawry Ruiz
f Hired four Peer Mentors to support residents in artistic pursuits starting in fall 2022
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TATI (That’s All There Is)—Isaac Yang, Communications; Carly De La Masa, Graphic Design; Annika Hall, Environmental Studies and Legal Studies; and Jake Shipley, Theatre and Drama, in support of researching how Neo-futurist theatre can be used as a medium to transform ideas, questions, and thoughts into palatable, meaningful, and entertaining performances
Key Highlights
Research Award
f Hosted 25 events, opportunities, and moments of social gathering
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Endurance Queen | Dan Van Note
Following the 2020 national reckoning with racism and police brutality, the Division of the Arts was inspired to mobilize our commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts in new, more concrete ways. Encouraged by students’ energy to create art-based interrogations of longstanding oppressions, biases, and inequities, the Division sought funding from UW–Madison’s Anonymous Fund to power ASAP.
The Gusset: A Midwestern BIPOC Poetry Anthology | Zack Lesmeister, Azura Tyabji, and Sarah Abbas
The Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP) aims to fund a variety of projects and related expenditures for any creative action intersecting art and activism with particular attention paid to projects that feature, center, benefit, and/or are led by community members experiencing identity-based oppression. ASAP is unique in providing UW—Madison students with direct and immediate financial assistance through a low-barrier application and reporting process.
Don Giovanni | Lindsey Meekhof and Aubrie Jacobson
With an initial $20,000 in funding, we supported student-led endeavors—both individual as well as those in cross-campus and community partnership— that emerged from the intersections of art and activism to address social issues, facilitate dialogue, and create spaces in which social transformation can be imagined and implemented.
Please join the Division of the Arts in congratulating the first annual ASAP award recipients:
Pictured: Joel Baraka and Anson Liow. Photo provided by Joel Baraka.
South Philly Legends | Jason Hill, Azeem Williams, and Jaylin Reid
Queer X Asian Open Mic | Sophia Boté and Ciboney Reglos
ARTIVISM STUDENT ACTION PROGRAM
Chai Stories | Praveen Maripelly
Islamic Art Night | Sanaa Semia DREAMers Fall Kickoff Meeting | Jazmine ZunigaPaiz Networking Through the Arts | Elias Sobah and Augusta Ike
Your African Quest | Joel Baraka and Anson Liow
Pictured left-to-right: Endurance Queen by Dan Van Note. Photo by Jacqueline Kehoe; DREAMers Fall Kickoff Meeting by Jazmine Zuniga-Paiz. Photo provided by DREAMers; Networking Through the Arts by Elias Sobah and Augusta Ike. Photo provided by the Wisconsin Black Student Union; Islamic Art Night by Sanaa Semia. Photo by Sanaa Semia.
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The Arts Business Competition encourages new thinking and innovative ideas. The campus-wide competition provides support for student-driven projects. Entrants develop and submit a detailed proposal for an arts event, exhibition, series, commercial venture, or other artistic project. Three independent judges review the proposals, choose three finalists, and select the first, second, and third place winning proposals at the final pitch presentation.
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The Arts Business Competition is presented by the Division of the Arts in partnership with the Bolz Center for Arts Administration along with WARF-D2P Entrepreneurons. Funding for the Arts Business Competition provided by the Anonymous Fund.
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BUSINESS COMPETITION
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The 2022 Arts Business Competition was held on April 27 at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. This year, the judging panel consisted of: Derrick Holt, consultant, teaching artist, and recording engineer; Alejandro Miranda Cruz, director, cinematographer, and co-founder of Bravebird; and Anne Katz, executive director of Create Wisconsin (formerly Arts ARTSWisconsin).
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Pictured: 2022 Arts Business Competition finalists pose with the judges and organizers in the Discovery Building. Photo by Mats Rudels.
2nd Prize - $1,000
The Mycological Menagerie is a multi-media art exhibition aimed to support the understanding of fungi in the eyes of the public by demonstrating how fungi unites us all.
PROGRAMS
Flow Project Gallery | Julia Buskirk, undergraduate, Journalism and Conservation Biology; Alexandra Lakind, PhD candidate, Environment and Resources and Curriculum and Instruction; Anna Heinen, undergraduate, Art and Environmental Studies
The Flow Project Gallery brings Wisconsin’s water issues to the forefront through art by connecting UW student artists with water professionals across the state.
Your African Quest | Joel Baraka, undergraduate, Civil Engineering; Anson Liow, MS student, Civil Engineering
Unframed aims to tell the stories and cultural awareness of the underrepresented in the world through their artwork.
