Arts and Culture

Projects

• American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online

  At least a dozen Wisconsin counties have had outreach presentations from the American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online project of UW–Madison...

• Applied Learning Projects (ALPs) for Bolz Center for Arts Administration students

  Graduate students in the Bolz Center for Arts Administration participate in hands-on projects with leading nonprofit arts and cultural institutions an...

• Art graduate connects campus, schools with outreach endowment

  Developed by Tom Loeser and funded by Helen Burish, these art workshops seek to provide high school art teachers with hands-on professional developmen...

• Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

  Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society is an independent, summer chamber music festival. Its performances are in June each year, and take place in Madison...

• Bad River Global Health/Tribal Youth Program

  This program is a field course in the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health (UCGH). It connects UW-Madison with people in programs on the Bad Riv...

• Belgian-American Research Collection

  One of the country's largest concentrations of Walloon-speaking Belgians is found in northeastern Wisconsin, resulting in a unique cultural and social...

• Best. Friday. Ever. event series

  At Allen Centennial Garden we believe gardeners, through their gardens, can save the world. Best. Friday. Ever. embraces the Wisconsin Idea and celebr...

• Books about Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin

  The University of Wisconsin Press has published several books about Frank Lloyd Wright that contribute to the international interest in Wright that br...

• Chazen Museum of Art Online Collection Database

  In the spirit of the Wisconsin Idea, the Chazen Museum of Art has virtually opened its doors to allow access to its entire collection of over 24,000 a...

• Collegiate Poetry Slam

  The fourth annual Collegiate Poetry Slam, held by the Multicultural Student Coalition, creates a unique space on campus for UW-Madison students, facul...

• Cultural mediator for Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities

  Mark Louden, Professor of German and Director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, is a cultural mediator for the Amish and Old Orde...

• Deadly Writers Patrol

  UW-Madison Professor Craig Werner works with this Vietnam veterans writing group, which does public readings and puts out a magazine featuring veteran...

• Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)

  The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE, 1985-2013, Harvard University Press) documents the language of the American people, recording the w...

• Drawing Water: Engaging Community through Art and Science in Northern Wisconsin

  Beginning in 2021, a new partnership between scientists, artists, and students is forming through Drawing Water: Engaging Community through Art and Sc...

• Evenings of American Indian Storytelling

  Each winter, the American Indian Studies program at UW-Madison joins the Wunk Sheek student group in hosting the Annual Evenings of American Indian St...

• Exploring interfaces between science and the humanities

  Carrie Roy, post-doctorate coordinator of Humanities Research Bridge, was one of the dozen winners of the Emerging Interface Awards from the Wisconsin...

• Faculty Ensemble Outreach

  The three faculty ensembles from the Mead Witter School of Music, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, Wingra Wind Quintet, and Pro Arte Quartet offer student...

• Fibers of Our Future

  4-H Educator Rachel Hart-Brinson, Associate Professor of Design Marianne Fairbanks, and Outreach Specialist Tom Zinnen collaborated to develop educati...

• French 595: Theory and Practice of French & Francophone Drama

  Every other year, students enrolled in the French theatre course 595 produce a full-length play in French that is performed in one of the UW-Madison c...

• German Words—American Voices

  Drawing on recently digitized interviews from the North American German Dialect Archive at the UW–Madison Max Kade Institute, "German Words, American...

• GLS Center Playsquads

  Through games, the Games Learning Society Center makes scientific discovery visible to the public by creating digital games for learning science. Whil...

• Grammar Badgers

  Website created by students that explains linguistic research to the public. It addresses questions around grammar usage, American dialects, language...

• Great Lakes Maritime History Project

  Wisconsin has a proud and colorful history, and one of its richest and most romantic chapters is its maritime history, staged on the waters of Lake Mi...

• Great World Texts

  Great World Texts is a program of the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities. It creates a relationship between scholars at the university and high scho...

• Great World Texts in Wisconsin

  Great World Texts in Wisconsin connects scholars at UW-Madison with thousands of high school students and teachers in dozens of school districts throu...

• How German Is American? Poster and Interpretive Brochure Project

  Free outreach events in seven Wisconsin counties were held for the How German is American? project, for which UW-Madison faculty and staff produced a...

