ANNUAL REPORT | 2022–23
Pictured on front cover: Attendees walk through the exhibition during a private reception for the “Sifting and Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance” exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art. Photo: Bryce Richter.. Pictured above: The UW–Madison Dance Department and Professor Chris Walker present “Moonshine,” an annual celebration of Black History Month with live music, contemporary theater, and dance performances that includes West African, Afro-Caribbean, and Hip-Hop dance forms. Photo: Mats Rudels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction................................................................................4
Artivism Student Action Program
Director’s Executive Summary
Arts Business Competition
Mission, Vision & Goals
Arts on Campus Communications
By the Numbers
Arts Recruitment Support
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Update Programs................................................................................... 14
Your UW Days Appendix.................................................................................. 46
Arts Together
Staff Listing
Creative Arts Awards
Committees
Arts Residency Programs
2022–23 Financial & In-Kind Contributors
Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Programs International Visiting Artist Program The Studio: Creative Arts Community Interdisciplinary Arts Outreach Initiative
UW—Madison Arts Community
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts | Annual Report | 2022–23 | INTRODUCTION
DIRECTOR’S EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I am delighted to present the Division of the Arts’ annual report for the 2022-23 academic year. As the director, my second year was marked by a strong focus on advocacy, growth, and collaboration. We achieved significant milestones, culminating in the development of a new strategic plan, which I am thrilled to share in part with you.
Mission and Vision: Forging Ahead Our unwavering vision, “The Arts for Everyone, Everywhere,” remains at the core of our work. This vision is embodied in our commitment to accessibility, advocacy, funding, and, most importantly, partnerships. We strive for the arts at UW–Madison to be integral to research, teaching, learning, and outreach, ensuring accessibility for all members of our university community, and making a meaningful impact locally and globally. To further clarify our mission, we developed a refined statement: The Division of the Arts advocates for, connects, and elevates the arts at UW–Madison. We fulfill this mission by supporting and promoting the objectives of academic arts departments and affiliated partners, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations, enhancing the student experience, cultivating community engagement, and advocating for inclusion, diversity, equity, and access across all artistic disciplines.
Strategic Planning Process: Guiding Our Path Our strategic planning process commenced in the spring under the guidance of Steve Bialek from the Office of Strategic Consulting. The Strategic Planning Steering Group, consisting of 16 dedicated individuals including faculty, staff, students, and community partners, convened regularly to review the Division’s mission, vision, goals, and plans for the upcoming 3-5 years. Their invaluable input played a pivotal role in aligning our strategic directions with the vision of campus leadership and academic departments. Strengthening our relationships and partnerships remains a steadfast commitment, and we are fortunate to have unwavering support from our vibrant arts community.
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Arts Advocacy
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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity , Access, and Belonging
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Arts in the Academy
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Space and Infrastructure
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Interdisciplinary Arts Leadership
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UW Arts Recruitment
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UW–Madison Arts Communication Strategy
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UW–Madison Public Art Stewardship
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Looking Forward... VISION The Arts For Everyone Everywhere A vision by which the Arts at UW–Madison are; integral to research, teaching, learning, and outreach; accessible to all at UW–Madison; and impactful both locally and globally. MISSION The Division of the Arts advocates for, connects, and elevates the arts at UW–Madison CORE VALUES Foundational Values of the Arts • Artistic expression, experience, and interpretation are critical to the human spirit and to the development of vibrant cultures. • The arts bring joy and pleasure, connect us to each other, and celebrate the best of humanity as an integral component of wellness. • The arts offer greater understanding of the world, broaden our perspectives, express and challenge points of view, and explore and address injustices, prompting us to grow, innovate, and change. • Artists, designers, and creative thinkers are essential to solving problems and advancing society. The Arts at UW • Freedom of artistic and creative expression is critical to knowledge production and to the teaching, learning, and research missions of the university. • Artistic interdisciplinarity can break down institutional barriers, advance intellectual diversity, and give opportunities to people who do not fit into the traditional modes of inquiry and practice. • The Arts are essential to making meaningful progress in inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and belonging at UW–Madison and beyond. Impact • By upholding these values, the Arts at UW–Madison positively impact people’s lives across the state, nation, and world.
Supporting the Arts through Advocacy: Amplifying Our Impact Advocacy serves as a critical pillar in our support for the arts, and the Division of the Arts leadership actively advocates for
increased funding. In this regard, we are thrilled to have received three new donorsupported gifts for arts student scholarships and awards. Notably, we established two new Creative Arts Awards, making a significant investment in student arts research and achievement. As a result, an additional five students were awarded a total of $7,000. Arts
Advocacy represents our foremost strategic priority as it underpins all our endeavors, connecting and elevating the arts while contributing to the success of our subsequent priorities. To expand opportunities for students, we further developed our student internship program, increased support for The Studio, and secured resources for students to create activism-related art through the Artivism Student Action Program, which made $15,000 available to students from all majors. Moreover, our collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA) at the annual UW–Madison Diversity Forum facilitated meaningful engagement with activism and the arts. We proudly moderated a panel discussion on “Activism and the Arts: Building Legacies in Wisconsin and Beyond,” featuring local artists, UW–Madison faculty, and staff. This ongoing collaboration will continue at each Diversity Forum, with the Division hosting panel discussions related to the annual theme.
Pictured: The above graphic depicts the new strategic plan; our mission, vision and core values that will guide the work of the Division of the Arts going forward. Graphic: Alex André.
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THE ARTS FOR EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE
Arts Access and Community Building: Fostering Inclusion and Engagement Our commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity, access, and belonging aligns seamlessly with the strategic priority of Arts Access. We strive for the arts to flourish as a community resource at UW–Madison, ensuring accessibility for diverse and underserved populations both on campus and within our local communities. In our efforts to foster community growth, we organized the highly successful Arts Forward Together: A Welcome Back Event in partnership with the Chazen Museum of Art. This annual event witnessed a remarkable 29% increase in attendance compared to the previous year. Additionally, our Arts Together event series provided an essential platform for the diverse UW–Madison arts community, facilitating the introduction of new arts
faculty, and showcasing cutting-edge arts research. Strengthening our collaborations, we partnered with the Illuminating Discovery Hub, Tandem Press, Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI), and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration to organize four Arts Together gatherings, fostering a sense of community and collaboration. To broaden access, we partnered with the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration and presenting performing arts units to offer free tickets to arts events throughout the academic year. To encourage growth and innovation across programs, we sponsored committees and working groups that facilitated interaction, provided critical planning, and offered feedback on the arts at UW. The Arts Chairs and Directors Council (ACDC), representing leadership from arts departments and presenting units campus-wide, played a vital role in our efforts, while the Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) oversaw the Integrated Arts course subject listing and the Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program.
Furthermore, the Arts Recruitment Working Group (ARWG) focused on enhancing enrollment numbers in the arts, and the Arts Communicators group fostered networking and impactful storytelling among marketing and communications staff in the arts at UW– Madison
Collaboration and Arts in the Academy: Nurturing Synergies Collaboration remains paramount to our work, and I express my deepest gratitude to the Arts Deans and the members of the Arts Chairs and Directors Council for their exceptional leadership and guidance. In addition to these internal collaborations, we forged interdisciplinary partnerships, including a series of short-term residencies with interdisciplinary artists in collaboration with the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI). These residencies showcased the
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three pillars of OMAI: academics, arts, and activism, fostering a lasting and mutually beneficial relationship. Under the strategic priority of Arts in the Academy, we envision continued growth and success in our collaborative endeavors. The annual Creative Arts Awards ceremony served as a fitting culmination to the year, and I extend my heartfelt appreciation to Bolz Center Director Sarah Marty and the Wisconsin Union Theater staff for their invaluable support in creating a memorable event. Furthermore, we began building formal relationships with Facilities Planning and Management to explore long-term infrastructures for UW-Public Art, as well as forging partnerships with the Center for Healthy Minds to examine the role of the arts in promoting well-being. Our collaboration with community partners further strengthened our advocacy for the arts within our city, county, and state. This report proudly reflects the remarkable work of dedicated communities of practice across arts administration, communication, production, and outreach. Together, we have created events and opportunities that inspire, foster a sense of belonging, and facilitate the flourishing of the arts. I express my deepest gratitude to the devoted staff members who work tirelessly behind the scenes to bring art to life. Onward,
Chris Walker Director, Division of the Arts
Pictured: Chris Walker, professor of dance in the School of Education and director of the Division of Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is pictured in a studio portrait on March 8, 2023. Photo: Althea Dotzour / UW–Madison.
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MISSION & VISION: 2022-23
Mission 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.
Vision f The arts will be accessible to every person in all parts of their life. 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. 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.
A September sunset bathes Lathrop Hall, home to the Division of the Arts, in autumnal golden light. Photo: Alex André.
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Goals Students will experience the arts in diverse aspects of their education and will embrace the importance of the arts in their lives. Faculty and staff will see the Arts Division as a partner and a resource in furthering their teaching, research, and outreach in the arts. Campus leaders will steadfastly engage leaders in the arts in decision making and initiatives that advance the mission of the university. 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. The Arts Division will function as catalyst and convener with and for the academic arts programs in creating interdisciplinary programming. The Arts Division will be a robust and essential presence in the Madison community and a strong force in creating mutually beneficial community partnerships. For more information, please visit artsdivision.wisc.edu/mission
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BY THE NUMBERS The UW–Madison Division of the Arts provides a number of resources to its campus and community partners. We are experiencing consistent growth as we work towards our goal of fostering a vibrant, cohesive art community on campus and beyond. The following facts and figures highlight achievements during the 2022-23 academic year.