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Emerging Artist Awards - $250
1st Prize - $2,000
The following projects were funded:
Mocha Books | Kyla Pollard, undergraduate, Radio, Television and Film
Unframed | Logan Butson, MBA student, Marketing Analytics and Insights
Pictured: Heather Owens speaks with some of the Arts Business Competition finalists. Photo by Mats Rudels.
New this year, the Arts Business Competition also granted Emerging Artist Awards to undergraduate-led projects that received high scores from the judging panel:
Your African Quest is a board game (8 years-old and above) aiming to satisfy the curiosity and knowledge about the diversity in Africa through different categories including countries and cities, food, nature, people, and cultures.
3rd Prize - $500
The Mycological Menagerie | Savannah Gentry, PhD candidate, Botany; Nora Dunkirk, PhD candidate, Botany; Naamon Peyton, undergraduate, Microbiology
Mocha Books is a project dedicated to bringing visibility to the lives and stories of Black youth by partnering with schools and organizations to distribute blank books to students to write and publish their autobiographies.
f Badger Talks opportunitiesprogram
E-communications: 9,227 subscribers
Two meetings were held during the 2021-22 academic year, where the group addressed the following topics:
f @uwmadisonarts social media strategy
f Results from the Arts Communicators survey
Arts on Campus is an ongoing, multiplatform promotional campaign for the arts at UW–Madison designed to promote the wealth of campus arts programming and opportunities to students, faculty, staff, and community members. arts.wisc.edu
The Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC) team also continued working closely with University Communications to to boost the represenation of arts events and opportunities across campus and beyond, resulting in several stories and media mentions in official campus publications.
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f Data analytics and impact
ARTS ON CAMPUS COMMUNICATIONS
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Pictured: A screenshot from the first Arts Communicators group meeting, organized by the Division of the Arts to promote more collaboration on campus. Photo provided by Kate Lochner.
The IMC team formed the Arts Communicators Group, a community of practice and network for staff working in marketing and communications in the arts at UW-Madison. (page 33).
f Ways the Division supports the arts on campus and how to get involved
f New Today@UW event calendar features
: 6,954 followers
During the 2021-22 academic year, the Division of the Arts continued its collaborations with numerous campus units via the Division’s communication channels on campus, locally, and nationally, including advertising, outreach, and resource fairs.
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Pictured: Screen grabs from various Instagram Posts, Stories, and Reels from spring 2022. Content created by Aaron Granat and Alex André.
3 TakeoversInstagramStudent 60+ RequestsPromotional PartnershipsPromotional
Social Media
Unexpected changes in social media trends altered the landscape dramatically as the younger generations move away from Facebook and Twitter and gravitate toward Instagram and the upstart, TikTok. Coinciding with those demographic changes, content trends shifted heavily to video as shorter, “bite-sized” content dominates viral content in no small part due to a change in the algorithm that favors video.
The Division of the Arts pivoted as well, capitalizing on the active, visually-rich experiences that are in our orbit, growing our following on Instagram by 13.2% and our total audience across platforms by 7.4%.
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During the past year, in consultation with arts departments, the Division extended a multiplatform campaign to promote academic arts programs and our vibrant community of excellence in the arts to prospective students. Through online and print materials, social media, promotional items, and email campaigns, the Division connected with students at all points of their decision-making process. In summer 2022, the Division will again host an Arts on Campus resource table at all 28 sessions of Student Orientation, Advising, and Registration (SOAR).
The Arts Recruitment Initiative was launched in 2017 with the goal of boosting enrollment in academic arts programs. The Division convenes the Arts Recruitment Working Group to facilitate communication between the arts departments, the Office of Admissions and Recruitment, and Division staff, and to inform recruitment support activities.
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The Division also worked closely with the Office of Admissions and Recruitment to develop a new Arts Recruitment Coordinator position to be shared between the units. This individual, who will travel to performing arts high schools and college fairs, is expected to join our teams in September 2022.
ARTS RECRUITMENT SUPPORT
Pictured: Current undergraduates answer questions from prospective students during the Your UW Days Peer-to-Peer session in Lathrop Hall. Photo by Alex André.
Pictured: A Campus and Visitor Relations tour guide leads a group of prospective and admitted students and their guests along East Campus Mall during a walking tour of the University of Wisconsin—Madison campus. Photo by Jeff Miller.
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Your UW Days
PROGRAMS
Your UW Days are day-long spring yield events produced by the Office of Admissions and Recruitment. This year, there were three in-person sessions on March 11, March 25, and April 8, and a virtual session made available in February. These opportunities allowed admitted students to visit UW–Madison, engage with faculty, advisors, and students, and tour departments before finalizing their enrollment decisions.