• Impact Consulting for Arts-Based Organizations and Communities

  Graduate students in the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, housed in the Wisconsin School of Business, serve statewide communities and their creati...

• Learning to Make Running Water Walk

  The Learning to Make Running Water Walk Oral Narrative Project is a partnership between the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, Inc. (CCCWC), UW-M...

• Linguistic Voices on Campus

  Linguistic Voices on Campusis a podcast series, in which Anja Wanner invites scholars and students from the UW-Madison to discuss common beliefs abou...

• Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Volunteer

  Professor Janet Jensen has been volunteering with one of the younger Milwaukee Youth Symphony orchestras, Sinfonia, during their rehearsals on Thursda...

• Mini Music Clinics

  Students in grades 9–12 who play wind, string, and percussion instruments are invited to join us on the UW–Madison campus for a challenging, fast-pace...

• Neighbors Past and Present: The Wisconsin German Experience

  With generous funding from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, the Max Kade Institute has produced this traveling exhibit, “Neighbors Past and Present:...

• Nonprofit Board Leadership and Development

  This course is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to serve on nonprofit boards, learn about the roles and responsibilities of bo...

• Oakhill Prison Humanities Project

  OPHP is a collective of volunteers who provide educational programming to individuals incarcerated at Oakhill Correctional Institution, a minimum-secu...

• Paper on the Law of Intellectual Property Exhaustion

  Extending the Wisconsin idea of engaged scholarship globally, this project entailed preparing a comprehensive study of the rights to resell and reuse...

• Partnering with the Hmong Community to Build Better Medical Translation Tools and Preserve Hmong Narratives to Reduce Health Disparities

  The Hmong experience many health disparities. An important step toward addressing these health disparities is overcoming poor communication, language...

• Pennsylvania Dutch Documentation Project

  Pennsylvania Dutch is one of America's oldest thriving heritage languages, spoken by over 300,000 people, mainly Old Order Amish. Wisconsin, with the...

• Pro Arte Quartet and UW Arts Outreach

  Each year the Pro Arte Quartet makes a minimum of ten excursions throughout Wisconsin. These excursions range from recitals at arts venues to performa...

• Public Archaeology: Unearthing Wisconsin's First Town in Trempealeau, WI/ The Trempealeau Interpretive Path (TRIP)

  The Trempealeau Interpretive Path (TRIP) is a series of three inter-­connected exhibit venues that explores the unique archaeology of the Trempealeau...

• Public Folk Arts and Folklife Projects in the Upper Midwest

  The Public Folk Arts and Folklife Projects of the Upper Midwest series of project collection guides highlights public folklore field documentation und...

• Public Humanities Exchange

  In 2005, the Center for the Humanities began supporting a select number of graduate student projects, convened outside the boundaries of academia. Eac...

• Public Humanities Fellowship

  The Center for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Fellowship Program provides humanities graduate students with enriching experiences outside of academ...

• Recollection Wisconsin

  The mission of Recollection Wisconsin is to create opportunities for people to discover personal connections to the past. Our program offers free acce...

• Retrofitting Latinxs into the Wisconsin Historical Narrative

  Latina/o/xs have a long-rooted presence in Wisconsin but their histories are largely absent in institutional archives. To provide more visibility to L...

• SoundWaves

  Professor Daniel Grabois created the SoundWaves series in 2012 as a way to bring scientific knowledge and music to the Madison community. SoundWaves e...

• Student Hometown Projects - Cross Plains

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Student Hometown Projects - Green Bay

  Four undergraduate students have been given the opportunity to identify and solve an issue in their hometowns by partnering with a community organizat...

• Summer Music Clinics

  The week-long UW–Madison School of Music clinics feature performance and skill-building classes in music, band, orchestra, choir, musical theater and...

• Syntax Untangler

  "Teach your students how to figure out tricky texts in any language." UW-Madison released Syntax Untangler for public use in August 2011. This is an o...

• Teacher Training Workshop: The Hmong in Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Appleton/Madison)

  In June 2013, UW-Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for East Asian Studies collaborated with the Appleton, Oshkosh, and Madison H...