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Guest Artists
8,714 E-news Subscribers Media 8,093 Social Followers 85,727 YouTube Views
Event Attendance for the Year
11,600
Events included:
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Campus & Community Partnerships
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Faculty & Staff Affiliates
$6,500 Sponsorship Dollars Distributed
• Arts Together • Arts Business Competition • Arts Recruitment • Jay Adana and Zeniba Now Residency • Jasmine Mans Residency
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Media Mentions
• Machiko Ito Residency • Porsha Olayiwola Residency • Eve L. Ewing Residency • Creative Arts Awards
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BEHIND THE NUMBERS
Pictured top-left to bottom-right: OMAI Arts Education Program Specialist Denzel Taylor leads a class of The Studio residents through a dance exercise, November 2022. Photo: Alex André. A resident of the Studio performs at the multimedia event, “Unrelenting,” in The Studio Blackbox Theater, a culmination of the Spring Seminar 2023. Photo: Alex André. Professional hip-hop dancer, Papa Kobina, unveils UW students’ “super powers” through a hip-hop dance workshop following “Moonshine” in February 2023. Photo: Mats Rudels. Kohler Arts Library Director Anna Simon shares a unique art book, created by new UW–Madison faculty, Julie Chen. Photo: Alex André.
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INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND ACCESS UPDATE The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Committee was formed to turn the Arts Division’s commitment to embrace and serve all members of our diverse arts community into meaningful action. artsdivision.wisc.edu/committees/idea/
Why IDEA? 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.
Arts and IDEA 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 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.
IDEA at Division of the Arts 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.
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IDEA Committee The IDEA Committee opened the second year of funding for the Artivism Student Action Program (ASAP) in November (page 34), supporting 12 student-led projects totaling $12,200. Remaining funds will carry over to the 2023-24 ASAP cycle. In addition, the Division sponsored six student events and programs that support campus IDEA efforts, totaling $5,000, including: The JVN Project: JVN Day 10th Anniversary (August 26); Trailblazer Talk: Angelica Ross (February 28); Pitches and Notes at the National A Cappella Convention (March 23); Black History Month Keynote: A Conversation with Tyler James Williams (March 22); and An Afternoon with Jos Charles: Trans Poetics and the Power of Time (April 23). The IDEA Committee continued a selfassessment utilizing the Badger Anti- Racist Coalition (BARC)’s pilot rubric, facilitating conversation around the questions: how are we perpetuating racism and oppression, and what can we do to change that? The
outcome of this self-evaluation will inform the action plan in development for the 2023-24 academic year. A new hiring process implemented Divisionwide removed direct and indirect barriers to improve the diversity of candidates in the hiring pool. Job listings clearly articulate the Art Division’s values around inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. An extensive list of resources for interested candidates was added to the Art Division’s Employment webpage, and leadership recorded video invitations to apply. Job listings are posted for longer and are shared widely through paid advertisements, social media, email outreach,
and personal and professional networks. Search committees take into account volunteer and lived experience as well as professional experience and earned degrees in assessing candidate qualifications. Minimum degree requirements are set to the lowest reasonable level for the position. The interview process was redesigned to reduce unnecessary burden and stress on applicants and to be more welcoming. To learn more about the concrete steps we are taking and for updates on our progress, please visit our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Committee webpage, and read the Year 3 update.
Pictured: Performers at “Formless,” an artivism event featuring a variety of performances. “Formless,” is a 2023 Artivism Student Action Program award recipient. Photo: Audrey O’Neill.
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ARTS TOGETHER For the second year, the Division of the Arts celebrated and strengthened our community with the Arts Together event series. In September 2022, we again partnered with the Chazen Museum of Art to welcome arts faculty, staff, and students back to campus and celebrate new arts faculty, with another Arts Forward Together event. Bucky Badger himself joined in! We also collaborated with Cullen Houser, MFA student in the Art Department, and Maria Schirmer Devitt, lead artist with Dane Arts Mural Arts, to make art together. The two hosted a mobile, pop-up screen printing station. We moved indoors where we heard from campus
The event series grew in scope in several respects. Arts Forward Together was followed with four other Arts Together events in October, December, February, and April, hosted respectively by the Illuminating Discovery Hub and Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID), Tandem Press, Dance Department, and Bolz Center for Arts Administration. We established a whole new slate of campus and community partnerships. Events extended beyond providing a space for networking – we engaged in art-making activities, took exhibition and public art tours, enjoyed live jazz music, and heard first-hand from guest artists and student entrepreneurs.
leadership, including Chazen Museum of Art Director Amy Gilman, Provost John Karl Scholz, Division of the Arts Director Chris Walker, and Public History Project Director Kacie Lucchini Butcher. More than 90 attendees enjoyed access to the exhibition, Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance, along with a musical performance by Mr. Chair, a contemporary fusion ensemble whose members include Mark Hetzler, Professor of Trombone.
Individual faculty and staff members from across campus were repeat attendees throughout the year. With more intentional programming, our arts community continues to grow.
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Pictured above: Campus and community partners making connections and building the arts community at Arts Together Events. Photos: Mats Rudels.
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Pictured top-left to bottom-right: Artist Sharon Tang shares her mural in the Discovery Building, part of Science to Street Art, during the October 2022 Arts Together event held in partnership with Illuminating Discovery. Photo: Alex André. Director Chris Walker poses alongside Sandra Adell (Department of African American Studies), Interdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Porsha Olayiwola, Sofía Snow (OMAI), and Cydney Edwards (OMAI) during the February 2023 Arts Together gathering. Photo: Mats Rudels. Division of the Arts colleagues Heather Owens, Kate Lochner, Kate Hewson, and Rachel Niles pose at Arts Together in December 2022 hosted by Tandem Press. Photo: Mats Rudels. Chris Walker addresses attendees of Arts Forward Together, held at the Chazen Museum of Art. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS The Division of the Arts provides research support to faculty, staff, and students in the arts through the Creative Arts Awards. Each year, the Division celebrates artistic achievements, recognizes service in the arts, and supports creative projects and research. Awards are split into three categories: Faculty Arts Research, Staff and Faculty Arts Outreach, and Student Arts Research and Achievement. go.wisc.edu/ArtsAwards
In service of the arts community, the Division manages the Creative Arts Award funds and organizes the selection and distribution process for those awards. Two new awards for undergraduate and graduate students were created this year, a direct result of our advocacy efforts to support students in the arts: the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Award and the Joan Spero and C. Michael Spero Graduate Student Award. Thank you to this year’s selection and review committee: Wei Dong (Design Studies), Daniel Grabois (Music), Florence Hsia (History), Baron Kelly (Theatre and Drama), Beth Nguyen (Creative Writing), Darcy Padilla (Art), and Marlene Skog (Dance). The Creative Arts Awards ceremony is held each spring, bringing the arts community together, and inspiring arts research and achievement by example. For the first time, the event was held in Wisconsin Union Theater’s Shannon Hall. Performances by nine student groups showcased the diversity of the arts, ranging from spoken word to classical music; from musical theater to jazz music and modern dance. We also recognized the service of longtime administrators stepping down, including: Susan C. Cook, Director of Mead Witter School of Music; Susan Zaeske, Associate Dean for Arts & Humanities, College of Letters & Science; and honored late Chancellor Rebecca Blank.
Pictured: The Creative Arts Award title slide. Design by Alex André and Lily Cain. An excerpt from “The Burning Barn,” performance at the Creative Arts Awards, performed by Heavyn DyerJones (pianist), Janae Adams, Cleo Decker, and Cindy Stefanek. Photo: Mats Rudels
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Creative Arts Award Douglas Rosenberg, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Art, Art Department
Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts Finn Enke, Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and Department of History Mimmi Fulmer, Professor, Mead Witter School of Music Helen Lee, Associate Professor, Art Department
Joyce J. and Gerald A. Bartell Award in the Arts Spatula&Barcode: Laurie Beth Clark, Professor, Art Department, and Michael Peterson, Professor, Art Department
Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award
Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts
Sophie Loubere, MFA student, Art
Trace Johnson, DMA student, Music Performance
Skyler Simpson, MFA student, Art
Ruth Llana, Ph.D. candidate, Spanish with a Minor in Transdisciplinary Study of Visual Culture Matthew Ludak, MFA student, Art Orion Risk, Ph.D. student, Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
Joan Spero and C. Michael Spero Graduate Student Award
Praveen Maripelly, MFA student, Art
Anamika Singh, MFA student, Art
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Arts Award Maile Evelyn Llanos, undergraduate, Art Maia Therese Rauh, undergraduate, Textiles and Fashion Design with a Certificate in Studio Art Katie Ryann, undergraduate, Dance and Environmental Studies
James Carl Osorio, MM student, Piano and MA student, Historical Musicology Emily Wang, undergraduate, Art History and Economics
Graduate Student Creative Arts Award
Michael Velliquette, Assistant Professor of Art Foundations, Art Department
Sahada Jewel Buckley, MM student, Violin Performance & Trace Johnson, DMA student, Music Performance
David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts
Esther Jihye Cho, MFA student, Design Studies
Sachie Ueshima, DMA student, Music Performance
Ben Ferris, MM student, Music Performance
Digital Program | Live Stream Photos | Video Playlist Pictured: Elena Niboro Paul (vocalist) and Michael Wu (pianist) perform “O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me,” from Semele. Photos by Mats Rudels.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2022-23 Funded through the Office of the Provost, the Division of the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program (IARP) brings innovative, world-class artists to campus. Since 1999, the program has hosted 51 residencies involving 55 artists-in-residence and more than 140 guest artists from 20 different countries, engaging over 50 university units and over 40 community organizations. go.wisc.edu/ArtsResidency
Partnership Overall Impact:
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In-person and virtual
Attendence
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The Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program for the 2022–2023 academic year engaged a partnership between the Division of the Arts and the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI), home to the First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community, presenting a series of four short-term interdisciplinary arts residencies with five artists-in-residence: Jay Adana and Zeniba Now (October 6–16, 2022), Jasmine Mans (October 31–November 5, 2022), Porsha Olayiwola (February 24– March 4, 2023), and Eve L. Ewing (March 30–April 1, 2023). Each visiting artist in the series represented the three pillars of OMAI: academics, arts, and activism.