During breakout sessions in the morning, Division Director Chris Walker presented to a total of 95 admitted students and guests on the unique and diverse ways to improve students’ Wisconsin Experience through the arts. Arts Recruitment Working Group members coordinated tours of the arts departments in the afternoon, led by current undergraduate students. Approximately 60 guests attended the Arts on Campus Peer-to-Peer sessions, featuring a panel of undergraduate students from across campus. The group discussed how arts majors and non-majors integrate the arts into their UW–Madison experience.
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PhotosPressgo.wisc.edu/ArtsCrawl
The Division encouraged involvement by all arts units and promoted events on the Arts Crawl calendar. The Arts Crawl drew participation from members of the public as well as university students. One department was inspired to continue opening entry-level classes to visitors for the remainder of the semester.
Photo by Brian Huynh.
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Pictured: Lecturer Ariel (AJ) Juarez teaches an undergraduate hip hop dance course in Lathrop Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This class session was open to the public as part of the 2022 Arts Crawl.
Arts Crawl
The inaugural Arts Crawl highlighted a collection of arts events held over several days in the arts departments and co-curricular arts units at UW–Madison. This opportunity for campus and community members to engage in creative arts experiences took the form of demonstrations and workshops, as well as the chance to visit arts classes, lectures, talks, performances, exhibitions, and rehearsals. It ran from March 31 –April 2, culminating in performances at the 2022 Line Breaks Festival.
• Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives / First Wave Hip Hop & Urban Arts Learning Community
• Wisconsin Union Directorate Distinguished Lecture Series
• Mead Witter School of Music
• Department of Art History
• Wheelhouse Studios
Registered OrganizationsStudent
• Chazen Museum of Art
• UW–Madison Filipinix American Student Organization
• Design Studies Department
• Center for South Asia
• Tandem Press
• Wisconsin Union Directorate Music Committee
• Art Department
• UW Cinematheque
Academic Units
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• Center for Design and Material Culture
• Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee
• Dance Department
• Department of Communication Arts
Pictured top/left-to-bottom: A student spins pottery in the Arts Lofts studio. Lecturer Michelle Ramos leads a jazz dance class open to all UW students. Ian Schmidt, 3D technician in the Art Department, holds a glass blowing demonstration as part of the 2022 Arts Crawl. Photos by Alex André.
• Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Student Center
• Wisconsin Union Theater
• Wisconsin Union Directorate Art Committee
Arts Crawl Participating Units:
Co-Curricular Units
* denotes part-time staff
Administration
aryn kresol, Arts Residency Programs Coordinator
Alexander André, Multimedia Designer
Heather Owens, Communications and Outreach Specialist
Kate Hewson, Associate Director
Duncan DiFazio, Arts Programs Assistant*
Dominique Haller, The Studio Program Manager*
Division
Staff from
Programs
Integrated Marketing & Communications
and the Chazen Museum of
Helen Lee, The Studio Faculty Director*
Aaron Granat, Videographer*
For a current list of staff, visit: artsdivision.wisc.edu/people/staff
Pictured: the of the Arts Art Mats Rudels.
Rachel Niles, Administrative and HR Specialist
STAFF LISTING (AS OF JUNE 30, 2022)
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Chris Walker, Director*
Lisa Spierer, Administrative Specialist
Kate Lochner, Marketing & Communications Manager
Emilie Schada, Advancement Manager
during the 2021 Arts Forward Together event. Photo by
The Arts Recruitment Working Group works to boost enrollment numbers in the arts. Meetings were held in October and February. The Division collaborated with working group members to open a virtual tour pilot. Additionally, the Division organized an informational panel with staff from the Office of Admissions and Recruitment and members to improve interdepartmental understanding of recruitment policies.
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The chairs of all the academic arts departments and directors of co-curricular arts-related units comprise the Arts Chairs and Directors Council. The committee focused on thriving and growing arts departments and co-curricular units, and strengthening Division partnerships.
COMMITTEES
Arts Recruitment Working Group
Arts Communicators
Arts Chairs and Directors Council
Academic Affairs Committee
The Academic Affairs Committee oversees the Integrated Arts course subject listing, reviews proposals for the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program, and consults on shared academic concerns impacting the arts across colleges. This year, the committee discussed how to improve the arts on campus experience for students, strengthening Division partnerships with faculty and staff, and improving inclusion, diversity, equity, and access on campus.