• The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolas Ailio and the Chilean State

  Professor Florencia Mallon carried out a collaborative ethnography with the people of the Mapuche community of Nicolas Ailior and the Chilean State. S...

• The NonViolence Project

  The Nonviolence Project is a comprehensive repository that educates and informs viewers on the impact of nonviolent protests all over the world. From...

• The Quill literary journal

  The Quill, a literary journal for middle school and high school students in Green Bay, was one of four projects selected by the Wisconsin Open Educati...

• The UW Historic Aerial Photography of Wisconsin Project

  The UW Map Library owns an extensive and popular collection of historic aerial photography of Wisconsin, dating back to the 1930s. The project will pr...

• Uncovering Ancient Life at Aztalan: New Explorations at One of Wisconsin’s Most Important Prehistoric Native American Communities

  Aztalan State Park, outside of Lake Mills, WI, was inhabited by two distinct groups of Native Americans nearly a millennium ago. Over three years, we...

• UniverCity Year

  UniverCity Year is a three-year partnership between UW–Madison and Wisconsin communities. In year one, the community partner identifies projects that...

• UniverCity Year - Wisconsin Rapids

  UniverCity and Wisconsin Rapids partnered from 2019 through 2022. The partnership focused on branding, marketing, economic development, and arts and h...

• UW Cinematheque

  The Cinematheque is dedicated to showcasing the best in international cinema history and contemporary movies which would otherwise never reach Madison...

• UW Press

  The UW Press publishes books (including ebooks) for Wisconsin and internationally. Visit https://uwpress.wisc.edu/WIRegional.html for a small sampling...

• UW South Madison Partnership

  The UW South Madison Partnership (UWSMP) is a UW–Madison initiative designed to meet the South Madison community’s needs and foster mutually beneficia...

• UW–Madison Oral History Program

  The UW–Madison Oral History Program seeks to gather, provide, and provide access to in-depth, historical interviews with current and former UW–Madison...

• Western Wisconsin Cultural Initiative

  This program helped enrich the musical offerings of several rural school districts in western Wisconsin by way of a brass trio ensemble, school progra...

• Wheelhouse Studios - Wisconsin Union

  Wheelhouse Studios provides hands-on, multi-layered engagement opportunities in the arts, including ceramics, photography, drawing, painting and more....

• Wiigwaasi-Jiimaan: These Canoes Carry Culture

  Wayne Valliere was the Windgate artist in residence from September to November 2013. He built a birchbark canoe in the woodshop in the Art Department,...

• Wisconsin 101: Our History in Objects

  Wisconsin 101 is a statewide collaborative public history project based on an interactive website (wi101.wisc.edu) and featuring radio programs and po...

• Wisconsin Film Festival

  The Wisconsin Film Festival is presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts in association with the Department of Communication Arts. Founded in 1...

• Wisconsin Folksong Collection

  The Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, represents materials from two collections housed in three discrete but closely related repositories. Th...

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

  From Feburary 3, 2012 to February 15, 2013, a group of 31 community leaders from all over the state convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an...

• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center

  The Town Center, located on the main floor of the Discovery building, welcomes visitors to Explore.Engage.Discover and fits with both the campus strat...

• Wisconsin Regional Artist Program

  The Wisconsin Regional Art Program (WRAP) provides statewide art workshops and exhibits for nonprofessional artists. It was begun in 1940 (by the nati...

• Wisconsin Science Festival

  The weeklong Wisconsin Science Festival features events throughout Wisconsin for people of all ages. Activities include hands-on science experiments,...

• Wisconsin Singers Performances, Workshops and Outreach

  Since 1967, Wisconsin Singers has been traveling to more than 35 communities annually, helping service organizations and music booster groups raise do...

• Wisconsin Union Theater

  For more than 75 years, the Wisconsin Union Theater (WUT) has been a center for cultural activity in the heart of campus. Through a student-led commit...

• World Cinema Day

  World Cinema Day is a free, annual event held in conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival that brings high-school and middle-school students and t...

• Writers' Institute Conference

  In this award-winning national program, named one of the best writing conferences in the country by THE WRITER magazine, the latest information in wri...