The short-term interdisciplinary arts residencies hosted highly-esteemed and established artists, engaged in educational experiences through curricular and cocurricular activities, and built bridges between arts departments and multicultural campus groups at UW–Madison and with Madison community organizations. We are thrilled that this year-long pilot series opened the door to developing two new arts residency programs on campus through OMAI and the Arts Division, respectively.
Photos 2022 | Photos 2023
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Pictured top going clockwise: Eve Ewing at the Line Breaks Hip-Hop Festival, April 2023. Photo: Mats Rudels. Jasmine Mans performs at Just Bust! in November 2022. Photo: Mats Rudels. Performance of “The Loophole” during Passing the Mic 2022. Photo: Mats Rudels. Porsha Olayiwola performs at Just Bust! in March 2023. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM Jay Adana and Zeniba Now go.wisc.edu/AdanaNow From October 6–16, 2022, we welcomed playwrights, musicians, and composers Jay Adana and Zeniba Now to UW–Madison. Jay Adana is a loud, shy, mixed Korean girl making musical stories. She’s known for The Loophole, The Jordan & Avery Show, The Woodsman, Notes From Now, Fingerpaintings, LeFay, and The Last Tiger in Haiti and is currently developing The Jordan & Avery Show as a musical movie. Zeniba Now is a musical storyteller and artscientist from Los Angeles. She has a degree in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee with an emphasis in Directing. As a writer of musicals, her work includes Beloved, Human Resources, The Loophole, and her one-woman specials IQuit: Millennial Retirement Gala and Sincerely, Z.
the Mic Festival the following Saturday, carrying the thread of community back to UW–Madison. Adana and Now also performed at the first Just Bust! Open Mic and Workshop events of the academic year. Along with guest lectures, workshops, and rehearsals, the artists cast five students from the Dance Department and First Wave in a performance of The Loophole, debuting at the sold out 16th Annual Passing the Mic Festival. Such high attendance and engagement set the tone for the remainder of the short-term residencies.
The residency started with a community welcome event, held off-campus in partnership with local Hip-Hop artist Rob Dz at Café CODA. A significant number of the individuals there also attended the Passing
Pictured: Jay Adana (left) and Zeniba Now (right) perform at the October Just Bust! Open Mic. Photo: Mats Rudels.
Guest Artists: • Kelsey Baehrens • Tyler Fauntleroy • Le’Asha Julius • Jess McLeod • Jason Simon • Christian Thompson • Alessandra Valea • Andrea Yohe • Blu Rhythm Collective
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“I felt that so much of my conceptualizing and visioning was manifest. It’s one thing to dream it, it’s another thing completely to have the resources to prove it.” - Zeniba Now, Artist-in-Residence
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Activity Attendance
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UW Students Engaged
Events
Pictured top going clockwise: Guest artists and student performers rehearse choreography for “The Loophole” in the Play Circle, Memorial Union. Photo: Mats Rudels. The cast and crew of “The Loophole” along with residency staff smile after a sold-out performance. Photo: Mats Rudels. Zeniba Now sings a solo during “The Loophole.” Photo: Mats Rudels.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM Jasmine Mans go.wisc.edu/Mans
Guest Artists: • Nate Marshall (faculty participant) • Clint Smith
From October 31–November 5, 2022, we welcomed Black poet, performance artist, and UW–Madison alumna Jasmine Mans to campus. Mans’ poetry book, BLACK GIRL, CALL HOME (Penguin Random House), has been named one of Oprah’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books and a TIME Magazine Must Read. Mans herself was named as Essence’s #1 Contemporary Black Poet to Know. Mans most recently collaborated with the Brooklyn Ballet on an original performance piece, Unnatural Surrounding, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Prior to this, she opened for Nikole Hannah-Jones at the launch of The 1619 Project at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and co-hosted The Kennedy Center’s Arts Across America digital series alongside renowned poet Jason Reynolds. Mans also participated in Brave New Voices, an 8-episode poetry documentary on HBO. Mans is from Newark, New Jersey.
Pictured: Jasmine Mans following her Just Bust! Open Mic performance. Photo: Mats Rudels.
Mans’ residency included presentations and workshops in partnership with various departments on campus and a panel discussion with the 2022–23 Go Big Read author Clint Smith and Nate Marshall, Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing. Mans, who holds a B.A. in African American Studies from UW–Madison, also cast and directed four students in a choreopoem, with three additional students lending their voices to the production. The choreopoem debuted as a headlining performance at OMAI’s Just Bust! Open Mic. She also hosted the Just Bust! Spoken Word Workshop in partnership with the Urban Community Arts Network (UCAN) at the Level Up! Conference, featuring some of the music industry’s major players leading workshops to equip independent musicians for success in the music business. The second residency in the series was enriched by these new collaborations between campus and community partners.
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Pictured left-to-right: Jasmine Mans poses with guest artists Nate Marshall, Clint Smith, and student Dawry Ruiz. Photo: Alex André. Jasmine Mans leads workshops with students during her residency. Photo: Alex André and Mats Rudels.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM Porsha Olayiwola go.wisc.edu/Olayiwola We welcomed writer, performer, and playwright Porsha Olayiwola to Madison from Februrary 24–March 4, 2023. Porsha Olayiwola is a native of Chicago who writes, lives, and loves in Boston. Olayiwola uses Afrofuturism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the founder of the Roxbury Poetry Festival. Olayiwola earned her MFA in poetry from Emerson College and is the author of i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets and the current Poet Laureate for the city of Boston.
Guest Artists: • Vessna Scheff • Crystal Valentine
Olayiwola performed in Moonshine, an annual Dance Department celebration of Black History Month with live music, contemporary theater, and dance performances that includes West African, Afro-Caribbean, and Hip-Hop dance forms. She also appeared on Badger Talks Live to discuss the impact of interdisciplinary arts as part of the month-
Pictured: Porsha Olayiwola performs at Moonshine, February 2023. Photo by Mats Rudels.
long series featuring the Division of the Arts. Thanks to this collaboration with Badger Talks, the live-streamed event has reached over 6,500 views from people across the state of Wisconsin, reflecting the tradition of the Wisconsin Idea. Both these events were part of the programming for Black Arts: Multiple Mediums, One Story, UW–Madison’s Black History Month. As the feature at Just Bust! Open Mic, Olayiwola performed in front of the largest audience in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Auditorium since 2020. Additional engagement opportunities with Olayiwola included poetry workshops, course visits across a wide variety of disciplines, and a sold out reading and book signing at A Room of One’s Own. The new partnership with a local, independent, feminist bookstore allowed for two highly regarded poet performers to reach their established community. This partnership continued with the next residency.
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Pictured top-to-bottom, left-to-right: Gust artist Crystal Valentine and Porsha Olayiwola read from their poetry collections at A Room of One’s Own. Photos: Alex André. Porsha Olayiwola leads the Just Bust! Workshop with students and the public at Madison Public Library. Photo: Mats Rudels. Featured headliners Vessna Scheff and Porsha Olayiwola perform at the March 2023 Just Bust! Open Mic. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS RESIDENCY PROGRAM Eve L. Ewing go.wisc.edu/Ewing From March 30–April 1, 2023, we welcomed writer, sociologist, poet, and professor Dr. Eve L. Ewing to UW–Madison. Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side, and a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She has written several projects for Marvel Comics, most notably the Ironheart series, and is currently at the helm of Black Panther.
Guest Artists: • Nate Marshall (faculty participant) • Amanda Torres • Paul Tran (faculty participant) • Jamila Woods, accompanied by Justin Canavan
As the last residency in the series, momentum and awareness had been building for this artist, in particular, to visit campus. This was also the shortest residency in the series. The number of people impacted and in attendance is particularly impressive for the short amount of time that Ewing was in Madison. We returned to A Room of One’s Own for a public conversation with poet and UW–Madison faculty Paul Tran. The culmination of the series coincided with OMAI’s highest-anticipated program, the Line Breaks Hip Hop Theater Festival. Ewing, along with four guest artists, headlined the sixteenth annual event.
Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. Currently she is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis) education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published by One World.