The Arts Communicators group was formed in February in order to create a community and network for staff working in communications and marketing in the arts at UW–Madison. The Division’s aim for the group is to share marketing and communications knowledge, resources, and best practices. The group also serves as a space for interdepartmental networking, and to share upcoming events and campaigns for cross-promotional collaboration. There was representation from 10 departments at the initial meeting on March 1. Another meeting was held on May 18, with an additional six units participating.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts | Annual Report | 2021–2234 2021–22 FINANCIAL & IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS (July 1, 2021–June 30, 2022) $25,000+ Emily Mead Baldwin Bassett IraAnonymousFoundationFundandInevaReilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment $10,000–$24,999 Evjue InternationalFoundationDivision $5,000–$9,999 The Joyce J. & Gerald A. Bartell Family
The
Division of the Arts appreciates the support of the financial and in-kind contributions that make our programs and initiatives possible. To help support excellence in arts teaching, research, and public service, contact development@arts.wisc.edu Pictured: Professor Baron Kelly and Dr. Thomas Bartell at the 2022 Creative Arts Awards in the Hamel Music Center. Photo by Mats Rudels. $1,000–$4,999
Glenn & Edna Wiechers
Janice Golay Barland
David & Edith Sinaiko (in-kind)
Thank you to all of our supporters.
Frank WARF-D2P Entrepreneurons
Jennifer Nelson, Assistant Professor
Dyani White Hawk, Postdoc Fellow*
Sarah Anne Carter, Affiliate
Katie Hudnall, Associate Professor
Tim McCarty, Department Administrator
Lynda Barry, Professor
Diane Bollant-Peschl, Department Administrator
Tamsie Ringler, Lecturer
Thomas E. A. Dale, Professor
Jennifer Angus, Affiliate
Branden Martz, Graduate Program Manager & Academic Advisor
Henrique Nardi, Lecturer
Gloriann Langva, Lecturer
Jill H. Casid, Professor
Teddy Kaul, Student Services
Douglas Rosenberg, Professor Andy Rubin, Lecturer
Tom Jones, Professor
Michael Peterson, Professor
Anna Campbell, Affiliate
Marina Moskowitz, Affiliate
Department of Art History | arthistory.wisc.eduFaisalAbdu’Allah , Affiliate
Jordan Rosenblum, Professor & Department Chair
Jennifer Pruitt, Associate Professor
Mary Frat, Financial Specialist
Leah Kolb, Lecturer
Helen Hawley, Lecturer
Darcy Padilla, Associate Professor
Art Department | art.wisc.edu
Tim O’Neill, 3D Technician
Guzzo Pinc, Lecturer
*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
Aristotle Georgiades, Professor^ Lisa Gralnick, Professor
Tomiko Jones, Assistant Professor
Kel Mur, Lecturer
Kyle Herrera, Lecturer
Helen Lee, Associate Professor
Nancy Rose Marshall, Professor
Steve Nadler, Affiliate
Daniel Spaulding, Assistant Professor Kirsten Wolf, Professor
Jamie Jacobson, Lecturer
Bolz Center for Arts Administration | business.wisc.edu/centers/bolzRebeccaBuckman , Associate Director
Ian Schmidt, 3D Technician
Jill H. Casid, Affiliate
Adam L. Kern, Affiliate
Derrick Buisch, Professor & Department Chair
Carolyn Kallenborn, Affiliate^
Emily Arthur, Associate Professor
Erin McAdams, 3D Technician
Matt Mauk, Academic Program Manager
Angela Richardson, Teaching Faculty
Meg Mitchell, Associate Professor
Guillermina De Ferrari, Affiliate Paola S. Hernández, Affiliate
Yeohyun Ahn, Assistant Professor
Russ Coff, Faculty Director
Cate Richards, Lecturer
William Aylward, Affiliate
UW–MADISON ARTS COMMUNITY (AS OF JUNE 30, 2022)
Andrew Bearnot, Lecturer
John Baldacchino, Professor
Elaine Scheer, Professor
Marianne Fairbanks, Affiliate
Laurie Beth Clark, Professor
Stephen Hilyard, Professor Ben Hirby, Lecturer
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Yuhang Li, Associate Professor
Jane McCarthy, Administrative Assistant Laura McClure, Professor
Tom Zickuhr, Lecturer
For a current list of UW–Madison Arts Community faculty and staff, please visit unit websites.