Pictured left-to-right: Dr. Eve L. Ewing, headshot. Photo: Jaclyn Rivas. Gust artist Nate Marshall performs a reading on stage during the Line Breaks Festival. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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Pictured left-to-right: Dr. Eve L. Ewing addresses the audience at A Room of One’s Own. Photo: Alex André. Guest artists Paul Tran, Amanda Torres, and Dr. Eve L. Ewing pose following an artist talk at A Room of One’s Own. Photo: Alex André. Guest artists Jamila Woods and Justin Canavan perform during Line Breaks Festival. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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INTERNATIONAL VISITING ARTIST PROGRAM MACHIKO ITO The International Visiting Artist Program (IVAP) brings international artists to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus for short-term residences. Launched in the fall of 2019, the program is a partnership between the Division of the Arts and the International Division. Through IVAP, visiting artists bring their expertise into existing campus arts programs, expand students’ horizons, and facilitate opportunities for future collaborations and careers abroad. go.wisc.edu/IVAP
From November 29–December 3, 2022, we welcomed glass weaver and sculptural artist Machiko Ito to UW–Madison. Ito constructs sculptural artworks with crochet, woven, and bundled glass fiber. Formerly a knit-wear designer, Ito’s technique was born from the exploration of weaving glass fibers. Focused on the Buddhist concept called “En,” which represents a relationship from first meeting to farewell and the bond that develops therein, Ito is fascinated by the silky texture and luster produced when glass fibers are heated in a kiln and melted together. Ito completed the Glass Certification Studies Program and the Advanced Research Studies Program at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Toyama, Japan, and has been featured
in exhibitions internationally, including Glasmuseum in Frauenau, Germany. Ito has been an artist-in-residence at The Studio at the Corning Museum of Glass and at the Southern Illinois University glass program. Ito was born in Okinawa and lives and works in Toyama, Japan. Ito’s residency, proposed and led by Helen Lee, Associate Professor of Glass (Art Department) and The Studio Faculty Director (Division of the Arts), included a robust week of curricular engagements. Ito visited classrooms and studios with both undergraduate and graduate students in two departments. She shared insight into her process of crocheting industrial fiberglass threads into fused glass sculptures. go.wisc.edu/Ito Photos | UW–Madison Photo Story Video
Pictured: Machiko Ito discusses her practice during a video interview. Photo: Aaron Granat.
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Ito’s public demonstration in the Glass Lab drew in nearly 60 visitors from the public, maxing out the capacity of the shop. Most memorable from this engagement was a small cohort of Japanese artists and scholars at UW in attendance, including a Madisonbased Japanese knitwear designer. The short residency with this visionary international artist made an impact across three different departments and the greater Madison community.
“This uniquely interdisciplinary practice was a stellar example for students in thinking through how to expand upon material skill sets, process experimentation, and the hybrid spaces of dialog created therein.” - Associate Professor Helen Lee
Pictured top-to-bottom: Machiko Ito demonstrates her glass weaving technique in the UW–Madison Glass Lab. Photo: Mats Rudels. Machiko Ito’s hands at work with the fiberglass bundles and a crochet needle. Photo: Mats Rudels. Detailed image of one of Machiko Ito’s creations. Photo: Alex André.
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THE STUDIO: CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY 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. thestudiouw.arts.wisc.edu
The Studio allows undergraduates from all majors to weave arts practices into their daily lives. A total of 240 students ranked The Studio as their first choice Learning Community. The Studio accommodated 69 student residents, a 7.8% increase over the previous year. This is a trend that has continued uninterrupted since 2016. Additionally, the Learning Community survey centrally administered by University Housing showed that The Studio is performing above average in almost all categories compared to other Learning Communities, including overall satisfaction, likelihood of recommending to others, and whether the learning community has helped students make friends. The majority of The Studio’s programming is interdisciplinary in nature, and inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA) is a critical
focus. We regularly partner with campus units, community organizations, and individual community artists. This year, The Studio’s budget significantly grew by 69% thanks to the generosity of the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement. This increase made up for rising costs of living, especially with regards to food, as well as expanding programming that serves IDEA values, including: •
Day trip to Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, including tickets to see a world premiere performance by Hubbard Street Dance and a private tour of the exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean 1900s to Today
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Poetry workshop with Jos Charles, followed by a panel discussion with Jos Charles and Paul Tran
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Rental of private theater on opening night of Wakanda Forever
With increased funding, The Studio also launched a new structure for student employment. We transitioned from employing two Learning Community Program Assistants to hiring two Student Program Leads and four Peer Mentors. Peer Mentors provided artistic mentorship to our residents on this campus and beyond. They met with The Studio residents individually and organized events specifically tailored to residents’ interests and needs. The programming consisted of workshops, field trips, and informal get-togethers.
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Getting access to The Studio again takes us back to where our band began. The Studio is an inspiring creative space that allows us to record music in an ideal setting. It’s brought our band, now called East of Vilas, to our next level. It’s also been fun to meet other groups in the artist community! - Anonymous Studio Alum
In addition to providing access to art and performance spaces, cultural events, and seminar courses, we embraced new initiatives centered around strengthening community. The Studio responded to student demand by offering more programming that focused purely on relaxation and fun. We also piloted a project that gave select The Studio alumni access to our Creative Spaces. It was a resounding success, with alumni reporting positive impacts on their creative practice and constructive contact with current residents.
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Guest Artist Seminar Workshops
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2022 Photos | 2023 Photos Videos
Pictured: The Studio residents perform during Showcase events held throughout the year. Photos: Mats Rudels.
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“Artists require an environment in which to create, and an environment for creations to be witnessed and experienced. The opportunity to spend time on my craft provided an education which cannot be obtained by any other method.” - Anonymous The Studio Alum
Pictured top-to-bottom, left-to-right: The Studio residents hang out outside the Black Box Studio on a December Showcase event. Photo: Alex André. The Studio Seminar performance of “UNRELENTING,” in Spring 2023. Photo: Alex André. Students perform at The Studio Showcases, demonstrating a wide variety of talents. Photos: Mats Rudels, and Alex André.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS OUTREACH INITIATIVE The Interdisciplinary Arts Outreach Initiative is a state-wide initiative, funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant in 2022. The project will bring impactful artists to underserved regions, forging new connections, and developing a model for arts engagement that will continue to expand and strengthen access to the arts as a long-term investment in our citizenry. The arts-based collaborative programming and community outreach will take place in various parts of the state with UW System campuses, K-12 schools, cultural venues, community-based arts spaces, and in other public places.
During the first year of this program, the Division of the Arts focused on developing relationships with potential collaborators, including: the Continuing Studies Department, Create Wisconsin, the Overture Center for the Arts, and UW Extension. We invested in researching and creating an asset map and toolkit for statewide arts involvement. We also developed assessment tools for the program.
In March 2023, we partnered with the Overture Center to provide Madison-area youth percussionists with complimentary tickets to see Grammy award-winning musician Juan de Marcos González and the Afro-Cuban All Stars perform in Overture Hall. We look forward to the second year, when we plan to bring former Interdisciplinary Artist-inResidence Laura Anderson Barbata to central Wisconsin and to develop a year-long event called “Swing into Spring” to connect dance studios and community spaces across the state.
Pictured: Juan de Marcos giving and lecture and performance in Madison, September 29, 2015. Photo: Aliza Rand.
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ARTIVISM STUDENT ACTION PROGRAM 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 financial assistance through a lowbarrier application and reporting process. go.wisc.edu/UWASAP
To improve campus-wide visibility, the Arts Division transitioned the application process for ASAP to the Wisconsin Scholarship Hub (WiSH), the central platform at UW–Madison for campus scholarship opportunities managed by the Office of Student Financial Aid. We received a total of 23 eligible applications, which is a 155.5% increase over the previous year. The Arts Division was thrilled to contribute money to a variety of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary arts projects this year. With the help of ASAP, space was created for community building and community support through an array of arts practices, including: textiles, literary criticism, film, visual art,
Pictured: Diya Abbas, provided by Diya Abbas.
creative writing, and the performing arts (dance, spoken word, and music). As a relatively new program, we encountered some challenges in the second year. UWMadison students who receive financial aid packages experience complications when receiving funding. Arts Division staff will continue to address bureaucratic barriers as it relates to funding distribution, but this remains an ongoing pain point. We also navigated staff transitions, with an interim coordinator stepping in to run the program for several months.
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Fall 2022
$8,000 8
Awarded
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Please join the Division of the Arts in congratulating the 2022-2023 ASAP award recipients: Bordando Memorias (Embroidering Memories) | Maria Amalia
Documentary Short: Remembering Ike | Kyla Pollard
Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, fall 2022 edition | Madison Journal of Literary Criticism (submitted by Ria Dhingra)
Teaching the Trans and Non-Binary Voice: Workshop for Students and Educators with Liz Jackson Hearns | Music Teachers National Association – UW– Madison Collegiate Chapter (submitted by James Carl Osorio)
Success in Reentry: A Documentary Film | Mabel Malhotra Chai Stories 2.0 | Praveen Maripelly The Long Leaving feature film | Saoirse Bryn
Networking through the Arts Mixer | Gamma Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha (submitted by Terjuan Short) Formless: An Artivism Concert | Social Justice Hub and Wisconsin Union Directorate Performing Arts Committee (submitted by Madelyn Vilker) Let It Burn | Diya Abbas Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, spring 2023 edition | Madison Journal of Literary Criticism (submitted by Ria Dhingra) The Issue 002 | The Issue (submitted by Robyn George)
Fall Announcement Spring Announcement
Pictured: A Bordando Memorias (Embroidering Memories) event. Photo provided by Maria Wood.