Sarah FitzSimons, Associate Professor
Leslie Smith III, Assistant Professor & Associate Chair Fred Stonehouse, Professor
Kristin Phillips-Court, Associate Professor
Jonathan Senchyne, Affiliate
Preeti Chopra, Professor Laurie Beth Clark, Affiliate
John Surdyk, Director & INSITE & Entrepreneurship
Emma Pryde, Lecturer
Jeffrey Butler, Lecturer
Michael Velliquette, Faculty Associate Joshua Wampole, Facilities Maintenance Specialist
Mary Hoefferle, Faculty Associate
Tina Sweep, Communications Manager
Marguerite Lenius, Adjunct Professor
Faisal Abdu’Allah, Associate Dean & Professor
Nicholas D. Cahill, Professor
Dennis Miller, Professor^
Peter Flanary, Lecturer
Anna Campbell, Affiliate
Gail Simpson, Professor^
Sarah Marty, Director
Anna Andrzejewski, Professor
Gerit Grimm, Associate Professor Mary Hark, Affiliate
Ann Smart Martin, Professor^
John Hitchcock, Professor
Lucas Pointon, Lecturer
Duane Holland, Assistant Professor
Jordan Craig, Multimedia Archivist
Michael King, Academic Curator
Ben Reiser, Outreach Specialist
Amanda Smith, Film Archivist
Heather Good, Department Administrator II
Amy Schultz, Digital Certificate Advisor
Kirstin Pires, Editor
Andrea Harris, Associate Professor & Department Chair
Aurora Shimshak, Teaching Assistant
Ale Nicolet, Director of Development & Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association
James R. Wehn, Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper
Peter Sengstock, Director of Media Services
Jonathan Gray, Professor
Porter Shreve, Professor & Director
Jim Healy, Director of Cinematheque Film Programming
Michael King, Academic Curator
Christopher James Dibernardo, Musician
Department of Communication Arts | commarts.wisc.eduKelleyConway
Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Associate Curator
Casey Coolidge, Visitor Services Coordinator
Sean Bishop, Teaching Faculty & Program Administrator
Noreen McAuliffe, Lecturer
Marcia Standiford, Executive Assistant^
Boyd Hillestad, Media Technician
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Assistant Professor
*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
Li Chiao-Ping, Professor
Claude Heintz, Technical Director
Lea Jacobs, Professor^
Jason Kido Lopez, Assistant Professor
Kate Corby, Professor
Andrea Selbig, Collections Registrar
Mandy Tu, Teaching Assistant
Amy Gilman, Director
Aaron Granat, Videographer
Clara Schanck, Undergraduate Assistant
Derek Hibbs, Assistant Preparator*
Alberto Reyes Morgan, Lecturer (Visiting)
Ben Reiser, Outreach Specialist
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Claire Luchette, Lecturer (Visiting)
K Iver, Lecturer (Visiting)
Lisa Ellis, Lecturer
Jim Healy, Director of Cinematheque Film Programming
Renee LePreau, Teaching Assistant
Katherine Zlabek, Teaching Faculty
, Professor & Department Chair
Leila Chatti, Mendota Lecturer in Poetry
Jeff Smith, Professor Creative Writing Program | creativewriting.wisc.eduAmyQuanBarry , Professor
Al Schultz, Administrative Coordinator*
Caleb Parker, Teaching Assistant
UW Cinematheque | cinema.wisc.edu
Mary Huelsbeck, Assistant Director & Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Jose Seda, Visitor Services Assistant
Aaron Greer, Associate Professor
Residential Learning Community
Michelle Wildgen, Lecturer (Visiting)
Adam Hutchinson, Facilities Manager*
Jeremy Morris, Associate Professor
Jamie Prey, Event Coordinator
Jenaille Northey, Visitor Services Assistant
Pauline Lampert, Project Assistant
Kristine Zickuhr, Chief Operating Officer
Eric Hoyt, Professor
Adrienne Rich, Visitor Engagement Manager
Kate Wanberg, Exhibition and Collection Project Manager
Terry Kerr, Event Coordinator
Kathy Ricci, Development Specialist
Kelley Conway, Faculty Advisor
Daniel Feuer, Graduate Program Coordinator
Lindsay Grinstead, Chief of Staff
Ricky Hermida, Inventory Management and Media Creation Specialist*
Ben Singer, Associate Professor
Ken Sabbar, Computer Specialist
Emma Shore, Preparator
Itiola Jones, Lecturer (Visiting)
Candie Waterloo, Head of Museum Education
Megan Kim, Teaching Assistant