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ARTS BUSINESS COMPETITION 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. go.wisc.edu/ArtsBusinessCompetition
The 2023 Arts Business Competition was held on April 26 at the Discovery Building. This year, the judging panel consisted of: Adriana Barrios, University Relations Director for Santa Reparata International School of Art ; Anna January, Director of Individual & Legacy Giving at PBS Wisconsin; and Lance Owens, Founder and Director of ArtWorking. All projects funded in 2023 enable or foster access in some way, shape, or form. They also embody the Wisconsin Idea by supporting the arts communities in Madison and Dane County as well as Fairhope, Alabama. The Arts Business Competition is presented by the Division of the Arts in partnership with the Bolz Center for Arts Administration. Funding for the Arts Business Competition prizes provided by the Division of the Arts.
Pictured: 2023 Arts Business Competition finalists pose with the judges and organizers in the Discovery Building. Photo by Mats Rudels.
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1st Prize - $2,000
The Big Gay Market | Oliver DiPietro, MA student, Gender & Women’s Studies with a Certificate in Leadership and Ashley Shaw Adams, freelance artist The Big Gay Market, an organization that focuses on hosting accessible and inclusive LGBTQ+ friendly markets in the Madison area, organizes quarterly markets that feature LGBTQ+ makers and allies in a safe, accessible, and comfortable space for everyone.
2nd Prize - $1,000 Dane County Artist Directory | Augusta Brulla, MA student, Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership The Dane County Artist Directory is a user-friendly comprehensive online directory of Dane County’s visual artists, which will break down barriers to connection by providing an easy and affordable way to connect with local visual artists.
3rd Prize - $500 Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival | Sahada Buckley, Master of Music student, Violin Performance and Trace Johnson, Doctoral of Musical Arts student, Cello Performance The Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival is a professional chamber music series in Fairhope, Alabama that will inspire community involvement in contemporary and classical chamber music at every socioeconomic level by making all festival performances free of charge.
The Arts Business Competition also granted Emerging Artist Awards to undergraduate-led projects that received high scores from the judging panel:
Emerging Artist Awards - $250 CraftingGreen | Isabella Heller de Messer, undergraduate, International Business and Marketing with certificate in Art CraftingGreen is an in-person ceramic workshop series for refugee and immigrant students in Milwaukee and Madison that explores creativity through the expression of identity, experiences, and culture. OhlyProps | Jack Ohly, undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering and Communication Arts: Radio-Television-Film OhlyProps turns one student’s hobby of creating replica film props into a for-hire prop shop, based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Pictured: Finalists representing the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival performed a song during the Arts Business Competition finals presentation in April 2023. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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ARTS COMMUNICATIONS Arts on Campus is an ongoing, multi-platform 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
During the 2022-23 academic year, the Division of the Arts prioritized the growth of a flourishing, vibrant arts community by utilizing one of its greatest strengths: content creation. The Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC) team took a close look at their social media strategy. Hiring a Social Media Specialist as the school year began, the Arts Division threw their weight into the vitality of their social platforms. With a team of videographers, photographers, and editors on hand, the Arts Division partnered with numerous campus units to create dynamic content in order to support and promote opportunities, and boost engagement and attendance at arts events across campus and beyond. Utilizing key features like Instagram’s Collab Post function also increased reach and engagement. Notably, the Arts Division created visually-rich videos of events, exhibitions, and happenings on campus. The shift toward content creation on social media resulted in an increase of followers by 16.9% on Instagram and 17.5% on Facebook.
E-communications: 8,714 subscribers : 8,093 followers : 85,727 views
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.
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8,714 25
E-news Subscribers
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Website Page Visits
Direct Traffic Aquisition
New Subscribers
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Social Media Partnerships Cross-promotional partnerships opened the doors to even more opportunities as the Arts Division seeks to lift up the UW–Madison arts community, make arts more accessible, and realize its vision of the Arts for Everyone, Everywhere. Throughout the academic year, the Arts Division fulfilled cross-promotional engagements with 50 partners and contracted advertising with 14 media outlets. These efforts further build our community, increase the visibility of the arts on campus, and establish the Arts Division as reliable, invested, and authentic collaborators. In addition to traditional cross-partnership promotion, the Division of the Arts collaborated in making content with campus partners. This included social posts, photography, and even video production, developed with partners with the intent to be shared on multiple platforms.
This collaborative partnership presented a unique approach for the Division of the Arts to curate content that not only served our partners’ interests but also proved highly advantageous for us. This strategic initiative not only increased audiences’ engagement but also cultivated a stronger affinity between us and the broader UW arts community.
Pictured: Screen grabs from some of our most successful partnership posts on Instagram. Photos provided by Jessamine Burch.
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Mycological Menagerie
Anna Heinen - Student Profile
LOVE Wall - Micheal Owen
Hand Made in America: Contemporary Custom Footwear
Pictured: Above are links to four video projects the Intergrated Marketing Communications team created with partners on campus and beyond. Clockwise from the top; “The Mycological Menagerie,” partnership with Illuminating Discovery, highlighting Art Business Competition award winners; Ceramics major, Anna Heinen, partnership with the Art Department; The LOVE wall artist, Michael Owen; and “Hand Made in America: Contemporary Custom Footwear,” partnership with the Center for Design and Material Culture. Content created by Aaron Granat, Jessamine Burch, and Alex André.
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Brand Redesign The Division of the Arts brand was last updated prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and was due for a refresh. IMC’s goal was to make design across programs more cohesive–a branded house–as well as align the Arts Division more with the UW–Madison brand and visual identity, while pushing the boundaries and limits. The evolving brand represented here was created after an extensive process of development, design, and discussion. It uses elements of organic, asymmetric shapes, primary colors, and hand-drawn line elements.
These shapes, colors, and lines are intended to feel elemental, representing the building blocks of all art forms. The style reflects the UW–Madison tonal words–passionate, approachable, unconventional, catalytic, purposeful, tenacious, and grounded–through an artistic lense. Images will be updated periodically, allowing us to showcase a rotation of featured art forms and students, better representing the rich diversity of people and talents at UW–Madison. In the wake of AI-generated images, our designs allude to the hands that created
Pictured: The 2023 Arts at UW banner, the header for emails, websites, and social media profiles. Design by Alex André.
them, even if a mouse or trackpad was involved. Much of the Creative Arts Award designs were, in fact, drawn on tablets by hand. Our hope is that the brand redesign feels accessible, exciting, and engaging, and is able to adapt to different formats and platforms. In turn, awareness of the many Division of the Arts programs will increase and help our audience understand the connection between these programs and the Arts Division, expanding reach and influence.
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2023 ARTS BUSINESS COMPETITION
WIN UP TO
$2,000!
“SHARK TANK” FOR THE ARTS! All majors encouraged to apply!
Deadline for submissions: Monday, March 6, 2023 at 5 p.m. CST The UW–Madison Arts Business Competition is a campus-wide competition to encourage innovative thinking in the arts. Entrants will develop and submit a thorough proposal for an arts event, exhibition, performance, commercial venture, or other artistic project. Finalists will present proposals to a panel of judges on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 3 p.m. CST. *Funding for the 2023 Arts Business Competition is provided by the Brittingham Wisconsin Trust
For more info go to: go.wisc.edu/artsbusinesscompetition
Pictured: Screen grabs from various Instagram Posts, Stories, and Reels as well as new flyers and Gallery Guide. Content created by Alex André, Jessamine Burch, and Lily Cain.
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ARTS RECRUITMENT SUPPORT 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 Arts Division staff, and to inform recruitment support activities. Strategic plans for arts recruitment are in development with arts leadership for the School of Education (spring 2023), Design Studies and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration (summer 2023), and the College of Letters & Science (fall 2023).
In September 2022, the Division of the Arts hired Liz Root as the Arts Recruitment Coordinator in partnership with the Office of Admissions and Recruitment (OAR). In addition to chairing the Arts Recruitment Working Group (page 47), Root met with each department individually to start building relationships and to learn about challenges, opportunities, and needs for each of the arts areas. These discussions informed four strategic priorities to guide arts recruiting strategy for UW–Madison.
Strategic Priorities: f Develop a unified recruitment plan for the arts at UW– Madison that outlines the process, timeline, and ownership for arts recruitment practices f Build and maintain relationships with organizations who support college-ready high school students f Develop an arts recruitment communication strategy for both internal and external communication f Connect with Pre-College arts communities to build new pipelines and create strong pathways for students to engage in the arts at UW–Madison.
Pictured: New “Arts For Everyone, Everywhere,” notebooks were ordered to meet strong demand and prospective and incoming student tabling events. Photo by Alex André.
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On Campus Events The Division of the Arts was represented at Your UW Days for admitted students, Celebration of Admitted Multicultural Student events, music and dance audition days, Mini Music Clinics, and participated in SOAR during summer 2023. At our resource table, we continue advocating for the arts by sharing information about how prospective and incoming students can make the arts part of their experience at UW–Madison, enriching their time on campus. For non-arts majors, these sessions were an opportunity to explore arts courses, arts certificates, and double major options, as well as registered student organizations networks.
Travel & Virtual Engagement Many of the arts departments are unable to use their resources for recruitment travel to high schools.. The Arts Recruitment Coordinator acts as a resource to connect with prospective students on their behalf. For the first time, recruitment event programming shifted to include an arts recruitment presentation alongside the standard admissions presentation. Seven schools were visited in-person, in addition to the Wisconsin State Speech Festival, hosted through the Wisconsin Interscholastic Speech and Dramatic Arts Association (WISDAA), and one virtual visit. Six of the schools visited were arts-focused high schools. New and lasting relationships were established, and engagement with these schools will continue into the future.
Pictured top-to-bottom: Incoming students take part in board games, bracelet making and other social activities during a Student Orientation, Advising and Registration (SOAR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Photo: Bryce Richter. An incoming student gets assistance from an advisor during an advising session. Photo: Bryce Richter.
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STAFF LISTING (AS OF JUNE 30, 2023)
Administration Chris Walker, Director* Kate Hewson, Associate Director Rachel Niles, Administrative and HR Specialist Lisa Spierer, Administrative Specialist
Programs aryn kresol, Arts Residency Programs Coordinator Liz Root, Arts Recruitment Coordinator Kayla McGhee, Arts Outreach and Engagement Coordinator Ammo Eisu, The Studio Program Manager Helen Lee, The Studio Faculty Director* Dominique Haller, The Studio Program Manager*
Integrated Marketing & Communications Kate Lochner, Marketing & Communications Manager Alexander André, Multimedia Designer Aaron Granat, Videographer* Jessamine Burch, Social Media Specialist*
For a current list of staff, visit: artsdivision.wisc.edu/people/staff * denotes part-time staff
Pictured: The Division of the Arts Staff in the Botany Garden, outside Lathrop Hall. Photo by Paige Hovanes.
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COMMITTEES Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) The Academic Affairs Committee provides oversight of the Integrated Arts course subject listing, reviews new Integrated Arts course requests, reviews and ranks Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program proposals, and addresses questions related to arts instruction across all departments at UW–Madison. Meetings were held monthly throughout the academic year. The committee provided selection and input on the Arts Residency Programs and discussed creation of a possible interdisciplinary arts certificate and a potential new major in Design Studies.
Arts Communicators The Arts Communicators group is a community and network for staff working in communications and marketing in the arts at UW– Madison. Meetings were held in September, December, February, and April. Across the year, representation from 15 different departments appeared with an average of 18 attendees per meeting. We hosted two University Communications staff members as guest speakers to engage in discussions around overall campus priorities. The Integrated Marketing and Communications team made connections here which resulted in more extended cross promotional support for the Art Department, the Arts Libraries, the Chazen Museum of Art, the Center for Design and Material Culture, and the Illuminating Discovery Hub.
Arts Recruitment Working Group The Arts Recruitment Working Group works to boost enrollment numbers in the arts. Meetings were held in October, February, April, and May, providing the space to staff and faculty involved in arts recruiting to connect with other departments that they may not usually interface with to share information, knowledge, and best practices with one another. One outcome was creation of a shared calendar for use while planning recruitment-related events in the arts.
Arts Chairs and Directors Council (ACDC) The chairs of all the academic arts departments and directors of cocurricular arts-related units comprise the Arts Chairs and Directors Council. This year, membership was expanded to include leaders of Tandem Press and the Center for Design and Material Culture as well as Associate Deans in the School of Human Ecology. The council is the only venue on campus where all of these arts leaders have the opportunity to connect and focus on their common needs. Meetings were held in August, January, and May, where members learned about new initiatives such as the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives’ post doctorate in the arts, the Division’s 175th Arts at Wisconsin book reprint, the Chazen Mellon Grant for Coordinating Cultural Heritage Collections.
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2022–23 FINANCIAL & IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS (July 1, 2022–June 30, 2023)
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
$25,000+
$5,000–$9,999
Emily Mead Baldwin
The Joyce J. & Gerald A. Bartell Family
Bassett Foundation Anonymous Fund Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment
$10,000–$24,999
$1,000–$4,999 David & Edith Sinaiko Frank Joan Spero and C. Michael Spero Glenn & Edna Wiechers Brittingham Wisconsin Trust
Evjue Foundation International Division
Thank you to all of our supporters.
Pictured: Arts Division Director Chris Walker and Stephanie Jutt, professor emerita and founder of the Arts Business Competition (formerly the New Arts Venture Challenge). Photo: Mats Rudels..
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UW–MADISON ARTS COMMUNITY (AS OF JUNE 30, 2023) For a current list of UW–Madison Arts Community faculty and staff, please visit unit websites.
Art Department art.wisc.edu Faisal Abdu’Allah, Associate Dean & Professor Yeohyun Ahn, Assistant Professor Jennifer Angus, Affiliate Ash Armenta, Lecturer Emily Arthur, Associate Professor John Baldacchino, Professor Lynda Barry, Professor Mercedes Brandt, Undergraduate Programs Assistant* Derrick Buisch, Professor, Department Chair Jeff Butler, Lecturer Anna Campbell, Associate Professor Jill H. Casid, Affiliate Julie Chen, Professor* Laurie Beth Clark, Professor Spencer Cleland, Technician/Instructional Specialist* Matt Coppola, Facilities Manager* Marianne Fairbanks, Affiliate Sarah FitzSimons, Associate Professor Mary Frat, Financial Specialist Lisa Gralnick, Professor^ Gerit Grimm, Associate Professor Oliver Gruebel, Lecturer Mary Hark, Affiliate Kyle Herrera, Lecturer Stephen Hilyard, Professor John Hitchcock, Professor Mary Hoefferle, Faculty Associate Katie Hudnall, Associate Professor Jamie Jacobson, Lecturer Angela Johnson, Lecturer Tom Jones, Professor
Tomiko Jones, Assistant Professor
Leslie Smith III, Associate Professor
Barbara Justice, Lecturer
Fred Stonehouse, Professor
Carolyn Kallenborn, Affiliate
Tina Sweep, Communications Manager
Dale Kaminski, Lecturer
Brett Swenson, Lecturer
Rebecca Kautz, Lecturer
Michael Velliquette, Assistant Professor*
Keith Kaziak, Lecturer
Christina West, Assistant Professor*
Claire Kellesvig, Lecturer
Lin Wilson, Lecturer
Helen Lee, Associate Professor
Ash Woolson, Lecturer
Taekyeom Lee, Assistant Professor*
Tom Zickuhr, Lecturer
Branden Martz, Graduate Program Manager Roberto Torres Mata, Lecturer
Department of Art History
Matthew Mauk, Undergraduate Academic Program
arthistory.wisc.edu
Manager
Faisal Abdu’Allah, Affiliate
Erin McAdams, Technician/Instructional Specialist*
Anna V. Andrzejewski, Professor
Tim McCarty, Department Administrator
William Aylward, Affiliate
Riley Mineart, Lecturer
Steffani Bennett, Assistant Professor*
Meg Mitchell, Associate Professor
Nicholas D. Cahill, Professor
Henrique Nardi, Lecturer
Anna Campbell, Associate Professor
Cate O’Connell-Richards, Lecturer
Katherine Alcauskas, Chief Curator
Hannah O’Hare Bennett, Lecturer
Elizabeth Allman, Museum Guide*
Tim O’Neill, Technician/Instructional Specialist
John Berner, Preparator
Darcy Padilla, Associate Professor
Mariana Cameli, Director of Development*
Michael Peterson, Professor
Claudia Carlson, Museum Guide*
Lucas Pointon, Lecturer
Casey Coolidge, Visitor Services Coordinator
Sarah Reagan, Lecturer
Erin Coron, Visitor Services Assistant*
Evie Richner, Lecturer
Jordan Craig, Multimedia Archivist
Tamsie Ringler, Lecturer
Gianofer Fields, Storyteller in Residence
Douglas Rosenberg, Professor
Rosco Ford, Preparator*
Andy Rubin, Lecturer
Amy Gilman, Director
Heather Schatz, Lecturer
Lindsay Grinstead, Chief of Staff
Elaine Scheer, Professor^
Carolyn Herrera-Perez, Curator of Glass and Ceramics*
Hannah Schelb, Lecturer
Adam Hutchinson, Facility Manager
Elizabeth Sheeler, Lecturer
Anne Johnson, Administrative Specialist*
Chloe Simmons, Lecturer
Lindsay McCarty, Preparator*
*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts | Annual Report | 2022–23
UW–MADISON ARTS COMMUNITY (AS OF JUNE 30, 2023) For a current list of UW–Madison Arts Community faculty and staff, please visit unit websites. Mieke Miller, Academic Coordinator*
Travis Olson, Lecturer
Adam Hutchinson, Facility Manager
Kara Morris, Education Coordinator*
Kristin Phillips-Court, Associate Professor
Anne Johnson, Administrative Specialist*
Jenaille Northey, Retail Coordinator*
Jennifer Pruitt, Associate Professor
Lindsay McCarty, Preparator*
Kirstin Pires, Editor
Jonathan Senchyne, Affiliate