Ron Kuka, Teaching Faculty & Program Coordinator
Derek Johnson, Professor
Dantiel W. Moniz, Assistant Professor
Steffie Halverson, Academic Advisor
Mary Rossa, Undergraduate Advisor
James Runde, Instructional Specialist
Amanda Rizkalla, Teaching Assistant
Kristen Bonano, Visitor Services Assistant*
Dance Department | dance.wisc.edu
Amanda Shubert, Lecturer
Andrew Bocher, Musician
Shaina Phenix, Lecturer (Visiting)
John Berner, Preparator
Chazen Museum of Art | chazen.wisc.eduKatherineAlcauskas, Chief Curator
Sarah Jedd, Teaching Faculty III
Erik Gunneson, Teaching Faculty II
Lynn Malone, Department Administrator II
Adrienne Chung, Lecturer (Visiting)
Beth Nguyen, Professor
Lori Kido Lopez, Professor
Peggy Choy, Associate Professor
Lucy Partman, Honorary Fellows
Marina Moskowitz, Professor
Carolyn Kallenborn, Affiliate^
Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies | intertheatrestudiesdept.english.wisc.edu/SandraAdell
Sarah Anne Carter, Associate Professor; Executive Director
Andrea Harris, Associate Professor Paola Hernández, Professor
Kelsey Macomber, Associate Lecturer
Gianofer Fields, Producer-in-Residence
Michelle Ramos, Associate Lecturer
Mary Hark, Professor
Sabine Gross, Professor
Mark Vareschi, Associate Professor Natalie Zervou, Assistant Professor
Rena Kornblum, Senior Lecturer
Majid Sarmadi, Professor
Jill H. Casid, Affiliate
Marina Moskowitz, Faculty Director of Textiles & Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture and Design
, Professor
Sarah Anne Carter, Executive Director & Associate Professor in Design Studies
Kelly N. Hensler, Honorary Fellows
Marianne Fairbanks, Associate Professor
Marianne Fairbanks, Affiliate
Jung-hye Shin, Faculty Director for Design Thinking; Department Chair, Interior Architecture Program Coordinator, Associate Professor
Tim Russell, Teaching Faculty I
Wei Dong, Affiliate
Virginia Boyd, Affiliate
Yuhang Li, Affiliate
Holly Easland, Lecturer
Rebecca Reynolds, Facilities Technician II
Joshua Calhoun, Associate Professor Jill H. Casid, Professor
Jin-Wen Yu, Professor
Sally Roedl, Administrative Assistant II
Margaret Butler, Associate Professor
Liz Sexe, Lecturer
Carolyn Jenkinson, Collections Manager
Karen Mcshane-Hellenbrand, Teaching Faculty II
Maeve Hogan, Graduate Student
Laura McClure, Professor
Karen Britland, Professor
Center for Design and Material Culture | cdmc.wisc.eduJenniferAngus , Affiliate
Kristin Thorleifsdottir, Affiliate Stephanie Wong, Honorary Fellows
*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
Jeff Stanek, Musician
James McMaster, Assistant Professor Frederic Neyrat, Associate Professor Michael Peterson, Professor & Program Director
Chris Walker, Professor
Majid Sarmadi, Affiliate
Adriana Barrios, Engagement Manager
John A. Zeratsky, Honorary Fellows nibiiwakamigkwe, Community Leader-in-Residence Design Studies Department departments/design-studieshumanecology.wisc.edu/academics/|JenniferAngus , Professor
Addison Nace, Graduate Student
Ariel “AJ” Juarez, Associate Lecturer
Sophie Pitman, Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and Research Director
Elizabeth Hooper-Lane, Lecturer Carolyn Kallenborn, Professor^ Maria Kurutz, Teaching Faculty
& Center for Design & Material Culture Yeonhee Cheong, Lecturer
Cynthia Jasper, Affiliate
Kevin Ponto, Affiliate
Mandjou Mara, Musician
Kelly Kwiatkowski, Communications Manager
Collette Stewart, Teaching Faculty I
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Roshelle Ritzenthaler, Honorary Fellows
Kelby Kryshak, Musician
Lesley Sager, Affiliate
Kevin Ponto, Associate Professor Lesley Sager, Teaching Faculty
Erica Halverson, Professor Maksim Hanukai, Assistant Professor
Natalia Zervou, Assistant Professor
Dakota Mace, Photographer
Laurie Beth Clark, Professor Susan C. Cook, Professor Aparna Dharwadker, Professor Christine Garlough, Professor
Michelle Kwasny, Honorary Fellows
Jen Plants, Teaching Faculty III Mary Trotter, Associate Professor Michael Vanden Heuvel, Professor
Mary Hark, Affiliate
Marlene Skog, Assistant Professor
Jung-hye Shin, Professor & Department Chair Uchita Vaid, Assistant Professor*
Nora Renick Rinehart, Graduate Student
Ann Smart Martin, Faculty Director for Material Culture & Stanley and Polly Stone (Chipstone) Professor of American Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Kevin Knapp, Musician
Brooke Godfrey, Teaching Faculty
Wei Dong, Professor
Jennifer Meyers, Lecturer
Maria Kurutz, Affiliate
Laura Sims Peck, Operations Manager
Maya Kadakia, Associate Lecturer
Jean Laurenz, Assistant Professor
Laura Schwendinger, Professor
Gia Euler-Plath, Academic Advisor
Aaron Levine, Ensemble Coordinator
Louka Patenaude, Lecturer
Todd Reck, Undergraduate Advisor
Teryl Dobbs, Professor
Patrick Smyczek, Collaborative Printmaker
Oriol Sans, Assistant Professor & Director of Orchestral
Paul Rowe, Professor
Melanie Wulfekuhle, Ensemble Coordinator
Mimmi Fulmer, Professor
James Doing, Jr., Graduate Admissions Coordinator
Julia Schmidt, Financial Specialist
Mark Hetzler, Professor
Lucille Mok, Lecturer
Susan C. Cook, Professor & Director
Lee Blasius, Professor^
Rachael Griffin, Administrative Manager
Harry Browne, Videographer
Baoli Liu, Piano Technician
Mark Ultsch, Piano Repair & Tuning Specialist
Anne Brutosky, Department Administrator
David Crook, Professor^
Walter Rich, Music Education Teacher Education Program Coordinator
Marc Vallon, Professor
Johanna Wienholts, Lecturer
Dan Brice, Instrument Technician
Daniel Grabois, Associate Professor
Matthew Endres, Teaching Faculty
Eric Murtaugh, Communications Manager
Marina Drake, Graduate Student Coordinator
Dann Petersen, Music Engagement & Outreach Coordinator
Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives | omai.wisc.eduSavionCastro
Joe Freye, Collaborative Printmaker
Nadia Chana, Assistant Professor
Conor Nelson, Assistant Professor
Sally Chisholm, Professor
Dawn Dongeun Wohn, Teaching Faculty*
James Doing, Professor
Christopher Taylor, Professor
J Myszka Lewis, Curator
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David Ronis, Associate Professor and Director of University
Liz Root, Ensemble Coordinator
Activities
Parry Karp, Professor
Julia Rottmayer, Teaching Faculty
Jean Swack, Professor^
Jessica Johnson, Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Diana Wheeler, Student Services and Curriculum Manager
Hazel Symonette, Evaluation Facilitator
Anthony Di Sanza, Professor
Eugene Purdue, Teaching Faculty
Opera
Lindsay Flowers, Assistant Professor
*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
, Director of Theatre Production & Teaching
Suzanne Beia, Artist in Residence
Javier Calderon, Professor
Matthew Koester, Teaching Faculty*
Tom Ross, Teaching Specialist
Alicia Lee, Assistant Professor
Johannes Wallmann, Professor & Director of Jazz Studies
Brian Hyer, Professor
Uri Vardi, Professor^
Martha Fischer, Professor & Associate Director
Seth Klekamp, Preparator
Todd Hammes, Teaching Specialist
Tandem Press | tandempress.wisc.edu
Brian Heller, Facilities Director
Department of Theatre and Drama | theatre.wisc.eduJahanaAzodi
Jason Ruhl, Collaborative Printmaker
Les Thimmig, Professor
Erica Neal, Administrative Specialist
, Program Assistant
Mead Witter School of Music | music.wisc.eduGaryBarnes , Accountant
Wendy Johnson, Assistant Director
Chad McCullough, Lecturer
Alexander Gonzalez, Assistant Director of Bands
Andrew Vaudt, Payroll & Benefits Specialist
Jared Jellison, Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator
Terri Bonner, Department Administrator
Margaret Butler, Associate Professor
John Stowe, Professor^
Scott Teeple, Professor & Director of Bands
Faculty II
Colleen Conroy, Assistant Professor
Peter Dominguez, Professor
Lydia Berggruen, Faculty Assistant
Kari Daul, Administrative Assistant
Thomas Kasdorf, Teaching Faculty
Sofía Snow, Director
Greg Silver, Production Manager
Ryan Bertelson, Technical Director & Teaching Specialist
Bruce Gladstone, Teaching Faculty
Tom Curry, Teaching Faculty
Corey Pompey, Associate Director of Bands
Paula McCarthy Panczenko, Director Sona Pastel-Daneshgar, Curator