Mieke Miller, Academic Coordinator*
Jamie Prey, Event Coordinator
Daniel Spaulding, Assistant Professor
Kara Morris, Education Coordinator*
Jessica Sayer, Executive Assistant to the Director*
Sarah Stolte, Lecturer*
Jenaille Northey, Retail Coordinator*
Ann Schaffer, Museum Guide*
Joanna Wilson, Lecturer
Kirstin Pires, Editor
Megan Schram, Preparator*
Kirsten Wolf, Department Chair
Jamie Prey, Event Coordinator
Jose Seda, Visitor Services Assistant
Bolz Center for Arts Administration
Ann Schaffer, Museum Guide*
Emma Shore, Preparator
business.wisc.edu/centers/bolz
Megan Schram, Preparator*
Claire Viellieux, Office Manager*
Rebecca Buckman, Associate Director
Jose Seda, Visitor Services Assistant
Kate Wanberg, Exhibition and Collection Project Manager
Russ Coff, Faculty Director
Andrea Selbig, Collections Registrar
Candie Waterloo, Head of Museum Education James Wehn, Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper Tom Wilkowske, Communications Specialist* Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Collection Reinstallation Project Associate Kristine Zickuhr, Chief Operating OfficerSarah Anne
Sarah Marty, Director Angela Richardson, Teaching Faculty David Stewart, Affiliate John Surdyk, Director & INSITE & Entrepreneurship
Carter, Affiliate
Chazen Museum of Art
Jill H. Casid, Professor
chazen.wisc.edu
Preeti Chopra, Professor
Katherine Alcauskas, Chief Curator
Laurie Beth Clark, Affiliate
Elizabeth Allman, Museum Guide*
Thomas E. A. Dale, Professor
John Berner, Preparator
Guillermina De Ferrari, Professor
Mariana Cameli, Director of Development*
Peggy Hacker, Department Administrator
Claudia Carlson, Museum Guide*
Teddy Kaul, Student Services
Casey Coolidge, Visitor Services Coordinator
Adam L. Kern, Affiliate
Erin Coron, Visitor Services Assistant*
Yuhang Li, Associate Professor
Jordan Craig, Multimedia Archivist
Nancy Rose Marshall, Professor
Gianofer Fields, Storyteller in Residence
Jane McCarthy, Administrative Assistant
Rosco Ford, Preparator*
Marina Moskowitz, Affiliate
Amy Gilman, Director
Steve Nadler, Affiliate
Lindsay Grinstead, Chief of Staff
Jennifer Nelson, Assistant Professor
Carolyn Herrera-Perez, Curator of Glass and Ceramics*
*New Arts Hire ^Retiree
Jessica Sayer, Executive Assistant to the Director*
Andrea Selbig, Collections Registrar
Emma Shore, Preparator Claire Viellieux, Office Manager* Kate Wanberg, Exhibition and Collection Project Manager Candie Waterloo, Head of Museum Education James Wehn, Van Vleck Curator of Works on Paper Tom Wilkowske, Communications Specialist* Janine Yorimoto Boldt, Collection Reinstallation Project Associate Kristine Zickuhr, Chief Operating Officer
UW Cinematheque cinema.wisc.edu John Bennett, Project Assistant Kelley Conway, Faculty Advisor Jim Healy, Director of Cinematheque Film Programming Michael King, Academic Curator Ben Reiser, Outreach Specialist
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Department of Communication Arts
Yalitza Ferreras, Post-Doc*
Andrea Harris, Associate Professor, Department Chair
commarts.wisc.edu
Nitya Gupta, Teaching Assistant*
Morgan Hayes, Dancer*
Anirban Baishya, Assistant Professor*
Rachel Hawley, Teaching Assistant*
Claude Heintz, Technical Director
Kelley Conway, Professor
Joshua Kalscheur, Lecturer
Elisa Hildner, Dancer*
Jonathan Gray, Professor
Phoebe Kranefuss, Teaching Assistant*
Ariel “AJ” Juarez, Lecturer
Aaron Greer, Associate Professor
Ron Kuka, Teaching Faculty III, Program Coordinator
Maya Kadakia, Lecturer
Erik Gunneson, Faculty Associate
Gabriel Louis, Lecturer*
Kevin Knapp, Musician
Steffie Halverson, Undergraduate Advisor
Nate Marshall, Assistant Professor*
Rena Kornblum, Teaching Faculty, Dance-Movement
Sophie Hougland, Administrative Assistant III*
Noreen McAuliffe, Lecturer
Therapy Program Director
Eric Hoyt, Professor
Erika Meitner, Professor*
Kelby Kryshak, Musician
Derek Johnson, Professor, Department Chair
Dantiel W. Moniz, Assistant Professor
Kelly Kwiatkowski, Communications Manager
Jason Kido Lopez, Assistant Professor
Beth Nguyen, Professor
Chiao-Ping Li, Professor
Lori Lopez, Associate Professor
Chessy Normile, Post-Doc*
Kelsey Macomber, Lecturer
Lynn Malone, Department Administrator
Aeron Parks, Teaching Assistant*
Mandjou Mara, Musician
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Assistant Professor
Amanda Rizkalla, Teaching Assistant*
Karen Mcshane-Hellenbrand, Teaching Faculty,
Jeremy Morris, Associate Professor
Porter Shreve, Professor, Director
Undergraduate Advisor
Ben Reiser, Wisconsin Film Festival Director of Operations
Taymour Soomro, Post-Doc*
Chell Parkins, Arnhold Director of Dance Education*
Mary Rossa, Undergraduate Advisor
Robert Sorrell, Teaching Assistant*
Michelle Ramos, Lecturer
Ken Sabbar, User Support Specialist III
Paul Tran, Assistant Professor*
Rebecca Reynolds, Building Manager*
Amy Schultz, Digital Certificate Advisor
Katherine Zlabek, Lecturer
Sally Roedl, Administrative Assistant II
Peter Sengstock, Teaching, Learning, & Tech Manager
Tim Russell, Teaching Faculty, Music Director
Ben Singer, Associate Professor
Dance Department
Mariel Schneider, Dancer*
Pratibha Singh, Financial Specialist*
dance.wisc.edu
Liz Sexe, Lecturer
Jeffrey Smith, Professor
Alex Bassi, Musician*
Marlene Skog, Assistant Professor
Andrew Bocher, Musician
Jeff Stanek, Musician
Creative Writing Program
Peggy Choy, Associate Professor
Collette Stewart, Teaching Faculty, Pilates Program
creativewriting.wisc.edu
Kate Corby, Professor
Director
Amy Quan Barry, Professor
Aubry Dalley, Instructor*
Denzel Taylor, First Wave Teaching Artist*
Sean Bishop, Teaching Faculty IV, Program Administrator
Christopher James Dibernardo, Musician
Chris Walker, Professor
Jacqueline Chalghin, Teaching Assistant*
Emily Eckman, Athletic Trainer
Jin-Wen Yu, Professor
Steven Espada Dawson, Post-Doc*
Aaron Granat, Videographer*
Natalia Zervou, Assistant Professor *New Arts Hire ^Retiree
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts | Annual Report | 2022–23 | APPENDIX
UW–MADISON ARTS COMMUNITY (AS OF JUNE 30, 2023) For a current list of UW–Madison Arts Community faculty and staff, please visit unit websites.
Center for Design and Material Culture cdmc.wisc.edu Sarah Anne Carter, Executive Director, Associate Professor Carolyn Jenkinson, Collections Manager
Abigail Putnam, Academic Program Specialist* Lesley Sager, Teaching Faculty Majid Sarmadi, Professor^ Jung-hye Shin, Professor, Department Chair Uchita Vaid, Assistant Professor
Dakota Mace, Photographer*
Trudy Watt, Academic Director, Master of Science in
Sophie Pitman, Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist and
Design and Innovation*
Research Director* Laura Sims Peck, Operations Manager
Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies
Roberto Torres Mata, Preparator*
dept.english.wisc.edu/intertheatrestudies Sandra Adell, Professor
Design Studies Department
Karen Britland, Professor
humanecology.wisc.edu/academics/departments/design-
Margaret Butler, Associate Professor
studies
Joshua Calhoun, Associate Professor
Jennifer Angus, Professor Sarah Anne Carter, Associate Professor; Executive Director, Center for Design & Material Culture Yeonhee Cheong, Lecturer Kirsten Coe, Lecturer* Wei Dong, Professor Holly Easland, Lecturer Marianne Fairbanks, Associate Professor Brooke Godfrey, Teaching Faculty Erin Hamilton, Assistant Professor* Mary Hark, Professor Sara Holwerda, Lecturer* Elizabeth Hooper-Lane, Lecturer Keith Kaziak, Studio Technician* Maria Kurutz, Teaching Faculty^ Jennifer Meyers, Lecturer Kate Morrick, Lecturer* Marina Moskowitz, Professor Kevin Ponto, Associate Professor *New Arts Hire ^Retiree
Jill H. Casid, Professor Laurie Beth Clark, Professor Susan C. Cook, Professor Aparna Dharwadker, Professor Christine Garlough, Professor Sabine Gross, Professor Erica Halverson, Professor Maksim Hanukai, Assistant Professor Andrea Harris, Associate Professor Paola S. Hernández, Leadership Laura McClure, Professor James McMaster, Assistant Professor Frederic Neyrat, Associate Professor Michael Peterson, Professor Jen Plants, Teaching Faculty III Mary Trotter, Associate Professor, Program Director Michael Vanden Heuvel, Professor Mark Vareschi, Associate Professor Natalie Zervou, Assistant Professor
Mead Witter School of Music music.wisc.edu Lyle Anderson, Carillion Performer Gary Barnes, Accountant Suzanne Beia, Artist in Residence Dan Brice, Music Instrument Shop Manager Harry Browne, Videographer Anne Brutosky, Department Administrator Margaret Butler, Associate Professor Javier Calderon, Professor Nadia Chana, Assistant Professor Sally Chisholm, Professor, Artist in Residence Susan C. Cook, Director, Professor Tom Curry, Teaching Faculty Mariana De Oliveira Farah, Associate Professor, Director of Choral Activities Anthony Di Sanza, Professor Teryl Dobbs, Professor^ James Doing, Professor^ James Doing, Jr, Graduate Program Manager Ben Dombkowski, Administrative Assistant* Peter Dominguez, Professor Marina Drake, Graduate Program Coordinator Matt Endres, Teaching Faculty Martha Fischer, Professor, Associate Director Lindsay Flowers, Assistant Professor Mimmi Fulmer, Professor Bruce Gladstone, Teaching Faculty Alexander Gonzalez, Teaching Faculty Dan Grabois, Associate Professor Todd Hammes, Teaching Specialist Brian Heller, Event Associate Director Mark Hetzler, Professor
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Brian Hyer, Professor^
Oriol Sans, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral
Jared Jellison, Undergrad Admissions and Recruitment
Activities
Coordinator
Julia Schmidt, Financial Specialist
Jess Johnson, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Ilana Schroeder, Lecturer*
Wendy Johnson, Administrative Associate Director
Laura Schwendinger, Professor
Perry Karp, Professor
Greg Silver, Technical Director
Thomas Kasdorf, Teaching Faculty
Christopher Taylor, Professor
Lance Ketterer, Production Engineer
Scott Teeple, Professor, Director of Bands
Matt Koester, Teaching Faculty
Les Thimmig, Professor
Jean Laurenz, Assistant Professor
Mark Ultsch, Instrument Repair and Restore Tech
Alicia Lee, Assistant Professor
Marc Vallon, Professor
Lina Lee, Lecturer*
Andrew Vaudt, Payroll Specialist
Amy Lewis, Post-Doctoral Fellow*
James Waldo, Lecturer
Baoli Liu, Music Instrument Shop Manager
Johannes Wallmann, Professor, Director of Jazz Studies
Chad McCullough, Lecturer
John Walsh, Lecturer*
Luci Mok, Lecturer
Michael Weinstein-Reiman, Associate Professor
Nick Moran, Lecturer*
Diana Wheeler, Academic Advisor Assistant Director
Jason Moy, Lecturer*
Johanna Wienholts, Teaching Faculty
Eric Murtaugh, Communications Manager
Dawn Wohn, Teaching Faculty
Conor Nelson, Associate Professor* Olivia Nelson, Administrative Assistant
Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives
Kerry O’Neill, Facilities Technician
omai.wisc.edu
Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture dpla.wisc.edu David Bart, Professor Edward Boswell, Teaching Faculty Tori Cooper, Financial Specialist Robert de Roos, User Support Specialist III Samuel Dennis Jr., Professor Edna Ely-Ledesma, Assistant Professor Ken Genskow, Professor Deborah Griffin, Academic Advising Manager Doug Hadley, Senior Lecturer Evelyn Howell, Professor Shawn Kelly, Distinguished Faculty Associate James LaGro Jr., Professor Nathan Larson, Teaching Faculty Dave Marcoullier, Professor Carolyn McAndrews, Professor Alfonso Morales, Professor, Department Chair Brian Ohm, Professor Majiedah Pasha, Department Administrator Kurt Paulsen, Professor
Louka Patenaude, Lecturer
Savion Castro, Program Assistant
David Perry, Professor
Cydney Edwards, Assistant Director*
Dan Petersen, Outreach Program Coordinator
Gia Euler-Plath, Academic Advisor
Corey Pompey, Marching Band Director, Director of Athletic
Mark H, Faculty Artistic Director*
Bands
Erica Neal, Administrative Specialist
Eugene Purdue, Teaching Faculty
Nia Scott, Digital Media Manager*
Todd Reck, Undergrad Academic Advising Manager
Salima Seale, Technical Events Director*
Tandem Press
Walter Rich, Instructional Administrator
Sofía Snow, Director
tandempress.wisc.edu
David Ronis, Associate Professor, Director of Opera
Hazel Symonette, Evaluation Facilitator
Joe Freye, Collaborative Printmaker
Thomas Ross, Teaching Specialist
Denzel Taylor, First Wave Arts Education Program
Rachael Griffin, Administrative Manager
Julia Rottmayer, Teaching Faculty
Specialist*
Seth Klekamp, Preparator
Paul Rowe, Professor
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Amy Rivera, Graduate Coordinator Eric Schuchardt, Teaching Faculty, Chair Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program Revel Sims, Professor James Steiner, Senior Lecturer
J Myszka Lewis, Curator *New Arts Hire ^Retiree
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts | Annual Report | 2022–23
UW–MADISON ARTS COMMUNITY (AS OF JUNE 30, 2023) For a current list of UW–Madison Arts Community faculty and staff, please visit unit websites. Paula McCarthy Panczenko, Director Sona Pastel-Daneshgar, Curator Jason Ruhl, Collaborative Printmaker Patrick Smyczek, Collaborative Printmaker
Department of Theatre and Drama theatre.wisc.edu Aly Amidei, Assistant Professor* Jahana Azodi, Teaching Faculty II Ryan Bertelson, Teaching Specialist, Technical Director Terri Bonner, Department Administrator Colleen Conroy, Assistant Professor Kate Corby, Department Chair Robin Fisher, Academic Program Specialist Jim Greco, Costume Studio Supervisor; Teaching Faculty III Mark H, Assistant Professor Clare Haden, Lecturer Angela Hause, Teaching Specialist Shannon Heibler, Artist: Costume Cindi Henige, Financial Specialist II Danny Jones, Lecturer Baron Kelly, Professor Jessica Lanius, Lecturer Dan Lisowski, Associate Professor Neil Mills, Assistant Professor Dawn Mohoney, Administrative Assistant II Megan Reilly, Assistant Professor Scot Shepley, Box Office Manager Audrey Standish, Lecturer James Stauffer, Teaching Faculty III Robert Wagner, Teaching Faculty III Connor Wiedenbeck, Teaching Specialist
Center for Visual Cultures cvc.wisc.edu Faisal Abdu’Allah, Affiliate Mercedes Alcala Galan, Affiliate Anna Andrzekewski, Affiliate Jennifer Angus, Affiliate Anirban Baishya, Leadership Kata Beilin, Affiliate Ksenija Bilbija, Affiliate Anthony Devon Black, Affiliate Gudrun Buhnemann, Affiliate Anna Campbell, Affiliate Sarah Anne Carter, Leadership Jill H. Casid, Leadership Sara Champlin, Affiliate Preeti Chopra, Affiliate Laurie Beth Clark, Professor, Director Kelley Conway, Affiliate Susan C. Cook, Affiliate Thomas E. A. Dale, Affiliate Guillermina De Ferrari, Affiliate Theresa Delgadillo, Affiliate Joseph Dennis, Affiliate Samuel Dennis Jr., Affiliate Vinay Dharwadker, Affiliate Wei Dong, Affiliate Juan F. Egea, Affiliate Falina Enriquez, Affiliate Ramzi Fawaz, Affiliate Christine Garlough, Leadership Victor Goldgel-Carballo, Affiliate Sabine Gross, Affiliate Dawnene Hassett, Affiliate
Paola S. Hernández, Leadership Stephen Hilyard, Affiliate John Hitchcock, Affiliate Eric Hoyt, Affiliate Emery Jenson, Program Assistant Adam L. Kern, Affiliate Elizabeth Lapina, Affiliate Mary N. Layoun, Affiliate Nancy Rose Marshall, Affiliate Ruben Medina, Affiliate Gregg Mitman, Affiliate Frederic Neyrat, Affiliate Lynn Nyhart, Affiliate Christa Olson, Affiliate Darcy Padilla, Affiliate Lee Palmer Wandel, Affiliate Michael Peterson, Affiliate Jennifer Pruitt, Affiliate Steve Ridgely, Affiliate Douglas Rosenberg, Affiliate Patrick Rumble, Leadership Ellen W. Sapega, Affiliate Ben Singer, Affiliate Aliko Songolo, Affiliate Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Affiliate Mary Trotter, Affiliate M. Ty, Affiliate Mike Vanden Heuvel, Affiliate Mark Vareschi, Affiliate Sarah Ann Wells, Leadership Keith Woodward, Affiliate
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Wheelhouse Studio union.wisc.edu/events-and-activities/open-artstudio-and-classes Amy Guthier, Community Engagement Director & Wheelhouse Studio Director Gabrielle Javier-Cerulli, Wheelhouse Studios Program Director Gloria Van Dixhorn, Head Ceramicist Tony Wise, Wheelhouse Studios Operations Director
Wisconsin Union Theater union.wisc.edu/visit/wisconsin-union-theater Sean Danner, Box Office Manager Ana Gonzalez Clark, Stagehand (TE) Will Griffin, Ticketing Website & Systems Administrator* Rebecca Hayes, Stagehand (TE) Epiphany Holmstock, Administrative Assistant (TE) Heather Macheel, Technical Director (Shannon Hall) Jeff Macheel, Technical Director (Play Circle) Christina Majchrzak, Campus Arts Ticketing Director* Kendra Ramthun, General Manager Kate Schwartz, Artist Services Manager Elizabeth Snodgrass, Wisconsin Union Theater Director
Pictured: UW–Dance students perform at “Moonshine,” at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall, February 24, 2023. Photo: Mats Rudels.
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Pictured: “Formless,” an Artivism Student Action Program award recipient, held their second annual artivism event in March 2023. “Formless,” featured a variety of performances, adapted to their performance space, “creatively building a space of our own.” Photo: Audrey O’Neill.
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