Mariana Farah, Associate Professor & Director of Choral Studies*
Kerry O’Neill, Shipping & Mail Associate
Lance Ketterer, Recording Engineer
David Perry, Professor
Jeff Macheel, Technical Director (Play Circle)
Sean Danner, Box Office Manager
Benjamin Singer, Associate Professor Ahna Skop, Professor Ann Smart Martin, Professor^ Aliko Songolo, Professor Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Assistant Professor Mary Trotter, Associate Professor Michael Vanden Heuvel, Professor Lee Wandel, Professor
Joe Dennis, Associate Professor Samuel Dennis, Jr., Professor Vinay Dharwadker, Professor Wei Dong, Professor
Frederic Neyrat, Associate Professor Lynn Nyhart, Professor Christa Olson, Professor Michael Peterson, Professor Jennifer Pruitt, Associate Professor Steve Ridgely, Associate Professor Douglas Rosenberg, Professor Patrick Rumble, Professor Ellen Sapega, Professor
Falina Enriquez, Assistant Professor Christine Garlough, Professor Amy Gilman, Director & Chazen Museum Victor Goldgel-Carballo, Professor Sabine Gross, Professor Dawnene Hassett, Professor Paola Hernández, Professor & Director Stephen Hilyard, Professor John Hitchcock, Professor Eric Hoyt, Professor Adam L. Kern, Professor Elizabeth Lapina, Associate Professor Nancy Rose Marshall, Professor Ruben Medina, Professor Gregg Mitman, Professor
Clare Haden, Lecturer
Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli, Wheelhouse Studios Program Director
Anna Campbell, Associate Professor Jill H. Casid, Professor
Emily Rudolph, Faculty Assistant Scot Shepley, Box Office Manager
Heather Macheel, Technical Director (Shannon Hall)
Sarah Ann Wells, Associate Professor Keith Woodward, Professor Wheelhouse Studio open-art-studio-and-classesunion.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/|AmyGuthier
Elizabeth Snodgrass, Wisconsin Union Theater
Sonya Carr, Box Office Supervisor (TE)
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Mark Hairston, Assistant Professor Angela Hause, Teaching Specialist
Aubrey Deeker, Lecturer*
Dan Lisowski, Associate Professor & Department Chair Sarah Marty, Lecturer
, Director of Audience Services
Faisal Abdu’Allah, Professor
Robert Wagner, Scenic Studio Supervisor & Teaching Faculty II
, Community Engagement Director & Wheelhouse Studio
Megan Reilly, Assistant Professor
Sara Champlin, Project Assistant Preeti Chopra, Professor Laurie Beth Clark, Professor Kelley Conway, Professor Susan C. Cook, Professor Thomas E. A. Dale, Professor Guillermina De Ferrari, Professor Theresa Delgadillo, Professor
Juan Egea, Professor
Gloria Van Dixhorn, Head Ceramicist
Tony Wise, Wheelhouse Studios Operations Director Wisconsin Union Theater theaterunion.wisc.edu/visit/wisconsin-union-|ShawnBolduc
Kate Schwartz, Artist Services Manager
Jim Greco, Distinguished Faculty Associate & Costume Studio Supervisor & Teaching Faculty III
Shannon Heibler, Artist
Robin Fisher, Academic Program Specialist
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Neil Mills, Assistant Professor
Jennifer Angus, Professor Anirban Baishya, Assistant Professor Katarzyna Beilin, Professor Ksenija Bilbija, Professor Gudrun Buhnemann, Professor
Danny Jones, Lecturer Baron Kelly, Professor
Audrey Standish, Lecturer
Kendra Ramthun, General Manager
Jessica Lanius, Lecturer
Cindi Henige, Financial Specialist II
James Stauffer, Undergraduate Advisor & Lecturer & Teaching Faculty III
Connor Wiedenbeck, Teaching Specialist & Lighting & Sound & Media Assistant*
Mercedes Alcalá-Galán, Professor Anna V. Andrzejewski, Professor
Rebecca Hayes, Lead Stagehand (TE)
Epiphany Holmstock, Administrative Assistant/Financials Assistant
Amy Rowland, Director of Audience Services
Director*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
Pictured: Pitches and Notes, the UW–Madison competitive a cappella group and 2022 International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella champions, performs Animal by Aurora at the 2022 Creative Arts Awards in the Hamel Music Center. Photo by Mats Rudels.
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